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Wednesday, January 6th, 2021

    Time Event
    3:46p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (cairo, dovecot, and minidlna), Oracle (ImageMagick), Scientific Linux (ImageMagick), SUSE (clamav, dovecot23, java-1_8_0-ibm, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke-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-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, p11-kit, and wavpack).
    5:47p
    Yet another set of stable kernels
    The
    5.10.5,
    5.4.87, and
    4.19.165
    stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of
    important fixes.
    8:20p
    [$] Some unlikely 2021 predictions
    Just because something is traditional does not imply that it is necessarily
    a good idea. As a case in point, consider LWN's tradition of starting the
    year with some predictions for what is to come; some may be obvious while
    others are implausible, but none of them are reliable. Nonetheless, we've
    been doing this since 2002 so we can't stop now.
    Read on for our wild guesses as to what might transpire in 2021.
    8:36p
    [$] Bootstrappable builds
    The idea of Reproducible
    Builds    —being able to recreate bit-for-bit identical binaries using the
    same source code—has gained momentum over the last few years.
    Reproducible builds provide some safeguards against bad actors
    in the software supply chain. But building software depends on the tools
    used to construct the binary, including compilers and build-automation tools, many of
    which depend on pre-existing binaries. Minimizing the reliance on opaque
    binaries for building our software ecosystem is the goal of the Bootstrappable Builds project.

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