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Ubuntu's Server Installer Was Mistakenly Leaking Encrypted Storage Passphrase To Its Log

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 22:18
With the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Ubuntu Server installer exclusively uses the "Subiquity" installer that Canonical has been working on in recent years in moving away from the classic Debian Installer. Unfortunately a security issue crept into Subiquity that has now been resolved...

Intel's Load Hardening Mitigation Merged Into LLVM 11 For LVI Protection

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 21:55
Intel's Load Value Injection mitigation has finally been merged into mainline LLVM...

Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 19:15
Qt 5.15 is aiming to release next week while today marks the availability of the toolkit's second release candidate...

WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 19:05
With the WireGuard secure VPN tunnel having been upstreamed in the Linux 5.6 kernel, developer attention recently turned to OpenBSD and porting the very promising VPN technology to its kernel...

Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 18:43
Version 6.2 of the Proxmox VE open-source virtualization environment has been released for this web-based, easy-to-use solution...

FlightGear 2020.1 Released For This Open-Source Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 18:30
FlightGear 2020.1 is out as the newest release to this long-running project providing an open-source flight simulator...

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