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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021

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    2:49p
    GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement
    The GCC compiler, like other GNU projects, has long required contributors
    to complete paperwork assigning the copyrights on their work to the Free
    Software Foundation. That requirement has just been dropped, and
    contributors can now attach a Signed-off-by tag indicating use of the
    Developers Certificate of
    Origin     instead. "This change is consistent with
    the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the
    Linux kernel.    " Initial discussion
    suggests that some developers
    were surprised by this change and are yet to be convinced that it is a good
    idea.
    2:52p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Fedora (cflow, chromium, eterm, gnutls, and kernel), Mageia (kernel and kernel-linus), Oracle (glib2), Red Hat (glib2, kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), SUSE (curl, djvulibre, gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-ugly, nginx, python-httplib2, and slurm), and Ubuntu (gupnp, libwebp, postgresql-10, postgresql-12, postgresql-13, and python3.8).
    3:26p
    Firefox 89
    Firefox 89 has been released. The
    changes in this version focus on the look and feel. "We’ve redesigned
    and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier
    to use.     " This release also includes enhancements to the privacy
    offerings. "We’ve
    enhanced the privacy of the Firefox Browser’s Private Browsing mode
    with Total Cookie Protection, which confines cookies to the site where they
    were created, preventing companies from using cookies to track your browsing across sites. This feature was originally launched in Firefox’s ETP Strict mode.    "
    4:14p
    Update to GCC copyright assignment policy
    The GCC Steering Committee has decided to
    relax the requirement     to assign copyright to the Free Software
    Foundation. "Contributors who have an FSF Copyright Assignment don't
    need to change anything. Contributors who wish to utilize the Developer
    Certificate of Origin should add a Signed-off-by message to their commit
    messages. Developers with commit access may add their name to the DCO list
    in the MAINTAINERS file to certify the DCO for all future commits in lieu
    of individual Signed-off-by messages for each commit.    "
    9:39p
    [$] Making CPython faster
    Over the last month or so, there has been a good bit of news
    surrounding the idea of increasing the performance of the CPython
    interpreter. At the 2021
    Python Language Summit     in mid-May, Guido van Rossum announced
    that he and a small team are being funded by Microsoft to work with the
    community on getting performance improvements upstream into the
    interpreter—crucially, without breaking the C API so that the ecosystem of
    Python extensions (e.g. NumPy) continue to
    work. Another talk at
    the summit looked
    at Cinder    , which is a performance-oriented CPython fork that is used in
    production at Instagram. Cinder was recently released as open-source
    software, as was another
    project to speed up CPython     that originated at Dropbox: Pyston.

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