Weekly Roundup 2018: Weeks 9 & 10

Finally, another Roundup!

Updates

706 packages came into updates/testing in the last two weeks! If ever you thought of helping out the QA team, now would be a really good time. Here are the updates that have come through since the previous Roundup:

Security (only one for Mga5):

libraw, mbedtls, shadowsocks-libev, bctoolbox, hiawatha, dolphin-emu, 389-ds-base, tor, dovecot, glibc, xerces-c, xv, phpmyadmin, krb5, leptonica, libvirt, python-libvirt, TiMidity++ (also for Mga5), wireshark, tomcat-native, tomcat, ioquake3

Bugfix (Mga6 only):

x11-driver-video-ati, perl-Youri-Package, rpmlint-mageia-policy, mhonarc, kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, virtualbox, mesa, libdrm, networkmanager-applet, kmymoney, kernel-firmware-nonfree, libdvdcss

As always, you can check for yourself on Mageia Advisories, the Mageia AppDB, PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.

Mageia AppDB – granular searches

When you first open MageiaAppDB and click on Updates in the left-hand menu, you see the default settings: But you can get lots more granular information using the set of drop-down menus across the top of the packages list:First click More at the far right, and then you can apply a lot more filters to your search. For instance, to see what updates our kernel magician tmb has updated in Cauldron kernels recently:

As you add more filters, you should see changes in your browser address bar, so you can also bookmark particular searches.

Enjoy!