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Become an Early Adopter With the Gutenberg Plugin

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

Become an Early Adopter With the Gutenberg Plugin Copy by Anne McCarthy (@annezazu) and Design by Mel Choyce-Dwan (@melchoyce) In WordPress circles (whether it’s your local meetup, a trusted publication, or your networking group), you may have heard terms like Core Editor, Gutenberg, and the Block Editor used interchangeably over the last four years. And if you’re following contributor work on the project itself, you may also have heard some additional nuances—Gutenberg plugin, Gutenberg, or Block Editor.  It can get a little confusing, so let’s take a look at four terms that will help you find your way:  WordPress – WordPress refers to the open source software but also to the community that surrounds it.  Gutenberg – Gutenberg is the code name for a multi-year project to update editing areas for the WordPress software. Editor – The editor refers to [ more… ]

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USN-4916-2: Linux kernel regression

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

USN-4916-2: Linux kernel regression USN-4916-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2021-3493 introduced a memory leak in some situations. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2021-3493) Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF JIT compiler for x86 in the Linux kernel did not properly validate computation of branch displacements in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-29154) Source: USN-4916-2: Linux kernel regression

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MySQL Shell 8.0.24 – What’s New?

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

MySQL Shell 8.0.24 – What’s New? The MySQL team is proud to announce the general availability of version 8.0.24 of the MySQL Shell. In addition to a considerable number of bugs fixed, the following changes were introduced. Improved Command Line Integration Integrating the shell functionality in DevOps operations is a key feature and this release has introduced a big improvement on this area being the most remarkable improvements the following: No longer need to execute APIs using the –execute (-e) command line argument: all of the data required for any API available in CLI can be defined through command line arguments (including lists). … Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Source: MySQL Shell 8.0.24 – What’s New?

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InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11 Atomics (or GCC intrinsics) were first introduced in InnoDB (5.0) by a patch  from Mark Callaghan’s team at Google for mutexes and rw-locks. InnoDB code then was written in C.  When the code was ported to C++ ,  part of the 5.6 release, there was no C++ standard for atomics.… Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Source: InnoDB: Converting old atomic code to C++11

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364

2021-04-22 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 21364 Run Linux GUI applications directly on Windows using the first preview of GUI app support on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) The Windows Subsystem for Linux now includes a first preview of support for GUI applications! This means you can now run your favorite GUI editors, tools, and applications, to develop, test, build and run your Linux apps! Please view the video below for a demo: For more info on this change please view this blog post. Task Manager supports Microsoft Edge process classification We partnered with the Microsoft Edge team to support process classification in Task Manager. This will help you to identify resource consumption under [ more… ]