LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 12, 2017

Posted Jan 12, 2017 2:18 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 12, 2017 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: Desktop critical infrastructure; getrandom() in glibc.
Security: SipHash in the kernel; New vulnerabilities in kernel, kopete, syncthing, webkit2gtk, ...
Kernel: The control-group BPF ABI; Bulk memory allocation.
Distributions: Rethinking Fedora multilib support; Debian, Fedora, RHEL, ...
Development: Python 2.8?; digiKam, Synfig Studio, ...
Announcements: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot, Tracing Summit 2016 videos, FSFE Annual Report 2016, ...