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2019-09-19


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Fresh init system controversy at the Debian project, a more scalable Samba, and a big release for LLVM.

Plus GitHub's latest security steps and a new version of OBS Studio.

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  • Bits from the DPL (August 2019) — I think to move forward, the elogind maintainers, systemd maintainers and release team need to work together. They may need to get input from the apt and possibly dpkg maintainers. The communication is not working.
  • Samba 4.11.0 - Release Notes — This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.11 release series. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
  • Securing software, together - The GitHub Blog — We believe that fast, unfettered movement of vulnerability data is critical to improving software security. This is why we’re excited to share that GitHub has been approved as a CVE Numbering Authority for open source projects.
  • Welcoming Semmle to GitHub - The GitHub Blog
  • Dependency graph support is now available for PHP repositories with Composer dependencies - The GitHub Blog
  • GitHub security alerts now support PHP projects | ZDNet — Since the Dependency Graph feature is intertwined with the Security Alerts (Vulnerability Alerts) feature, this also means GitHub users will also be eligible to receive automatic security alerts for any vulnerabilities that crop up in the dependencies of their PHP projects.
  • LLVM 9.0.0 Release
  • OBS Studio 24.0
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