Articles

The OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020

Allan Jude did a two-part summary of the OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020, including links to the streams.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-developer-summit-part-1/

https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-developer-summit-part-2/

Rust After the Honeymoon

Bryan Cantrill talks about his hands-on experience with Rust at Oxide.

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeymoon/

Dockerfile Security Best Practices

This blog post lists some essential tips regarding Dockerfile security, including how to detect possible issues.

https://cloudberry.engineering/article/dockerfile-security-best-practices/

Embracing Asynchronous Communication

»Async 3.0 is a feature set that supports and streamlines the variety of communication approaches, emphasizing comprehension and consideration, rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all approach.«

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/

Incidents and Vulnerabilities

Remote Code Execution in Windows TCP/IP-Stack

»A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.«

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16898

Videos

Distributed HPC Applications with Unprivileged Containers

In this talk, NVIDIA engineers present https://github.com/NVIDIA/enroot, a lightweight container runtime inspired by LXC, managed by a Slurm Workload Manager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKmk9-qkwY

The State of (Full) Text Search in PostgreSQL 12

If you are interested in the concepts involved in searching for text in PostgreSQL, watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MTOFWQ0efY

Releases and Projects

Linux 5.9

Kernel 5.9 brings many new drivers, ZSTD compression, FSGSBASE support, file-system patches, and better management of anonymous memory. For a detailed list of changes, see the links below.

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.9

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi-u86++np80GQvgDuARdt9xpBNho6SjHLmYgm8jibGag@mail.gmail.com/

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.9

LLVM 11

The new LLVM version comes with C++20 support and a flang Fortran frontend. Also, the llgo frontend was removed for now. In FreeBSD, this new release version of LLVM is already available in the pkg repositories.

https://releases.llvm.org/11.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Plasma 5.20

Plasma has come a long way since its first release in 2014; this is, once again, a release with many improvements that make the Plasma desktop experience even better.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0

curl 7.73.0

curl now comes with a new --output-dir flag, and --curves option for OpenSSL.

https://curl.haxx.se/changes.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYXC0Cr-dQ

zheap

zheap is a new PostgreSQL storage capable of running UPDATE-intense workloads more efficiently. zhep is maintained by CYBERTEC and is still in the early development phase.

https://cybertec-postgresql.github.io/zheap/

DigitalOcean App Platform

DigitalOcean is now offering a Platform as a Service.

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-app-platform-reimagining-paas-to-make-it-simpler-for-you-to-build-deploy-and-scale-apps

Canonical Announces HA Clustering in MicroK8s

Canonical’s lightweight Kubernetes environment MicroK8s now supports HA clustering, using their Dqlite distributed SQL engine.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-enhances-kubernetes-reliability-for-edge-iot-and-multi-cloud

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