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News briefs for July 22, 2019.

Linux kernel 5.3-rc1 has been released. Linus Torvalds writes[2], "This is a pretty big release, judging by the commit count. Not the biggest ever (that honor still goes to 4.9-rc1, which was exceptionally big), and we've had a couple of comparable ones (4.12, 4.15 and 4.19 were also big merge windows), but it's definitely up there." He also notes that "...there's a lot to like in 5.3."

German cybersecurity watchdog CERT-Bund recently discovered a security flaw in the VLC media player 3.0.7.1.
Softpedia News reports[3] that "a successful exploit of the vulnerability allows for unauthorized disclosure of information, unauthorized modification of files, and disruption of service." See CVE-2019-13615[4] for specifics. A patch is in the works.

Melissa Di Donato has been appointed CEO of SUSE. From

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