News briefs for October 22, 2018.
Greg Kroah-Hartman released
Linux kernel 4.19 this morning and handed the kernel tree back to
Linus, writing “You can have the joy of dealing with the merge window.”
Linus Torvalds “is meeting with Linux’s top 40 or so
developers at the Maintainers’ Summit”, at the Open Source Summit Europe in
Edinburgh, Scotland, ZDNet
reports. He isn’t scheduled to speak, but “this is his first step back
in taking over Linux’s reins.”
Linspire
8.0 RC1 was released over the weekend. The stable release is
expected in December (don’t use this release in production environments),
and RC2, which should be more feature-complete, is expected in November.
Among other changes, in this version, iMac Pro support has been improved
and Oracle Java is now in the repositories. It uses the MATE 1.20.1
desktop, kernel 4.15 and Chrome 69.
IPFire 2.21 – Core Update 124 is out, and according to the release
announcement, it “brings new features and immensely improves security and
performance of the whole system”. It’s now available on AWS
EC2, is
updated to kernel version 4.14.72 and the security of its SSH daemon has
been improved, among other new features.
A recently discovered Apache vulnerability could affect thousands of
applications. Dark
Reading reports that the issue is with “the way that thousands of code
projects are using Apache .htaccess, leaving them vulnerable to
unauthorized access and a subsequent file upload attack in which
auto-executing code is uploaded to an application.”