Monday, March 29th, 2021

Time	Event
2:02p	Kernel prepatch 5.12-rc5 The 5.12-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "So if rc4 was perhaps a bit smaller than average, it looks like rc5 is a bigger than average. We're not breaking any records, but it certainly isn't tiny, and the rc's aren't shrinking. I'm not overly worried yet, but let's just say that the trend had better not continue, or I'll start feeling like we will need to make this one of those releases that need an rc8." (Comment on this)
2:16p	PHP Git repository server compromised The PHP project has announced that it is moving its PHP repository to GitHub after its own server was compromised. "Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo from the names of Rasmus Lerdorf and myself. We don't yet know how exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the git.php.net server (rather than a compromise of an individual git account)." (Comment on this)
3:35p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (awstats, busybox, dotnet-runtime, dotnet-runtime-3.1, dotnet-sdk, dotnet-sdk-3.1, gitlab, godot, groovy, libebml, mkinitcpio-busybox, openssl, python2, vivaldi, webkit2gtk, and wpewebkit), CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (pygments, spamassassin, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (CGAL, dotnet3.1, dotnet5.0, firefox, kernel, qt, and xen), Mageia (imagemagick, jackson-databind, openscad, redis, and unbound), openSUSE (evolution-data-server, go1.15, and zstd), Oracle (firefox, openssl, and thunderbird), Red Hat (flatpak), Slackware (xterm), and Ubuntu (squid, squid3 and webkit2gtk). (Comment on this)
4:46p	More changes at the Free Software Foundation John Sullivan, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, has announced his resignation from the organization. "It's been a humbling honor to serve this institution, and to work alongside the FSF's staff, members, and volunteers over the years. The current staff deserve your full confidence and support -- they certainly have mine." Meanwhile, the FSF has announced the addition of Ian Kelling to its board of directors. "The board and voting members look forward to having the participation of the staff via this designated seat in our future deliberations. This is an important step in the FSF's effort to recognize and support new leadership, to connect that leadership to the community, to improve transparency and accountability, and to build trust. There is still considerable work to be done, and that work will continue." (Comment on this)
6:24p	[$] Lockless patterns: some final topics So far, this series has covered five common lockless patterns in the Linux kernel; those are probably the five that you will most likely encounter when working on Linux. Throughout this series, some details have been left out and some simplifications were made in the name of clarity. In this final installment, I will sort out some of these loose ends and try to answer what is arguably the most important question of all: when should you use the lockless patterns that have been described here? (Comment on this)

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