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Hardened Linux kernel sources removal (Aug 19, 2017)

As you may know the core of sys-kernel/hardened-sources has been the grsecurity patches. Recently the grsecurity developers have decided to limit access to these patches. As a result, the Gentoo Hardened team is unable to ensure a regular patching schedule and therefore the security of the users of these kernel sources. Thus, we will be masking hardened-sources on the 27th of August and will proceed to remove them from the main ebuild repository by the end of September. We recommend to use sys-kernel/gentoo-sources instead. Userspace hardening and support for SELinux will of course remain in the Gentoo ebuild repository. Please see the full news item for additional information and links.

Developer blogs live from Planet Gentoo

Michael Palimaka Helper scripts for CMake-based ebuilds
Alexys Jacob py3status v3.7
Nathan Zachary Python’s M2Crypto fails to compile
Alice Ferrazzi Latex 001
Alice Ferrazzi Google-Summer-of-Code-summary week08

Security advisories from our Security database

GLSA 201712-04 cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities normal
GLSA 201712-03 OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities normal
GLSA 201712-02 OpenCV: Multiple vulnerabilities normal
GLSA 201712-01 WebKitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities normal
GLSA 201711-16 CouchDB: Multiple vulnerabilities normal

New packages more at the Gentoo packages database

URI-redis URI for Redis connection info
python-hpilo iLO automation from python or shell
libopenglrecorder Library for asynchronous OpenGL recording with audio
libopenglrecorder Library for asynchronous OpenGL recording with audio
Devel-CallChecker Custom OP checking attached to subroutines

Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki

Raspberry Pi/Minimal musl+busybox cross building started by Armtux
Ext4 encryption started by Okias
Eclass started by Charles17
Dell XPS 15 9560 started by Walter
Prefix/tested started by Heroxbd