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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 2:46p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (xstream), Debian (linuxptp), Fedora (glibc and krb5), Gentoo (pillow and thrift), Mageia (ffmpeg and libsolv), openSUSE (kernel and qemu), SUSE (kernel), and Ubuntu (php5, php7.0). | | 4:07p |
Some massive stable kernel updates The
5.13.2,
5.12.17,
5.10.50, and
5.4.132
stable kernel updates are out. They are huge; when asked why, Greg
Kroah-Hartman responded:
They show the problem that we currently have where maintainers wait
at the end of the -rc cycle and keep valid fixes from being sent to
Linus. They "bunch up" and come out only in -rc1 and so the first
few stable releases after -rc1 comes out are huge. It's been
happening for the past few years and only getting worse. These
stable releases are proof of that, the 5.13.2-rc release was the
largest we have ever done and it broke one of my scripts because of
it :(
There has been more than the usual amount of discussion about patches that
perhaps should not have been included; the probability of regressions in
these releases may be a bit above average. They also, of course, contain a
lot of important bug fixes. | | 10:06p |
[$] Planning the CentOS 8 endgame CentOS 8 is reaching its end of life (EOL) at the end of 2021, though it was originally slated to be supported until 2029. That change was announced last December, but it may still come as a surprise to some, perhaps many, of the users of the distribution. While the systems running CentOS 8 will continue to do so, early next year they will stop getting security (and other) updates. The CentOS project sees CentOS
Stream as a viable alternative, but users may not agree—should the project simply leave CentOS 8 systems as ticking time bombs in 2022 and beyond? |
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