Weekly roundup 2017 – week 17

Cauldron

A quick update on the ISO progress – the Classical ISOs are looking good, although there was a bug with the Mate Menu which has been fixed, but another rebuild will be needed to get the fix onto the ISOs. The latest build of the Live ISOs fixed bugs with the installer crashing on systems with low memory and added boot entries to enable nonfree drivers.

Updates wise, there has been good activity. Here is a small selection:

• kernel 4.9.25
• flatpak 0.9.3
• nautilus 3.24.1
• phoronix-test-suite 7.0.1
• mesa 17.0.4
• thunderbird 52.0.1
• virtualbox 5.1.20

And many many more!

Mageia 5

As the web facing nature of browsers and flash, the updates announced for chromium and flash player last week should now be on the mirrors and available, so if you haven’t updated yet, it’s advised to do so. Other updates this week include:

• proftpd 1.3.5e – fixes CVE -2017-7418
• icu 53.1-12.7 – CVE fixes
• tomcat 7.0.77 – CVE fixes
• firefox 52.1 – Numerous CVE fixes

With more already added to the validation queue keeping the QA team busy.