Morten Linderud

F/OSS Developer, Arch Linux Developer and security team.

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FOSS Activities in January 2021
Feb 1, 2021
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Tags: foss monthly archlinux english

And January is over! Time has frankly been moving fast the past days.

Packaging wise, things has been fine. Added tailscale and some other minor packages, but had a real purge of old packages from resigned maintainers. Also dropped ntop to the AUR which hasn’t been actively developed for years at this point. I’m curious when people are going to bug me about that one :)

On the security side of things there has been quite a lot happening just the past week. sudo had CVE-2021-3156 and libgcrypt had CVE-2021-3345 which are both are quite severe. My personal take is that the sudo one bad, but not that bad. While libgcrypt is a bit more terrible considering the data is parsed before it’s authenticated. However both was patched fairly quickly in Arch.

In other news things are moving fine on different projects. Did some progress on finishing up debuginfod on the infrastructure side. Not that much happening on the dbscripts side of things. Slowly been hacking away on some CVE tracking for the security team, but the CVE dataset is a mess. Among more exciting stuff I have submitted some WIP UEFI structs for ImHex which is a neat hex editor.

I have 3-4 blog posts about Arch Conf and archlinux-repro rework that I have in the pipeline. But been a bit lazy in the evenings rewatching Halt and Catch Fire (which is a terrific TV show).

Other then that I have a talk about sbctl this weekend for FOSDEM. Improving the Secure Boot landscape: sbctl & go-uefi.

Enjoy this weeks summary and stay safe!

Package Updates to [community]

  • python-milc updated to 1.0.12-1, 1.0.13-1
  • python-reportlab updated to 3.5.59-1, 3.5.60-1
  • python-pygame updated to 2.0.1-1
  • python-typed-ast updated to 1.4.2-1
  • v2ray updated to 4.34.0-1
  • fzf updated to 0.25.0-1
  • jgmenu updated to 4.3.0-1
  • libmd updated to 1.0.3-1
  • plocate updated to 1.1.3-2
  • toolbox updated to 0.0.98-1, 0.0.98.1-1, 0.0.99-1
  • gopls updated to 0.6.2-1, 0.6.3-1, 0.6.4-1
  • python-prompt_toolkit updated to 3.0.9-1, 3.0.11-1, 3.0.13-1, 3.0.14-1
  • minicom updated to 2.8-1
  • lxd updated to 4.10-1
  • python-prompt_toolkit updated to 3.0.10-1
  • python-pandas updated to 1.2.0-1
  • buildah updated to 1.19.0-1, 1.19.2-1, 1.19.3-1
  • skopeo updated to 1.2.1-1
  • gopass updated to 1.11.0-1
  • qmk updated to 0.0.39-1
  • perl-type-tiny updated to 1.012001-1
  • git-lfs updated to 2.13.2-1
  • font-awesome updated to 5.15.2-1
  • conmon updated to 1:2.0.23-1, 1:2.0.24-1, 1:2.0.25-1
  • helm updated to 3.5.0-1, 3.5.1-1
  • buildah updated to 1.19.2-1
  • python-google-api-core updated to 1.25.0-1, 1.25.1-1
  • docker-compose updated to 1.28.0-1, 1.28.2-1
  • nvme-cli updated to 1.13-2
  • go updated to 2:1.15.7-1
  • staticcheck updated to 2020.2.1-1
  • github-cli updated to 1.5.0-1
  • fuse-overlayfs updated to 1.4.0-1
  • crun updated to 0.17-1
  • udiskie updated to 2.3.0-1, 2.3.2-1
  • screenkey updated to 1.4.1-1
  • yubikey-manager updated to 3.1.2-1
  • hy updated to 0.20.0-1
  • pdfjs updated to 2.7.570-1
  • cni-plugins updated to 0.9.0-5
  • perl-gnupg-interface updated to 1.01-1
  • qutebrowser updated to 2.0.0-1, 2.0.1-1
  • tailscale updated to 1.4.0-1, 1.4.1-1
  • python-adblock updated to 0.4.1-1
  • delve updated to 1.6.0-1
  • step-cli updated to 0.15.3-1

Package additions to [community]

  • tailscale
  • step-ca

Package removals to [community]

  • eric
  • eric-i18n
  • pychecker
  • canorus
  • julius
  • libasl
  • python-pmw
  • libmatio
  • pdfsam
  • voxforge-am-julius
  • g15daemon
  • libg15
  • libg15render
  • libco
  • sqlite-replication
  • ntop

Potential new packages for [community]

  • oomd
  • vgrep
  • git-publish
  • b4
  • psi-notify
  • etcd
  • micro

Bugfixes

  • plocate: Should enable the timer, nor the service. Slight typi there!
  • nvme-cli: Fixed FS#69374
    • Some dracut warning. Backported upstream patch.
  • cni-plugins: Fixed FS#69276
    • Had to copy the binaries into /opt/cni/bin
  • hy: Fixed FS#69390
    • Removed python-clint for python-colorama

Security Team

We have published 45 advisories this month. We have in total published 1000 advisories since the tracker was deployed in 2016!

Other things…

Cheers!


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