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Monday, December 14th, 2020

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    12:08a
    The 5.10 kernel has been released
    Linus has released the 5.10 kernel. "I pretty much always wish that the last week was even calmer than it was, and that's true here too. There's a fair amount of fixes in here, including a few last-minute reverts for things that didn't get fixed, but nothing makes me go 'we need another week'. Things look fairly normal."

    Significant changes in this release include support for the Arm memory tagging extension, restricted rings for io_uring, sleepable BPF programs, the process_madvise() system call, ext4 "fast commits", and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 5.10 page for more details.

    4:02p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (lxml, openexr, openssl, and openssl1.0), Fedora (libpri, libxls, mediawiki, nodejs, opensc, php-wikimedia-assert, php-zordius-lightncandy, squeezelite, and wireshark), openSUSE (curl, openssh, openssl-1_0_0, python-urllib3, and rpmlint), Red Hat (libexif, libpq, and thunderbird), Slackware (p11), SUSE (kernel, Kubernetes, etcd, helm, openssl, openssl-1_0_0, and python), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon, and linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi).
    8:32p
    Stable kernel 5.10.1 released
    The 5.10.1 stable kernel update has been
    released on an expedited schedule; it contains reverts for a couple of
    late-arriving 5.10 patches that turned out not to be as good an idea as it
    first seemed.
    8:46p
    [$] Statistics from the 5.10 kernel development cycle
    Linus Torvalds released
    the 5.10 kernel on December 13 at the end of a typical nine-week development cycle.
    At that point, 16,174 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the
    mainline; that makes 5.10 a larger cycle than 5.9, but it falls just short
    of the record set by 5.8, which ended with 16,308 changesets. For the most
    part 5.10 is just
    another routine kernel release, but there are a couple of interesting
    things to be seen in the overall statistics.

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