5 év 5 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (apache-commons-beanutils, java-1.8.0-openjdk, libarchive, openjpeg2, openslp, python-reportlab, and sqlite), Debian (hiredis, otrs2, and unzip), openSUSE (apt-cacher-ng, git, samba, sarg, and storeBackup), Oracle (openjpeg2), Red Hat (libarchive, openjpeg2, sqlite, and virt:rhel), SUSE (aws-cli and python-reportlab), and Ubuntu (libgcrypt11, linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oracle-5.0, linux-hwe, linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, and openjdk-8, openjdk-lts).
ris
5 év 5 hónap óta
Version
6.4 of the LibreOffice productivity suite is out. It is said to be
"a new major release providing better performance, especially when
opening and saving spreadsheets and presentations, and excellent
compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files."
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
The Thunderbird email client has been
moved
into a separate company called "MZLA Technologies Corporation", which
remains wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. "Moving to MZLA Technologies Corporation will not only allow the Thunderbird project more flexibility and agility, but will also allow us to explore offering our users products and services that were not possible under the Mozilla Foundation. The move will allow the project to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations, which in turn can be used to cover the costs of new products and services.
Thunderbird’s focus isn’t going to change. We remain committed to creating
amazing, open source technology focused on open standards, user privacy,
and productive communication."
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
Transparent and verifiable electronic elections are technically feasible,
but for a variety of reasons, the techniques used are not actually viable for
running most elections—and definitely not for remote voting. That was one of the
main takeaways from a keynote at this year's
linux.conf.au given by University of
Melbourne Associate
Professor Vanessa Teague. She is a cryptographer who, along with her
colleagues, has investigated
several kinds of e-voting software; as is
probably not all that much of a surprise, what they found is buggy
implementations. She described some of that work in a
talk that was a mix of math with software-company and government missteps; the latter may
directly impact many of the Australian locals who were in attendance.
jake
5 év 5 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (iperf3, openjpeg2, and tomcat7), Mageia (ansible, c3p0, fontforge, glpi, gthumb, libbsd, libmediainfo, libmp4v2, libqb, libsass, mbedtls, opencontainers-runc, php, python-pip, python-reportlab, python3, samba, sysstat, tomcat, virtualbox, and webkit2), openSUSE (java-11-openjdk, libredwg, and sarg), Oracle (sqlite), Red Hat (libarchive, nss, and openjpeg2), Scientific Linux (sqlite), SUSE (nodejs6), and Ubuntu (cyrus-sasl2, linux, linux-aws, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws, linux-oem, mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0, tcpdump, and tomcat8).
ris
5 év 5 hónap óta
The
5.5 kernel was released on
January 26. Over the course of this development cycle, it was
occasionally said that the holidays were slowing contributions. At the
end, though, 5.5 saw the merging of 14,350 non-merge changesets from 1,885
developers — not exactly a slow-moving cycle. Indeed, 5.5 just barely
edged out 5.4 as the kernel with the most developers ever. Read on for our
traditional look at where the contributions to 5.5 came from, along with a
digression into the stable-update process.
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
The Qt blog has
announced some
changes in how the Qt toolkit is offered to consumers. Notably,
installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account and
long-term-supported (LTS) releases and the offline installer will become
available to commercial licensees only. "From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will require valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary packages. We changed this because we think that a Qt account lets you make the best use of our services and contribute to Qt as an open-source user.
We want open-source users to help improve Qt in one form or another, be that through bug reports, forums, code reviews, or similar. These are currently only accessible from a Qt account, which is why having one will become mandatory."
ris
5 év 5 hónap óta
Stable kernels
4.19.99 and
4.14.168. As usual, there are important fixes
and users should upgrade.
ris
5 év 5 hónap óta
Stable kernel
5.4.15 has been released with
important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade.
ris
5 év 5 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jsoup and slirp), Fedora (community-mysql, elog, fontforge, libuv, libvpx, mingw-podofo, nodejs, opensc, podofo, thunderbird-enigmail, transfig, and xfig), openSUSE (arc, libssh, and libvpx), Red Hat (git, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, python-reportlab, and sqlite), Slackware (thunderbird), and SUSE (java-1_8_0-openjdk, python, and samba).
