| 3:10p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (connman, go, and grub), Debian (nettle, prosody, and tor), Fedora (iaito, mingw-ilmbase, mingw-openexr, mingw-python-urllib3, mosquitto, nettle, polkit, and radare2), Mageia (puddletag, python-babel, python-eventlet, and python-pikepdf), openSUSE (htmldoc), SUSE (go1.15, go1.16, gupnp, and libgcrypt), and Ubuntu (apache2 and dovecot). |
| 4:24p |
[$] A stable bug fix bites proprietary modules
The kernel-development community has long had a tense relationship with
companies that create and ship proprietary loadable kernel modules. In the
view of many developers, such modules are a violation of the GPL and should
simply be disallowed. That has never happened, though; instead, the
community has pursued a policy of legal ambiguity and technical
inconvenience to discourage proprietary modules. A
"technical-inconvenience" patch that was merged nearly one year ago has
begun to show up in stable kernel releases, leading at least one
developer to complain that things have gone a little too far. |