News briefs for August 13, 2018.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation launched the Academy Software Foundation[1] late last week. The ASF's mission is to "increase the quality and quantity of contributions to the content creation industry's open source software base; to provide a neutral forum to coordinate cross-project efforts; to provide a common build and test infrastructure; and to provide individuals and organizations a clear path to participation in advancing our open source ecosystem". Interested developers can sign up to join the mailing list here[2].
The Linux 4.18 kernel is out[3]. See this Phoronix post[4] for a list of the best features of this new kernel.
And, the GNU Linux-libre 4.18-gnu deblobbed version[5], which removes all non-free components from Linux, is now available as well. You can find dources and tarballs here[6].
DXVK 0.65, a Vulkan-based library for running Direct3D 11 games in Wine, has been released. According to GamingOnLinux[7], the new version provides "better configuration for various games out of the box", along with several other fixes.
Canonical recently released a new Linux kernel live patch for all of its supported Ubuntu Linux operating system releases to address various security vulnerabilities, including the recent TCP flaw (CVE-2018-5390[8]) and a few others (CVE-2018-13405[9], CVE-2018-13094[10], CVE-2018-1094[11] and CVE-2018-11506[12]). Update now if you haven't already. (Source: Softpedia News[13].)
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