2017 week 41 and some extras

Cauldron

The Mageia 7 feature proposals are being discussed more, as some of them are very large and will bring large changes to the distribution and installer, scoping the work and looking at the needed resources and timelines is a big job. The big 2 are moving more towards manatools and integrating dnf into the installer, implementing a shim for the existing urpmi commands and ensuring that there is no loss in functionality if we decide to switch for Mageia 7.

While not strictly a Cauldron piece of news, we will in all likelihood drop arm5tl and start to work towards building aarch64 and well as the current arm7hl.

Big changes in Cauldron this week include:

• rust 1.21.0
• kernel 4.13.7 – preliminary support for Coffee Lake (i915 alpha)
• wine 2.18
• R-base 3.4.2
• apache 2.4.28
• x11-server 1.19.5
• rpm 4.14.0
• vlc 3.0.0 (git snapshot with fix for drag and drop)

Mageia 6

There have been plenty of security updates for Mageia 6, here are a few of them:

• thunderbird-52.4.0-1 – Security fix
• weechat-1.7.1-1.1 – CVE fix
• pjproject-2.5.5-4.1 – CVE fixes
• dnsmasq-2.77-1.2 – multiple CVE fixes
• x11-server-1.19.4-1 – CVE fixes
• firefox-52.4.0-1 – multiple CVE fixes
• ghostscript-9.20-3.1 – multiple CVE fixes
• mariadb-10.1.28-1 – maintenance and bugfix release

Mageia 5

Similarly for Mageia 5, plenty of new updates:

• thunderbird-52.4.0-1 – Security fix
• weechat-0.4.1-7.2 – CVE fix
• pjproject-2.3-1.1 – CVE fixes
• dnsmasq-2.77-1.1 – multiple CVE fixes
• x11-server-1.16.4-2.3 – CVE fixes
• firefox-52.4.0-1 – multiple CVE fixes
• ghostscript-9.20-1.1 – multiple CVE fixes
• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-0.10.31-9.2 & gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-1.4.3-2.2 – multiple CVE fixes

Community

We have been having ongoing issues with spam and fraudulent accounts on our bugzilla so we introduced a special group which can edit bugs. We already added many relevant contributors to it. We think this is a temporary measure until we can properly test a more complete authentication system. Note that this change won’t effect your ability to post bugs. Just edit ones already posted, if there are issues from this, contacting the relevant mailing list should get it resolved quickly.