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.

Upcoming weekend, 19-20th August 2017, there will be a Gentoo booth again at the FrOSCon “Free and Open Source Conference” 12, in St. Augustin near Bonn! Visitors can see Gentoo live in action, get Gentoo swag, and prepare, configure, and compile their own Gentoo buttons. See you there!

As FOSDEM 2017 approaches we are happy to announce there are a total of five Gentoo developers scheduled to give talks!

Developers and their talks include:

• Vladimir Smirnov (civil ) – Graphite@Scale or How to store millions metrics per second
• Andrew Savchenko (bircoph ) – Quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography
• Rafael Martins (rafaelmartins ) – Improving your virtualization development workflow with Lago
• Hanno Böck (hanno ) – Is the Linux Desktop less secure than Windows 10?
• Jason A. Donenfeld (zx2c4 ) – WireGuard: Next Generation Secure Kernel Network Tunnel

Only a few hours remain until the event kicks off. See you at FOSDEM!