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Gentoo congratulates our GSoC participants (Sep 7, 2018)

GSOC logo Gentoo would like to congratulate Gibix and JSteward for finishing and passing Google’s Summer of Code for the 2018 calendar year. Gibix contributed by enhancing Rust (programming language) support within Gentoo. JSteward contributed by making a full Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution, managed by Portage, run on devices which use the original Android-customized kernel.

The final reports of their projects can be reviewed on their personal blogs:

Developer blogs live from Planet Gentoo

Alexys Jacob Scylla Summit 2018 write-up
Michał Górny Portability of tar features
Alexys Jacob py3status v3.14
Alexys Jacob py3status v3.13
Michał Górny New copyright policy explained

Security advisories from our Security database

GLSA 201812-11 Rust: Multiple vulnerabilities normal
GLSA 201812-10 GKSu: Arbitrary command execution normal
GLSA 201812-09 Go: Multiple vulnerabilities normal
GLSA 201812-08 Scala: Privilege escalation normal
GLSA 201812-07 SpamAssassin: Multiple vulnerabilities normal

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

terraform A tool for building, changing, and combining infrastructure safely
libldac LDAC codec library from AOSP
pulseaudio-modules-bt PulseAudio modules for LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, and AAC for Bluetooth (alongside SBC and native+ofono headset)
B-Flags Friendlier flags for B
B-Debug Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

Glibc 2.28 porting notes/testsuite started by Dilfridge
Zoom H1 Recorder started by Js0hthwa
Asus X205TA started by Sirplatypus
HP EliteBook 840 G2 started by Ostorga
ASUS UX410UAR started by Elacheche