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Thursday November 29, 2018. 01:51 AM
Wednesday November 28, 2018. 10:19 PM
Malware inserted into a popular npm package has put some users at risk of losing Bitcoin, which is certainly worrisome. More concerning, though, is the implications of how the malware got into the package—and how the package got distributed. This is not the first time we...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (powerdns-recursor and samba), Debian (ghostscript), Fedora (community-mysql, flatpak, gettext, git, php-PHPMailer, php-phpmailer6, and wireshark), Oracle (kernel and NetworkManager), Scientific Linux (ghostscript, kernel,...
A recurring topic in filesystem-developer circles is on handling case-insensitive file names. Filesystems for other operating systems do so but, by and large, Linux filesystems do not. In the Kernel Summit track of the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Gabriel Krisman...
Tuesday November 27, 2018. 10:36 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernels 4.19.5, 4.14.84, 4.9.141, 4.4.165, and 3.18.127. They all contain important fixes and users should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gnuplot and samba), Fedora (flatpak, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, mariadb-connector-c, php-PHPMailer, php-phpmailer6, and xml-security-c), Gentoo (binutils, libav, mupdf, spice-gtk, strongswan, and tablib), Mageia (libpng(12),...
Monday November 26, 2018. 10:01 PM
The kernelci.org project develops and operates a distributed testing infrastructure for the kernel. It continuously builds, boots, and tests multiple kernel trees on various types of boards. Kevin Hilman and Gustavo Padovan led a session in the Testing & Fuzzing...
'Who's on Team Xmas Tree?' asked Dan Williams at the beginning of his talk in the Kernel Summit track of the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference. He was referring to a rule for the ordering of local variable declarations within functions that is enforced by a minority of kernel...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gnuplot5, icecast2, liblivemedia, otrs2, phpbb3, roundcube, squid3, and xml-security-c), Fedora (kio-extras, tmux, and xen), Gentoo (asterisk, chromium, exiv2, ghostscript-gpl, and thunderbird), openSUSE (libwpd, openssl,...
Linus has released the 4.20-rc4 kernel prepatch. 'Nothing looks particularly odd or scary, although we do have some known stuff still pending.'
Friday November 23, 2018. 04:38 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a number of stable kernels over the last few days, 3.18.126 on November 22, and, on November 23: 4.19.4, 4.14.83, and 4.9.139. Two problems were reported for 4.9.139, which quickly led to the release of 4.9.140. As usual, these kernels contain...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (flashplugin, lib32-libtiff, and webkit2gtk), Debian (libphp-phpmailer and openjdk-7), Mageia (flash-player-plugin, Ghostscript, and poppler), openSUSE (chromium and virtualbox), and SUSE (java-1_8_0-ibm, libwpd, openssl,...
Thursday November 22, 2018. 08:04 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ceph, openssl, and pixman), Fedora (kernel-headers, kernel-tools, libconfuse, python-urllib3, and xen), Mageia (gettext and roundcubemail), openSUSE (GraphicsMagick and libwpd), Oracle (thunderbird), Slackware (openssl), and...
Wednesday November 21, 2018. 04:48 PM
Stable kernels 4.19.3, 4.18.20, 4.14.82, 4.9.138, and 4.4.164 have been released with the usual set of important fixes. This is the last 4.18.y kernel release and users should upgrade to 4.19.y.
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (libtiff), CentOS (java-1.7.0-openjdk, spice-server, and thunderbird), Debian (jasper, liblivemedia, ruby-i18n, and ruby-rack), Fedora (curl, elfutils, firefox, kde-connect, kio-extras, libarchive, poppler, and webkit2gtk3),...
Tuesday November 20, 2018. 05:53 PM
There has been a great deal of discussion around the kernel project's recently adopted code of conduct (CoC), but little of that has happened in an open setting. That changed to an extent when a panel discussion was held during the Kernel Summit track at the 2018 Linux...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium), Debian (mariadb-10.1, openjpeg2, systemd, and uriparser), Mageia (389-ds-base, apache, and soundtouch), SUSE (libwpd, py26-compat-salt, salt, and SMS3.1), and Ubuntu (systemd).
Monday November 19, 2018. 06:35 PM
The closing event at the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) was a panel of kernel developers. The participants were Laura Abbott, Anna-Maria Gleixner, Shuah Khan, Julia Lawall, and Anna Schumaker; moderation was provided by Kate Stewart. This fast-moving discussion covered ...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (grafana and patch), Debian (chromium-browser), Fedora (cabextract, curl, elfutils, firefox, flatpak, glusterfs, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, kio-extras, libmspack, mariadb, mupdf, poppler, suricata, and wireshark),...
The 4.20-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'The changes in rc3 are pretty tiny, which means that the statistics look slightly different from the usual ones - drivers only account for less than a third of the patch, for example.'
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