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Thursday, August 26th, 2021

    Time Event
    2:40a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 26, 2021
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 26, 2021 is available.
    1:30p
    Security updates for Thursday
    Security updates have been issued by Fedora (community-mysql, containerd, dotnet3.1, dotnet5.0, perl-Encode, and tor), Mageia (gpsd), openSUSE (cacti, cacti-spine, go1.16, jetty-minimal, libmspack, mariadb, openexr, and tor), SUSE (aspell, jetty-minimal, libesmtp, mariadb, and unrar), and Ubuntu (firefox and mongodb).
    1:58p
    Seven new stable kernels
    Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 5.13.13, 5.10.61, 5.4.143, 4.19.205, 4.14.245, 4.9.281, and 4.4.282 stable kernels. As usual, they
    contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those series should upgrade.
    4:23p
    [$] Not-a-GPU accelerator drivers cross the line
    As a general rule, the kernel community is happy to merge working device
    drivers without much concern for the availability of any associated
    user-space code. What happens in user space is beyond the kernel's concern
    and unaffected by the kernel's license. There is an exception, though, in
    the form of drivers for graphical processors (GPUs), which cannot be merged
    in the absence of a working, freely-licensed user-space component. The
    question of which drivers are subject to that rule has come up a few times
    in recent years; that discussion has now come to a decision point with an
    effort to block some
    Habana Labs driver updates     from entry into the 5.15 kernel.

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