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Friday, September 24th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 2:17p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mupdf), Fedora (ghostscript, gifsicle, and ntfs-3g), openSUSE (kernel and nodejs14), and SUSE (curl, ffmpeg, gd, hivex, kernel, nodejs14, python-reportlab, sqlite3, and xen). | | 3:49p |
coreutils-9.0 released The GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) has announced the release of version 9.0 of " the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities" used by the GNU operating system and various Linux distributions. In the year and a half or so since the last major release (8.32), various new features were added, including:
cp has changed how it handles data
- enables CoW [copy on write] by default (through FICLONE ioctl),
- uses copy offload where available (through copy_file_range),
- detects holes differently (though SEEK_HOLE)
- This also applies to mv and install.
| | 5:04p |
[$] Two security improvements for GCC It has often been said that the competition between the GCC and LLVM compilers is good for both of them. One place where that competition shows up is in the area of security features; if one compiler adds a way to harden programs, the other is likely to follow suit. Qing
Zhao's session at the 2021
Linux Plumbers Conference told the story of how GCC successfully played catch-up for two security-related features that were of special interest to the kernel community. | | 7:55p |
Results from the 2021 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election
The 2021 election for the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory board
resulted in all five incumbent members (Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jonathan
Corbet, Steven Rostedt, Ted Ts'o, and Sasha Levin) being re-elected. Of the
1,012 developers authorized to vote, 237 actually cast ballots. |
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