Category Archives: security

Fosdem 2018 – and a very little roundup

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

Before we get to FOSDEM, an important update came through in the last few hours – this follows tmb’s explanation from the last roundup: MGASA-2018-0125 – Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 11 Feb 2018 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0125.html Type: security … Continue reading →

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Weekly Roundup 2018 – Week 5

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

The flood of updates has slowed a little this week: sox (Mga 5, 6); java-1.8.0-openjdk (Mga 5,6); rsyncMga 5,6; gdk-pixbuf2.0 (Mga5) – as always, check Mageia Advisories for details. Along with the 409 updates that have gone into Cauldron, there’s … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 14

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Infrastructure So sadly the big news this week is the outage of two of our servers for needed upgrades. The status of the services that are down can be read here. Our sysadmins have been hard at work, already pushing … Continue reading →

Posted in Atelier, community, packager, QA, release, security, sysadmin, Weekly roundup | 8 Comments

Web services shut down preventively

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

Our sysadmins decided to preventively shut down most of our web services which were still running on end-of-life Mageia versions, as their potential vulnerability to remote attacks was publicised in third party communities. The migration of those services to Mageia 5 servers … Continue reading →

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Weekly roundup – 2017, week 8

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Donald Stewart

So, this weekly roundup is a new thing that we were wanting to try, with the hope that it will bring more attention to the day to day changes in both Mageia 5 and Cauldron, and what the various teams … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, community, Mageia, QA, security | 23 Comments