News briefs for October 29, 2018.
The first ever Fedora
Appreciation Week will run November 5th to the 11th.
This week-long event takes place during the 15th anniversary of the Fedora
Project and was organized by the Fedora Community Operations team to “to
celebrate efforts of Fedora Project contributors and to say ‘thank you’
to each other.” Go here
to see how to participate.
The Qt Company announced the deprecation of Qbs. The last Qbs release will come out in April 2019, and the company intends to improve support for CMake significantly and eventually switch to CMake for building Qt itself.
The D language front end has finally merged with GCC 9. According to Phoronix,
“The code is merged for GDC including the libphobos library (D run-time
library) and D2 test suite. Adding the D support touches more than three
thousand files (most of which is test suite cases) and 859,714 lines of
code….Yes, the better part of a million new lines.”
A security bug was discovered in systemd last week that can crash a Linux
machine or execute malicious code. The
Register reports that the “maliciously crafted DHCPv6 packets can try to
exploit the programming cockup and arbitrarily change parts of memory in
vulnerable systems, leading to potential code execution. This code could
install malware, spyware, and other nasties, if successful”. The vulnerability
is in the DHCPv6 client of the systemd management suite.
And finally, you’ve likely already heard that IBM yesterday
announced its acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion. Interesting note: Bob
Young, founder of Red Hat, was Linux Journal‘s first editor in chief.