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Wednesday, May 19th, 2021

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    1:43p
    Upheaval at freenode
    Several readers have alerted us to some serious problems at freenode, which runs an IRC network that
    is popular in the free-software world. Evidently there has been a change
    of control within the volunteer-run organization that has led to the
    resignations of multiple different volunteers, at least in part due
    to a concern about the personal information of freenode users under the new
    management. "The
    freenode resignation FAQ    " has collected a bunch of information (and
    links to even more resignation letters) that may help shed some light on this mess.
    From the FAQ: "Freenode staff have stepped down. The network that
    runs at freenode.org/net/com should now be assumed to be under control of a
    malicious party.    "
    In the meantime, many of the volunteers who resigned have formed Libera.Chat to continue the legacy of
    freenode. LWN will be keeping an eye on the situation, stay tuned ...
    2:43p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Fedora (cacti, cacti-spine, exif, and hivex), Red Hat (bash, bind, bluez, brotli, container-tools:rhel8, cpio, curl, dotnet3.1, dotnet5.0, dovecot, evolution, exiv2, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, GNOME, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, gssdp and gupnp, httpd:2.4, idm:DL1, idm:DL1 and idm:client, ipa, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libdb, libvncserver, libxml2, linux-firmware, mailman:2.1, mingw packages, NetworkManager and libnma, opensc, p11-kit, pandoc, perl, pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6, poppler and evince, python-cryptography, python-lxml, python-urllib3, python27:2.7, python3, python38:3.8, qt5-qtbase, raptor2, redis:6, rh-mariadb103-mariadb and rh-mariadb103-galera, rust-toolset:rhel8, samba, sane-backends, shim, slapi-nis, spice, spice-vdagent, sqlite, squid:4, sudo, systemd, tigervnc, trousers, unbound, userspace graphics, xorg-x11, and mesa, virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel, wpa_supplicant, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (kernel), and Ubuntu (djvulibre, gst-plugins-base1.0, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, python-pip, and runc).
    2:55p
    Four stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.12.5, 5.11.22, 5.10.38, and 5.4.120 have been released. This is the last
    5.11.y kernel and users should move to 5.12.y at this time.
    10:13p
    [$] A bunch of releases from the Pallets projects
    May 11 marked a new major release for the Python-based Flask web
    microframework     project, but Flask 2.0
    was only part of the story. While the framework may be the most visible
    piece, it is one of a small handful of cooperating libraries that provide
    solutions for various web-development tasks; all are incorporated into the Pallets projects organization. For
    the first time, all
    six libraries that make up Pallets were released at the same time and
    each had a new major version number. In part, that new major version
    indicated that Python 2 support was being left behind, but there is
    plenty more that went into the coordinated release.

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