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Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

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    3:24p
    Jansson: On the Graying of GNOME
    Hans Petter Jansson has done an
    analysis of contributions to the GNOME project
    , raising some concerns
    about how well the project is doing at bringing in new developers for the
    long haul. "According to this, GNOME peaked at slightly above 1,400
    contributors in 2010 and went into decline with the GNOME 3.0 release the
    following year. However, 2020 saw the most contributors in a long time,
    even with preliminary data — there’s still two weeks to go. Who knows if
    it’s an anomaly or not. It’s been an atypical year across the
    board.
    "
    4:30p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (mingw-openjpeg2, openjpeg2, and synergy), openSUSE (audacity and gdm), Oracle (libexif, libpq, and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox, gnutls, go-toolset:rhel8, java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, kernel, kernel-rt, linux-firmware, mariadb-connector-c, mariadb:10.3, memcached, net-snmp, nginx:1.16, nodejs:12, openssl, pacemaker, postgresql:10, python-django-horizon, python-XStatic-Bootstrap-SCSS, python-XStatic-jQuery, and python-XStatic-jQuery224), Scientific Linux (gd, kernel, pacemaker, python-rtslib, samba, and targetcli), SUSE (openssh, PackageKit, spice, and spice-gtk), and Ubuntu (firefox and imagemagick).
    4:35p
    Two stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.9.15 and 5.4.84 have been released. They both contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    6:55p
    GTK 4.0
    Version 4.0 of the GTK toolkit has been released. "It is
    impossible to summarize 4 years of development in a single post. We’ve
    written detailed articles about many of the new things in this release over
    the past year: Data
    transfers
    , Event
    controllers
    , Layout
    managers
    , Render
    nodes
    , Media
    playback
    , Scalable
    lists
    , Shaders, Accessibility.
    " GTK 2 has reached the end of its life.
    7:34p
    [$] Speeding up CPython
    Python, at least in the CPython reference implementation, is not a
    particularly speedy language. That is not at all
    surprising to anyone who has used it—the language is optimized for
    understandability and development speed, instead. There have been lots of
    efforts over the years to speed up various parts of the interpreter,
    compiler, and virtual-machine bytecode execution, though no comprehensive
    overhaul has been merged into CPython. An interesting new proposal could
    perhaps change that, though it is unclear at this point if
    it will take off.

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