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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021

    Time Event
    3:55p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (sudo), CentOS (sudo), Debian (sudo), Fedora (kernel, php-pear, and sudo), Gentoo (cacti, mutt, and sudo), Mageia (sudo), openSUSE (sudo), Oracle (sudo), Red Hat (sudo), Scientific Linux (sudo), Slackware (sudo), SUSE (go1.14, go1.15, nodejs8, and sudo), and Ubuntu (libsndfile and sudo).
    4:01p
    Three stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.10.11, 5.4.93, and 4.19.171 have been released. They contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    5:11p
    [$] Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary
    Open-source software is famously able to be used by anyone for any purpose;
    those are some of the keystones of the open
    source definition    .
    But some companies that run open-source projects are increasingly unhappy
    that others are reaping some of the profits from those projects.
    That has led to various
    efforts of "license reform" meant to try to capture those profits. So
    far, those efforts have just led to non-open-source licenses, thus projects
    that are no longer open source. We are seeing
    that play out yet again with Elastic's mid-January announcement that
    it was changing the license on some of its projects.
    9:38p
    [$] A year of Python in Fedora
    Distribution developers do a lot of work to keep a language ecosystem
    working well within the distribution. It is relatively thankless work that
    normally only becomes visible when there is a problem or complaint. But
    Miro Hrončok recently put together a look
    back     at what the Fedora Python team did during 2020. While it is,
    obviously, Fedora-specific, it provides something of a look inside at the
    kinds of things that distribution teams work on.

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