ris
5 év 5 hónap óta
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
Ars Technica
reviews the
Purism Librem 5 smartphone, which is made from open-source software and (mostly) open hardware. It is clearly not there yet as a replacement for the phone in our pockets, but it would seem to be on the right path. "The thing to keep in mind here is that Purism has taken on an absolutely gargantuan task. It somehow scraped together a new supply chain of mostly open source components, it came up with a smartphone design from scratch, and it is building its own smartphone distribution of Linux. Two years is not enough time to do this. The OS and app package is not nearly finished, and it lacks basic smartphone functionality. The hardware is nearly finished, but you'll have a hard time taking advantage of it right now since the power management isn't really implemented, and support for things like the cameras are non-existent. If you really want open source smartphones to be a thing, though, this is where you need to start. The Librem 5 is a proof of concept."
jake
5 év 5 hónap óta
The
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put out a
statement in support of journalist Glenn Greenwald whose "prosecution is an attempt to use computer crime law to silence an investigative reporter who exposed deep-seated government corruption". Greenwald is being charged in Brazil, where he
reported on corruption within the government of that country. While the EFF said that it has seen "no actions detailed in the criminal complaint that violate Brazilian law", its main concern is the use of ill-defined "cybercrime" laws.
"Around the world, cybercrime laws are notoriously hazy. This is in part because it’s challenging to write good cybercrime laws: technology evolves quickly, our language for describing certain digital actions may be imprecise, and lawmakers may not always imagine how laws will later be interpreted. And while the laws are hazy, the penalties are often severe, which makes them a dangerously big stick in the hands of prosecutors. Prosecutors can and do take advantage of this disconnection, abusing laws designed to target criminals who break into computers for extortion or theft to prosecute those engaged in harmless activities, or research—or, in this case, journalists communicating with their sources."
jake
5 év 5 hónap óta
One year ago, the
io_uring subsystem did
not exist in the mainline kernel; it showed up in the 5.1 release in May
2019. At its core, io_uring is a mechanism for performing asynchronous
I/O, but it has been steadily growing beyond that use case and adding new
capabilities. Herein we catch up with the current state of io_uring, where
it is headed, and an interesting question or two that will come up along
the way.
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (git and python-apt), Oracle (openslp), Red Hat (chromium-browser and ghostscript), SUSE (samba, slurm, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (clamav, gnutls28, and python-apt).
jake
5 év 5 hónap óta
Some years back, I was caught in a weak moment and somehow became the
kernel documentation maintainer. More recently, I've given a few talks on
the state of kernel documentation and the sort of work that needs to be
done to make things better. A key part of getting that work done is
communicating to potential contributors the tasks that they might helpfully
take on — a list that was, naturally, entirely undocumented. To that end,
a version of the following document is currently under review and headed
for the mainline. Read on to see how you, too, can help to make the
kernel's documentation better.
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 4.4.211, 4.9.211, 4.14.167, 4.19.98, and 5.4.14 stable kernels. As usual, these
contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users should upgrade.
jake
5 év 5 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by openSUSE (chromium, libredwg, and thunderbird), Oracle (apache-commons-beanutils, java-1.8.0-openjdk, libarchive, and python-reportlab), Red Hat (kernel), Scientific Linux (apache-commons-beanutils, libarchive, and openslp), SUSE (java-11-openjdk), and Ubuntu (e2fsprogs, graphicsmagick, python-apt, and zlib).
jake
5 év 5 hónap óta
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 23, 2020 is available.
corbet
5 év 5 hónap óta
Keith Packard is no stranger to the
linux.conf.au stage; he has spoken on a
wide variety of topics since he started going to the conference in 2004
(which was held in
Adelaide, where organizers apparently had a lot of ice cream for
attendees). One of his talks at this year's conference was on an
education-focused project that he has been working on for around a year:
a version of Python called "
Snek" targeting embedded processors.
He gave a look at some of the
history of his work with 10-12 year-old students that led to the
development of Snek as well as some plans for the language—and hardware to
run it on—moving forward.
jake
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