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Monday, February 8th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 3:20a |
Kernel prepatch 5.11-rc7 The 5.11-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. " Anyway, this is hopefully the last rc for this release, unless some
surprise comes along and makes a travesty of our carefully laid plans.
It happens.
Nothing hugely scary stands out, with the biggest single part of the
patch being some new self-tests. In fact, about a quarter of the patch
is documentation and selftests." | | 4:10p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, gdisk, intel-microcode, privoxy, and wireshark), Fedora (mingw-binutils, mingw-jasper, mingw-SDL2, php, python-pygments, python3.10, wireshark, wpa_supplicant, and zeromq), Mageia (gdisk and tomcat), openSUSE (chromium, cups, kernel, nextcloud, openvswitch, RT kernel, and rubygem-nokogiri), SUSE (nutch-core), and Ubuntu (openldap, php-pear, and qemu). | | 4:17p |
Four stable kernels Stable kernels 5.10.14, 5.4.96, 4.19.174, and 4.14.220 have been released. They all contain important fixes and users should upgrade. | | 5:02p |
[$] The burstable CFS bandwidth controller The kernel's CFS bandwidth controller is an effective way of controlling just how much CPU time is available to each control group. It can keep processes from consuming too much CPU time and ensure that adequate time is available for all processes that need it. That said, it's not entirely surprising that the bandwidth controller is not perfect for every workload out there. This
patch set from Huaixin Chang aims to make it work better for bursty, latency-sensitive workloads. | | 6:03p |
The Rust language gets a foundation The newly formed Rust Foundation has announced
its existence. " Today, on behalf of the Rust Core team, I’m
excited to announce the Rust Foundation, a new independent non-profit
organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a
unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop
the project. The Rust Foundation will hold its first board meeting
tomorrow, February 9th, at 4pm CT. The board of directors is composed of 5
directors from our Founding member companies, AWS, Huawei, Google,
Microsoft, and Mozilla, as well as 5 directors from project leadership, 2
representing the Core Team, as well as 3 project areas: Reliability,
Quality, and Collaboration." Mozilla has transferred its trademarks and domains for Rust over to the foundation. |
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