Babylon.js 4.0 Is Here!

2019-05-01 KENNETH 0

Babylon.js 4.0 Is Here! We cannot be more excited to share that Babylon.js 4.0 has officially been released. This version of Babylon.js is a major step forward in one of the world’s leading WebGL-based, graphics engines. Babylon.js 4.0 represents an incredible amount of hard work by a very passionate community of developers from around the world, and it is our honor to share it with all of you. From a new visual scene inspector, best-in-class physically-based rendering, countless performance optimizations, and much more, Babylon.js 4.0 brings powerful, beautiful, simple, and open 3D to everyone on the web. Babylon.js has come a long way from its humble beginnings, and version 4.0 is our biggest update yet. Visual Scene Inspector Along with new capabilities in the Babylon.js engine, we also want to improve the overall development experience with better debugging tools. Babylon.js [ more… ]

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USN-3961-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

2019-05-01 KENNETH 0

USN-3961-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities dovecot vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.10 Summary Dovecot could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description dovecot – IMAP and POP3 email server Details It was discovered that the Dovecot Submission login service incorrectly handled certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 dovecot-core – 1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.2 dovecot-submissiond – 1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 18.10 dovecot-core – 1:2.3.2.1-1ubuntu3.4 dovecot-submissiond – 1:2.3.2.1-1ubuntu3.4 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-11494 CVE-2019-11499 Source: USN-3961-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

Find out how Dell helps ‘American Idol’ judge Randy Jackson and communications expert Rakia Reynolds

2019-05-01 KENNETH 0

Find out how Dell helps ‘American Idol’ judge Randy Jackson and communications expert Rakia Reynolds As a judge on “American Idol” for 13 years, Jackson had to constantly assess contestants and their potential, gauging who had that It factor that would propel them into superstardom. You’ve probably heard of some of them: Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert. Jackson had a lot of experience to make those calls. Catching the music bug when he was 14, listening to his brother’s band rehearse in their mother’s garage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he would go on to play with Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and many others. By the time he was a fixture in American living rooms and mobile devices, he had racked up a long list of big names he’d played bass with, such as [ more… ]

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USN-3960-1: WavPack vulnerability

2019-04-30 KENNETH 0

USN-3960-1: WavPack vulnerability wavpack vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary WavPack could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted file. Software Description wavpack – audio codec (lossy and lossless) – encoder and decoder Details It was discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain DFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 libwavpack1 – 5.1.0-5ubuntu0.1 wavpack – 5.1.0-5ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.10 libwavpack1 – 5.1.0-4ubuntu0.2 wavpack – 5.1.0-4ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libwavpack1 – 5.1.0-2ubuntu1.3 wavpack – 5.1.0-2ubuntu1.3 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-11498 Source: USN-3960-1: [ more… ]

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MySQL 8.0.16: mysql_upgrade is going away

2019-04-30 KENNETH 0

MySQL 8.0.16: mysql_upgrade is going away As of 8.0.16, the mysql_upgrade binary is deprecated, but its functionality is moved into the server. Let’s call this functionality the “server upgrade”. This is added alongside the Data Dictionary upgrade (DD Upgrade), which is a process to update the data dictionary table definitions.… Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Source: MySQL 8.0.16: mysql_upgrade is going away