| 3:12p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libimage-exiftool-perl and postgresql-9.6), Fedora (chromium, exiv2, firefox, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, mariadb, and python-impacket), Mageia (avahi), openSUSE (chromium, drbd-utils, dtc, ipvsadm, jhead, nagios, netdata, openvpn, opera, prosody, and virtualbox), Slackware (libxml2), SUSE (kernel and lz4), and Ubuntu (intel-microcode, python-eventlet, and rust-pleaser). |
| 6:57p |
T2 Linux 21.5 "Because we can" for 18 architectures
The T2 System Development Environment Linux 21.5 was released with 18 pre-
and cross-compiled architectures. "The 21.5 release received updates
across the board, while a major point of work was the GCC 11 update as well
as re-basing and fixing upstream regressions for the Sony PS3 support as
well as various small improvements, including an up to 15 seconds faster
system shutdown when using sysvinit." |
| 8:52p |
[$] Exported-symbol changes in 5.13
There have been many disagreements over the years in the kernel community
concerning the exporting of internal kernel symbols to loadable modules.
Exporting a symbol often exposes implementation decisions to outside code,
makes it possible to use (or abuse) kernel functionality in unintended
ways, and makes future changes harder. That said, there is no authority
overseeing the exporting of symbols and no process for approving exports;
discussions only tend to arise
when somebody notices a change that they don't like. But it is not
particularly hard to detect changes in symbol exports from one kernel
version to the next, and doing so can give some insights into the kinds of
changes that are happening under the hood. |