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Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
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Event |
| 3:16p |
Qt 6.0 released Version 6.0 of the Qt interface framework is available. " Qt 6.0 is a starting point for
the next generation of Qt. It is not yet as feature-complete as 5.15, but
we will fill the gaps within the months to come. We've done a lot of
important work in laying out the foundations of the next version of
Qt. Many of those changes might not be immediately visible, but I firmly
believe they will help keep Qt competitive in the years to come." Changes include moving to C++17, the completion of the Unicode transition, a move away from OpenGL to a new internal rendering interface, additional 3D capabilities, and more. | | 3:29p |
CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream Red Hat has announced
an end to the CentOS distribution as we know it. CentOS will be replaced
by "CentOS Stream", which looks like a sort of beta test for changes going
into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Support for CentOS 7 will continue as
scheduled, but support for CentOS 8 will go away at the end of 2021.
" When CentOS Linux 8 (the rebuild of RHEL8) ends, your best option
will be to migrate to CentOS Stream 8, which is a small delta from CentOS
Linux 8, and has regular updates like traditional CentOS Linux releases. If
you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concerned
that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contact
Red Hat about options."
More information can be found in this FAQ. "CentOS Stream
will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. Generally speaking, we
expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHEL
until those packages make it into the RHEL release."
Update: see also this
blog post from Chris Wright. | | 4:35p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (minidlna, openssl, and trafficserver), Mageia (oniguruma, php-pear, python, python3, and x11vnc), openSUSE (minidlna), Oracle (kernel and net-snmp), Red Hat (kernel, mariadb-galera, microcode_ctl, and net-snmp), Slackware (seamonkey), SUSE (thunderbird and xen), and Ubuntu (xorg-server). | | 5:22p |
Four stable kernels Stable kernels 5.9.13, 5.4.82, 4.19.162, and 4.14.211 have been released. They contain important fixes and users should upgrade. | | 10:18p |
[$] Fedora and its editions Fedora has long had Workstation and Server editions and, back in August, added an edition for Internet of
Things (IoT) devices. Those editions target different use cases for the distribution, as does the CoreOS "spin" (or "emerging edition"), which targets cloud and Kubernetes deployments. A proposal to elevate Fedora CoreOS to a full edition as part of Fedora 34 was recently discussed on the Fedora devel mailing list. As part of that, what it means for a distribution to be part of Fedora was discussed as well. | | 11:01p |
GNU autoconf-2.70 released GNU Autoconf 2.70 is out. " Noteworthy changes include support for the
2011 revisions of the C and C++ standards, support for reproducible
builds, improved support for cross-compilation, improved compatibility
with current compilers and shell utilities, more efficient generated
shell code, and many bug fixes." See this article for more information on what has been happening with Autoconf. |
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