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Monday, March 1st, 2021

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    2:02a
    Kernel prepatch 5.12-rc1
    Linus Torvalds has released 5.12-rc1 (codename now "Frozen wasteland") and closed the merge window despite getting a late start due to bad weather:

    So I was actually without electricity for six days of the merge window, and was seriously considering just extending the merge window to get everything done. As you can tell, I didn't do that. To a large part because people were actually very good about sending in their pull requests, so by the time I finally got power back, everything was nicely lined up and I got things merged up ok. But partly this is also because 5.12 is a smaller release than some previous ones.
    3:14p
    Fish shell 3.2.0 released
    Version
    3.2.0     of the fish shell has been released. New features include undo
    and redo support (for command-line editing, not commands!) and a long list
    of incremental improvements; see the announcement for details. LWN last looked at the fish shell in September.
    3:55p
    Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
    William Woodruff has posted a rant of sorts on the adoption of Rust by the Python Cryptography project, which was covered here in February.

    What’s the point of this spiel? It’s precisely what happened to pyca/cryptography: nobody asked them whether it was a good idea to try to run their code on HPPA, much less System/390; some packagers just went ahead and did it, and are frustrated that it no longer works. People just assumed that it would, because there is still a norm that everything flows from C, and that any host with a halfway-functional C compiler should have the entire open source ecosystem at its disposal.
    4:31p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, ImageMagick, libexif, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (docker.io, python-aiohttp, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, kernel, and rygel), Mageia (nodejs, pix, and subversion), openSUSE (glibc, gnuplot, nodejs12, nodejs14, pcp, python-cryptography, qemu, and salt), Red Hat (bind and podman), and SUSE (csync2, glibc, java-1_8_0-ibm, nodejs12, nodejs14, python-Jinja2, and rpmlint).
    9:02p
    [$] 5.12 merge window, part 2
    The 5.12 merge window closed with the release of 5.12-rc1
    on February 28; this released followed the normal schedule despite the
    fact that Linus Torvalds had been without power for the first six days
    after 5.11 came out. At that point, 10,886 non-merge changesets had found
    their way into the mainline repository; about 2,000 of those showed up
    after the first-half merge-window summary
    was written. The pace of merging obviously slowed down, but there were
    still a number of interesting features to be found in those patches.

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