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Creative Commons Search Is Now Out of Beta, Dell Announces Two New Budget-Friendly Mobile Workstations, NS1 Releases Flamethrower, Scalyr Launches PowerQueries and High-Severity Hole Discovered in Oracle WebLogic

News briefs for May 1, 2019.

Fedora 30 Is Here, Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces the Gender Balance in Computing Project, Open ZFS/ZFS On Linux Working on a Code of Conduct, Docker Hub Breach and Help Promote the Coming openSUSE Leap 15.1 Release

News briefs for April 30, 2019.

Apache Software Foundation Migrates to GitHub, Linux Kernel 5.1-rc7 Is Out, deepin 15.10 Released, Debian 9.9 Update and KaOS 2019.04 Now Available

News briefs for April 29, 2019.

The EFF Asks You to Help End the Call Detail Records Program, FreedomBox Foundation Launches the Pioneer Edition FreedomBox Home Server, Polyverse Announces CVE API Support, IBM Developers Working on System Call Isolation and Scientific Linux Discontinued

News briefs for April 26, 2019.

Nextcloud 16 Is Now Available, Facebook Open-Sources the C++ F14 Hash Table, the Prophet & The Warlock DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II Is Here, Nintendo Announces Closed Beta of Mario Kart Tour for Android and Google Earth Timelapse Updates

News briefs for April 25, 2019

Mozilla Publishes Its 2019 Internet Health Report, Pop!_OS 19.04 Is Now Available, the Free Software Dictionary Needs Your Help, GNOME Builder 3.331 Is Out and Rancher Labs Launches k3OS

News briefs for April 24, 2019.

Kodi 18.2 Released, SuperTuxKart 1.0 Is Here, New Strawberry Music Player for Sparky Linux, Fedora 30 Upgrade Test Day on Friday and Netcraft's April Web Server Survey

News briefs for April 23, 2019. Kodi 18.2 was released yesterday. This release brings several bug fixes and implements a new issue template and an automated verification system in the GitHub issue tracker. In addition, the Kodi team has optimized database access speed and made many improvements for the Android platform. You can see the full Changelog here.

Sam Hartman Is the New Debian Project Leader, Google Cuts Pixel 3 Prices for Project Fi's Birthday, Linux Kernel v5.1-rc6 Is Out, Kdenlive 19.04 Released and KMyMoney 5.0.4 Now Available

News briefs for April 22, 2019. Congrats to Sam Hartman, new Debian Project Leader! You can read more details about the election here, and read Sam's DPL 2019 Platform here.

The Mozilla IoT Team Announces Mozilla WebThings, LibreOffice 6.2.3 Released, LabPlot 2.6 Now Available, OpenJDK 11 Is Now the Default in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 19.04, and Zend Framework Heads to The Linux Foundation as the Laminas Project

News briefs for April 19, 2019.

Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" Released, Eclipse Foundation's 2019 IoT Developer Survey Results, OpenSSH 8.0 Now Available, digiKam 6.1.0 Is Out and Three New openSUSE Tumbleweeds Released

News briefs for April 18, 2019.

VirtualBox 6.0.6 Is Now Available, Red Hat Announces Stewardship of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Projects, Qt Creator 4.9.0 Released, Final Beta for Mageia 7 Out for Testing, and Debian 10 Buster in an Update Freeze

News briefs for April 17, 2019 VirtualBox 6.0.6 is now available. This maintenance release includes several bug fixes, added support for kernel 5.0 and 5.1 and "Oracle Critical Patch Updates" for April 2019. See the Changelog for the complete list of changes, and go here for download links.

Mozilla Announces the Hubs Discord Bot, Unity 2019.1 Now Available, Qt 5.13 Beta Is Out, Whitewater Foundry Launches Pengwin and the Valve Index VR Headset to Support Linux

News briefs for April 16, 2019.

New Flatpak Sandboxing Linux Package Management Platform Release, Ubuntu 19.04 Final Freeze Stage, New Version of Emacs Out, Reiser4 File System Now Supports Linux 5.0 Kernel, New Version of Wine Released

Flatpak, the sandboxing Linux package management platform, just announced the release of version 1.3.2 containing both security and stability enhancements. Ubuntu 19.04 is now officially in a Final Freeze stage. Its official release date is still scheduled for April 18.

Rust v1.34.0, NoScript Now in Chrome Web Store, PinePhone Sneak Peek, Purism Starts to Ship Pre-Built Binaries for BIOS Updates, Systemd 242 Released

The Rust programming language project has officially announced the release of version 1.34.0, the largest feature of which is the introduction of alternative cargo registries. Good news for NoScript users out there. The public beta of version 10.6.1 of the cross-browser plugin passed the Google review process and officially landed in the Chrome web store.

Red Hat Certified Engineer Program Changes, OpenStack v19 Released, XFCE Back in openSUSE Installer, GNOME 3.32.1 Marks First Point Release of 3.32

Red Hat has announced some changes with their Red Hat Certified Engineer program by focusing more on automation and updating the certification requirements.

E8Storage and ThinkParQ Work Together to Deliver Faster Backups, Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux Desktop, ZFS into Ubuntu Installer Update, GRUB v2.04 New Features, GhostBSD Released

The NVMe over Fabric array supplier, E8 Storage, is working with ThinkParQ's clustered parallel file system for Linux, BeeGFS to deliver faster backups of user data. Now that Microsoft's Edge browser is built on a Chromium base, it may eventually find itself on a Linux desktop near you.

GRUB 2.04-rc1 Released, Mozilla Designing Better Security Messages, Back Door Discovered in Compromised Version of bootstrap-sass, Lutris 0.5.2 Released and OpenVPN3 Linux v5 Beta Now Available

News briefs for April 9, 2019.

Xen Project Hypervisor 4.2 Released, You Now Can Build a Digital Etch-A-Sketch, GIMP 2.10.10 Now Available, Kernel 5.1-rc4 Is Out, WhiteSource Announces New Integration with Atlassian Bitbucket Server

News briefs for April 8, 2019.

Purism Partners with Private Internet Access for VPN, Mozilla Publishes Privacy Blueprint, Total War : WARHAMMER II--The Prophet & The Warlock Coming to Linux, Visual Studio Code Now Available as a Snap and Google Releases April Android Security Bulletin

News briefs for April 5, 2019.

Apache Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root Access

Apache HTTP web server users are being urged to update their servers to patch for a critical vulnerability that could give an attacker a way to gain root access. Researcher Charles Fol discovered the vulnerability and writes about it in detail here: https://cfreal.github.io/carpe-diem-cve-2019-0211-apache-local-root.html.