2018-01-09 - Linux316, Nvidia, GCC, Octopi, Firefox (Testing Update)

[Blueriver]

Hi community,

this is more or less the boost rebuild. We also added some more fixes to gcc, which prevents issues with Spectre and Meltdown. Additionally we fixed some issues within Nvidia drivers and Octopi, updated our Firefox developer edition. linux316 gained the needed KPTI patches.

About our effort and all the needed information about the new security risk can be found here.

So please report back and give us feedback for given changes made to our repositories. Users of our 32-bit Distro should read this.


Current supported Kernels

linux316 3.16.53
linux318 3.18.91 [EOL]
linux41 4.1.48
linux44 4.4.109
linux49 4.9.74
linux412 4.12.14 [EOL]
linux413 4.13.16 [EOL]
linux414 4.14.12
linux415 4.15-rc6
linux-RT-LTS 4.9.68_rt60
linux-RT 4.11.12_rt16

Package Updates (Tue Jan 9 21:19:43 CET 2018)

testing community x86_64: 189 new and 184 removed package(s)
testing core x86_64: 13 new and 13 removed package(s)
testing extra x86_64: 31 new and 32 removed package(s)
testing multilib x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)

Quelle

[Blueriver]

Alles bestens.