News briefs for March 15, 2019.
The JS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation are merging to form the OpenJS Foundation. ZDNet reports[1] that the Linux Foundation made the announcement this week at the Open Source Leadership Summit in Half Moon Bay, CA. The OpenJS Foundation's mission " is to support the growth of JavaScript and related web technologies by providing a neutral organization to host and sustain projects, and fund development activities. It's made up of 31 open-source JavaScript projects including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, Node.js, and webpack."
GNOME 3.32 Taipei was released this week[2]. This version represents 6 months of work by the GNOME Community and includes many improvements and new features. The visual style has been refreshed with an brand-new set of app icons. It also "introduces an experimental feature for Wayland desktop sessions that enables fractional scaling". And, data structure improvements in the GNOME desktop have caused a " faster, snappier feel to the animations, icons and top 'shell' panel". See the release notes[3] for more details on all the changes and enhancements.
Qt 5.12.2 was released today[4]. This is the second patch release of Qt 5.12 LTS and contains more than 250 bug fixes. See the Change Files[5] for the full list of changes.
Canonical yesterday released a new Linux kernel update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) to fix a recently discovered vulnerability. According to Softpedia News[6], the security issue affects Linux kernel 3.13 and is "race condition (CVE-2019-6133[7]) discovered by Jann Horn of Google Project Zero in Linux kernel's fork() system call, which could allow a local attacker to gain access to services storing cache authorizations and run programs with administrative privileges." Users should update immediately.
The Debian GNU/Linux project has extended the date