Monday, July 5th, 2021

Time	Event
1:32p	Darktable 3.6 released Version 3.6 of the Darktable raw photo editor has been released. "The darktable team is proud to announce our second summer feature release, darktable 3.6. Merry (summer) Christmas! This is the first of two releases this year and, from here on, we intend to issue two new feature releases each year, around the summer and winter solstices." The list of new features is long, including a new color-balance module, a "censorize" module for partial pixelization of images, a new demosaic algorithm, and more. (Comment on this)
3:03p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (electron11, electron12, istio, jenkins, libtpms, mediawiki, mruby, opera, puppet, and python-fastapi), Debian (djvulibre and openexr), Fedora (dovecot, libtpms, nginx, and php-league-flysystem), Gentoo (corosync, freeimage, graphviz, and libqb), Mageia (busybox, file-roller, live, networkmanager, and php), openSUSE (clamav-database, lua53, and roundcubemail), Oracle (389-ds:1.4, kernel, libxml2, python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8, and ruby:2.5), and SUSE (crmsh, djvulibre, python-py, and python-rsa). (Comment on this)
3:09p	[$] Bye-bye bdflush() The addition of system calls to the Linux kernel is a routine affair; it happens during almost every merge window. The removal of system calls, instead, is much more uncommon. That appears likely to happen soon, though, as discussions proceed on the removal of bdflush(). Read on for a look at the purpose and history of this obscure system call and to learn whether you will miss it (you won't). (Comment on this)

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