Friday, December 25th, 2020

Time	Event
2:14p	Security updates for Friday Security updates have been issued by Fedora (xen) and SUSE (flac and openexr). (Comment on this)
2:47p	Xfce 4.16 released After more than a year's work, Xfce has announced the 4.16 release of the desktop. Highlights include window manager improvements, a new statustray panel plugin, fractional scaling, settings manager improvements, and lots more. "One of the corner-stones of the non-code changes concerns our migration to GitLab, which is a change in development workflow and a huge step forward in terms of becoming more contributor-friendly and welcoming. In parts, the humungous changelog of Xfce 4.16 can be attributed to new contributors proposing merge requests (288 merge requests were merged or closed against our core components alone!)." (Comment on this)
2:55p	In memoriam of Karsten Loesing (Tor blog) The Tor project is mourning Karsten Loesing, who died on December 18. "Karsten was part of the Tor community for 13 years and an amazing, smart, thoughtful, and gentle person who has touched us all. Over the course of these years we saw him not only grow as a colleague at Tor but as a father to his family. His positive, attentive, and kind presence helped us grow as people as well. Dr. Karsten Loesing joined Tor in 2007 as a Google Summer of Code student to work on Distributed Tor Directory, and earned his PhD in Computer Science at Germany’s University of Bamberg in 2009 on a Tor-related topic, 'Distributed Storage for Tor Hidden Service Descriptors [PDF]'." (Comment on this)
3:04p	Release of GnuCOBOL 3.1.2 Its existence may come as a bit of a surprise to some, but the GnuCOBOL project has released version 3.1.2 as a successor to GnuCOBOL 2.2 after three years of improvements. "GnuCOBOL is a free, modern COBOL compiler. It translates COBOL into intermediate C and compiles the code using a native C compiler (preferably GCC, but not limited to it). [...] some of the highlights: Huge improvements for compatibility to different COBOL dialects, better error handling and adjustable exceptions per COBOL 2002; more modern format for diagnostic messages (especially useful when used in an integrated development environment possible in Emacs, Vim, VSCodium and others) and improved source-level debugging." More information about the new features in the release can be found in the NEWS file, which is attached to the release announcement below. (Comment on this)
5:42p	Ruby 3.0.0 Ruby 3.0.0 has been released. "From 2015 we developed hard toward Ruby 3, whose goal is performance, concurrency, and Typing. [...] With Optcarrot benchmark, which measures single thread performance based on NES’s game emulation workload, it achieved 3x faster performance than Ruby 2.0!" (Comment on this)

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