Dec-12-2019 Weekly Edition

• OpenBSD system-call-origin   verification: a new anti-ROP approach from OpenBSD.
• Debian votes on init systems: the   voting to determine the Debian project's position on init systems (and   systemd in particular) has begun.
• The end of the 5.5 merge window:   another 6,000 patches worth of new stuff goes into the kernel.
• Developers split over split-lock   detection: should this feature be on by default, even if it might   break some applications?
• Working toward securing PyPI   downloads: the process of securing the Python Package Index is slow   and halting.
• New features for the Kubernetes   scheduler: what the core Kubernetes developers are up to.

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