Trending Topics This Week
Here is what people are talking about this week in the world of free and open source software:
- Malware Can Exploit New Flaw in Intel CPUs to Launch Side-Channel Attacks.
- APAC Leads in Open Source Adoption.
- GitHub Sponsors Expands to Help Open Source Developers Make More Money.
Key Security, Maintenance, and Features Releases
Non-Security Updates
Hibernate ORM 5.4.29
[HHH-9182] - QuerySyntaxException with countDistinct
[HHH-11076] - Lazy collections ignore filters when allowLoadOutsideTransaction is true
[HHH-11903] - @OneToOne Derived ID is null when returned by query when bidirectional
[HHH-14351] - Broken order by type
Jenkins 2.282
Update Eclipse Jetty from 9.4.35.v20201120 to 9.4.38.v20210224 for bug fixes and enhancements. (pull 5317, Jetty 9.4.38 changelog, Jetty 9.4.37 changelog, Jetty 9.4.36 changelog)
SSHD module is no longer bundled in Jenkins core. Provide SSHD as a plugin. (issue 55582, issue 64107, pull 5049, SSHD module repository)
Do not force plugin upgrades of recently detached plugins. (pull 5311)
Upgrade from Remoting 4.6 to Remoting 4.7 with bugfixes and dependency updates. (pull 5292, Remoting 4.7 changelog)
JQuery 3.6.0
Fix tests for not auto-executing scripts without dataType (7298e04f)
Skip the jQuery.parseXML error reporting test in Legacy Edge (bf06dd47)
Fix the jQuery.parseXML error reporting test (1ec36332)
Recognize callbacks with dots in the Node.js mock server (4c572a7f)
PHP 8.0.3 and 7.4.16
8.0.3
Fixed bug #80634 (write_property handler of internal classes is skipped on preloaded JITted code).
Fixed bug #80682 (opcache doesn't honour pcre.jit option).
Fixed bug #80742 (Opcache JIT makes some boolean logic unexpectedly be true).
Fixed bug #80745 (JIT produces Assert failure and UNKNOWN:0 var_dumps in code involving bitshifts).
7.4.16
Fixed #80706 (mail(): Headers after Bcc headers may be ignored).
Fixed bug #75850 (Unclear error message wrt. __halt_compiler() w/o semicolon) (cmb)
Fixed bug #70091 (Phar does not mark UTF-8 filenames in ZIP archives).
Fixed bug #53467 (Phar cannot compress large archives).
Four Steps to Adopt Open-Source Software as Part of the DevOps Toolchain
Adopting open source software for DevOps without a well-documented open source implementation and support strategy can make achieving the full potential of open source software difficult. So how can organizations successfully adopt open source software? In the Gartner Report, Four Steps to Adopt Open-Source Software as Part of the DevOps Toolchain, they provide four recommended steps to adopt open-source software for use in DevOps.