Fedora Weekly News Issue 56
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-07-24
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Welcome to our issue number 56 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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FC6 Test2 Freeze Slip
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) announces in fedora-maintainers (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-July/msg00360.html):
With the update to a 2.6.18-rc based kernel, Xen requires some more effort to get to working. Given that Xen is one of the big features for Fedora Core 6, trying to ship the second test release (and thus the feature freeze) without Xen seems like a less than ideal situation.
Therefore, after discussion within the Fedora Board, we have decided to slip the freeze for test2 until Xen is working again with current kernels. Based on current estimates, it looks like this should hopefully be Monday, 24 July. We'll continue to provide updates as more information is available.
End of Life times for FC1, FC2, RHL7.3 and RHL9
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) announces in fedora-legacy-announce (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-July/msg00000.html):
With Fedora Core 6 Test 2 set to be released July 26th, it is time we announce the End of Life of our various Legacy supported releases.
After much discussion on fedora-legacy-list and the #fedora-legacy IRC channel on the freenode network, we have decided to end of life the following releases when FC6 Test2 is released: Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2. This will leave us with supporting just releases 3 and 4 of Fedora Core.
As to our Red Hat Linux releases (7.3 and 9) the following has been decided: New issues (bugs) will be accepted until October 1st of this year. No new bugs will be accepted after that mark. All existing bugs will be resolved to the best of our ability by December 31st of this year. What hasn't been completed by then will not be completed by the Fedora Legacy project. This will be the end of Fedora Legacy's support of the Red Hat Linux line of distributions.
Introducing Fedora Women
Patrick W. Barnes (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-July/msg00003.html):
In an effort to support the women who use and develop Fedora, the Fedora Women program was launched last week. This new program provides a forum for communication between the women of Fedora, and it will eventually offer additional support to the women that help make Fedora what it is.
Fedora at O'reilly OSCON 2006
Jack Aboutboul (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JackAboutboul) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-July/msg00005.html):
All are invited to join the Fedora Project at the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON 2006) on July 24-28 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. Fedora will be proudly exhibiting in the .org pavilion and running a Birds of a Feather sessions.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/
Kernel Privilege Esclation Exploit for CVE-2006-3626
Mark Cox (http://people.redhat.com/mjc/) points out in his blog (http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/security/200607171008.html):
On Friday 14th July an exploit was widely posted for a vulnerability in the Linux 2.6 kernel, CVE-2006-3626 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2006-3626), which attempts to allow a local user to gain root privileges. The exploit relies on the kernel supporting the a.out binary format.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 4, and Fedora Core 5 do not support the a.out binary format, causing the exploit to fail. We are not currently aware of any way to exploit this vulnerability if a.out binary format is not enabled. In addition, a default installation of these OS enables SELinux in enforcing mode. SELinux also completely blocks attempts to exploit this issue (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2006-July/msg00071.html)
NewsForge: New Fedora test lead begins work
According to recent article at NewsForge (http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/07/11/1431207.shtml?tid=138&tid=2):
"I really want people to think of testing as part of development," Woods says. "That's a common theme in proper software engineering. Once something matures to a certain point, you have to start doing rigorous regression testing and things of that nature. I think the open source community needs some of that. It's not that I really need to tell people -- people know that testing is important. My real goal is to make testing easier." By integrating Red Hat's internal testing software into Fedora and bringing rigor to Fedora's testing, Woods hopes to bring some of that ease not just to Fedora, but to free software in general -- and, incidentally, to silence Fedora's detractors once and for all.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-07-17
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of July 17 - July 23, Fedora Project released 12 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 04 Security Advisory.
During the week of July 17 - July 23, Fedora Project released 27 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 05 Security Advisory.
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