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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 23, 2013 (One big page)

• Front: Google's draft VP8 patent license; Moodle 2.5.
• Security: DeadDrop and Strongbox; New vulnerabilities in kernel, openswan, openvpn, thunderbird, ...
• Kernel: Ktap; Low-latency Ethernet device polling; An unexpected perf feature.
• Distributions: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance; Debian GNU/Hurd, Mageia, NetBSD, Pidora, ...
• Development: An "enum" for Python 3; Python and implicit string concatenation; QEMU 1.5.0; Blender for 3D printing; ...
• Announcements: Ten years of Groklaw, Sony opens up the Xperia Tablet Z, events...

• Front: XBMC on/for Android; DRM in HTML5 published; PyPy 2.0
• Security: Linux web servers pushing malware; New vulnerabilities in gpsd, httpd, java, kernel, ...
• Kernel: copy_range(); 3.10 merge window conclusion; Smarter shrinkers; User-space page fault handling.
• Distributions: Always-releasable Debian; Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
• Development: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta; Packetfence 4.0; Go 1.1; Tahoe-LAFS 1.10; ...
• Announcements: Linux Foundation New Members; no software patents in New Zealand, events.

• Front: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles; Miro 6, video, and the web; A $99 supercomputer.
• Security: IBM's homomorphic encryption library; New vulnerabilities in kernel, mesa, phpmyadmin, xen, ...
• Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 2; Full tickless; LLVMLinux.
• Distributions: Defining the Fedora user base; Debian, openSUSE Edu Li-f-e, ...
• Development: Glibc; Adobe's CFF rasterizer; Geary crowdfunding; spreading the word about your code; ...
• Announcements: OSI Board Changes, VP8 Patent Cross-license Agreement, Flock, ...

• Front: Outreach Program for Women; Google Test Automation Conference; The value of FOSS fiscal sponsorship.
• Security: Code authenticity checking; New vulnerabilities in clamav, kernel, qemu, strongswan, ...
• Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 1; Wait/wound mutexes; LSFMM coverage complete.
• Distributions: x32 ABI support by distributions; DragonFly, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, ...
• Development: Go and Rust; GDB 7.6; Open Build Service 2.4; OpenShot fundraising update; ...
• Announcements: SFC to create accounting software, FSF certifies ThinkPenguin, events.

• Front: Font development trends; More Libre Graphics Meeting coverage; GPLv3 in automobiles.
• Security: Ubuntu app confinement; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, mysql, xen, ...
• Kernel: Narrow bitmasks; Nonvolatile memory devices; LSFMM Summit 2013.
• Distributions: Fedora 19 alpha; Debian, ROSA ABF, ...
• Development: Dynamic linking and derivative works; The $12 Gongkai Phone; MySQL 5.7.1; Feed reading on the open web; ...
• Announcements: Germany and software patents, SkySQL and Monty Program, SFC appoints new director, ...

• Front: Collaboration and animation at LGM; Surveying open source licenses; Current challenges in the free software ecosystem; GNOME 3.8.
• Security: Mixed web content; New vulnerabilities in curl, kernel, krb5, xen, ...
• Kernel: 3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management.
• Distributions: Upstart for user sessions; Fuduntu, openSUSE, Pardus, ...
• Development: Rust; The future of Python 2; Freedesktop summit; KlyDE; ...
• Announcements: Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project, IFOSSLR 5.1 available, OPW, ...

• Front: Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience; Legal issues from a radical community angle; Vulnerability handling in the PostgreSQL project.
• Security: Entropy Broker; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kernel, postgresql, samba, ...
• Kernel: Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler.
• Distributions: Tanglu: bringing Debian testing to the masses; Ubuntu, Fedora, ...
• Development: Python IDLE; Persona beta 2; Emacs Conference videos; xkbcommon; ...
• Announcements: OASIS gains ANSI accreditation, the OpenDaylight Project, GSoC mentoring organizations, ...

• Front: Python Software Foundation; VP8 patent wars; PyDAW.
• Security: Exploiting digital cameras; New vulnerabilities in bind, glibc, mantis, moodle, ...
• Kernel: Per-process reclaim; A VFS deadlock post-mortem; In-kernel memory compression.
• Distributions: Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming; Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, Firefox OS, ...
• Development: Python bytecodes; crowdfunding Geary; new browser engines; C++14 papers; ...
• Announcements: Subsurface mourns Jan Schubert, software patents, 15 years of Mozilla, crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, ...

• Front: StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io; Protecting communities; Evangelizing Python.
• Security: OpenSSH 6.2; New vulnerabilities in gnome-online-accounts, kernel, libxml2, privoxy, ...
• Kernel: Breaking GlusterFS; Widening ext4's readdir() cookie; Multipath TCP.
• Distributions: GNOME, Fedora, and login-screen logos; Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, ...
• Development: Asynchronous I/O in Python; GNOME 3.8; C and C++ speed in GCC; replacing Google Reader; ...
• Announcements: Awards for Bassel Khartabil and the TAZ, LF EEU report, videos for PyCon and devconf.cz, ...

• Front: Upholding first sale; Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi; When does the FSF own your code?
• Security: Mozilla Persona; New vulnerabilities in chromium, clamav, poppler, wireshark, ...
• Kernel: The trouble with DMA masks; Anatomy of a user namespaces vulnerability.
• Distributions: Debian Project Leader election draws near; Debian, Tanglu, ...
• Development: GCC 4.8.0 approaching; Open Badges 1.0; Geary 0.3; FreeDV Robustness; ...
• Announcements: Goodbye Malcolm Tredinnick, GSoC mentors, PSF ends trademark dispute, Tor report, ...

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