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There's nothing like waking up in the morning and finding out that two massive CPU vulnerabilities were found in practically every Intel CPU currently in use. You read on and find out that these vulnerabilities can result in all sorts of information disclosure and fundamentally break hardware memory protections. Better yet, there's no fix available for them yet for your platform. No, only Intel's high tier customers have gotten patches. The rest of us are stuck waiting for our kernels to get updated (through no fault of the kernel developers).... read more

Recently, Perl has been upgraded from 5.22 to 5.26 in Cucumber Linux 1.1. Once you upgrade Perl, it will be necessary to upgrade all of your cpan modules as well. This can be done by running cpan upgrade.

Scott

Work Begins on Cucumber Linux 1.1

A few days ago, the cucumber-1.0 tree was forked into the cucumber-1.1 tree, and now work has officially begun on Cucumber Linux 1.1. This release will be a minor release, meaning the following:

1. We will attempt to maintain ABI compatibility between 1.0 and 1.1 as much as possible.
2. We will not upgrade a package to a newer version unless it is absolutely necessary in order to continue getting upstream support.
3. We will make upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1 as easy and unintrusive as possible.... read more