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Friday, February 12th, 2021

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    3:05p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (ansible, chromium, cups, docker, firefox, gitlab, glibc, helm, lib32-glibc, minio, nextcloud, opendoas, opera, php, php7, privoxy, python-django, python-jinja, python2-jinja, thunderbird, vivaldi, and wireshark-cli), Fedora (jasper, linux-firmware, php, python-cryptography, spice-vdagent, subversion, and thunderbird), Mageia (gssproxy and phpldapadmin), openSUSE (chromium, containerd, docker, docker-runc,, librepo, nextcloud, and privoxy), SUSE (containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork, kernel, openvswitch, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (wpa).
    5:52p
    [$] Introducing maple trees
    Seen from outside, the internals of the Linux kernel appear to be stable,
    especially in subsystems like the memory-management subsystem. However,
    from time to time, developers need to replace an internal
    interface to solve a longstanding problem. One such
    issue is contention on the lock used to protect essential
    memory-management structures, including the page tables and virtual memory areas
    (VMAs). Liam Howlett and Matthew Wilcox have been developing a new
    data structure, called a "maple tree", to replace the data structures
    currently used for VMAs. This potentially big change in internal kernel
    structures has been recently posted
    for a review in a massive patch set.
    10:23p
    Gentoo mourns the loss of Kent Fredric
    A brief
    post     on the Gentoo site is in memory of Kent "kent\n" Frederic.
    "Kent was an active member of the Gentoo community for many years. He tirelessly managed Gentoo’s Perl support, and was active in the Rust project as well as in many other corners. We all remember him as an enthusiastic, bright person, with lots of eye for detail and constant willingness to help out and improve things. On behalf of the world-wide Gentoo community, our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends."

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