[07:36] schestowitz[07:36] schestowitzAs is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.
[07:36] schestowitzThis report covers hrev57127 through hrev57183.
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[07:38] schestowitz[07:38] schestowitzThe project was started in 1993 by the late Ian Murdock and now has more than 1000 developers in its ranks. It has three streams of development - stable, testing and unstable - which cater to the most conservative of users and also those who are prepared to fix their systems every single day.
[07:38] schestowitzA statement from the project said its technology was present in cluster systems, data centres, desktop computers, embedded systems, IoT devices, laptops, servers, and possibly the Web server and device you are reading this article on. It can also be found in Spacecraft.
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[07:44] schestowitz[07:44] schestowitzAfter two weeks of bug fixing, it is already time for the second 5.2 beta! In addition to the changes that 5.2 brings, we have fixed the following bugs in this second beta: [...]
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[07:44] schestowitz[07:44] schestowitzThe advanced OpenZFS filesystem is getting close to its next release, version 2.2, with release candidate 3 (around this time last year, OpenZFS 2.1 got to rc8, so it might be a little while yet). Version 2.2 will improve support for Linux containers, with support for overlay filesystems (sometimes also called union filesystems), support for Linux 6.3 IDmapped mounts (which are explained in this talk), [07:44] schestowitz and delegation of dataset namespaces to containers.
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[07:50] schestowitz[07:50] schestowitzThe BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team investigated a campaign by this threat group conducted in June that culminated in attacks on an organization within the critical infrastructure sector in the United States, and also on an IT integrator in Latin America. The Cuba threat group, believed to be of Russian origin, deployed a set of malicious tools that overlapped with prev [07:50] schestowitz ious campaigns associated with this attacker, as well as introducing new ones including the first observed use of an exploit for the Veeam vulnerability CVE-2023-27532.
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[07:54] schestowitz[07:54] schestowitzPDF's drawing model inherits from PostScript, which was originally designed in the early 80s. It works and is really nice but the one glaring hole it has is missing transparency support. The original PDF spec from 1993 has no transparency support either, it was added in version 1.4 that came out mere 8 years later in 2001.
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