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Friday, February 5th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 2:54p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and monitorix), Mageia (mutt, nodejs, and nodejs-ini), Oracle (flatpak, glibc, and kernel), Red Hat (rh-nodejs14-nodejs), Scientific Linux (flatpak), and Ubuntu (flatpak and minidlna). | | 3:14p |
[$] The imminent stable-version apocalypse
As has often been pointed out, the stable-kernel releases are meant to be
stable; that means they should be even more averse to ABI breaks than
mainline releases, if that is possible. This may be a hard promise to keep
for the next set of stable kernels, though, for the most mundane of
reasons: nobody thought that there would be more than 255 minor updates to
any given kernel release. | | 4:29p |
Two new "experimental" stable kernels Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 4.9.256and 4.4.256 in order to try to figure out if there are any user-space problems caused by the overflow of the minor version number for those stable-kernel series. " With this release, KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 256) is the same as KERNEL_VERSION(4, 10, 0).
Nothing in the kernel build itself breaks with this change, but given that this
is a userspace visible change, and some crazy tools (like glibc and gcc) have
logic that checks the kernel version for different reasons, I wanted to do this
release as an 'empty' release to ensure that everything still works
properly." Those who could be affected would be well-advised to test this change immediately as he plans another 4.9 release in a week's time. |
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