6:57 a.m.
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 260
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC
* 1.1.1.1.1 Howto or run:
* 1.1.1.1.2 Reason for outage:
* 1.1.1.1.3 Affected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.4 Unaffected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.5 Contact Information:
* 1.1.1.1.6 Ticket:
# 1.1.1.2 Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011
# 1.1.1.3 Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is
gtk3 only
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 Open source status report reveals good health and profits
(NetworkWorld)
+ 1.2.2 Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is
minimal (InternetNews.com)
+ 1.2.3 Einbruch in Fedoras Infrastruktur
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages
+ 1.3.3 Test case management system proposal and requirements
+ 1.3.4 Multi-spin DVD review
+ 1.3.5 Smolt graphics card generation extraction
+ 1.3.6 Package-specific and critical path test case process
+ 1.3.7 AutoQA
o 1.4 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 260 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 260[1] for the week ending January 26, 2011. What
follows are some highlights from this issue.
In announcements, details on the official release of Fedora 14 64-bit for IBM System z,
and upcoming details on gtk2 support ending for Evolution related packages in Rawhide, the
development version of Fedora. We have three articles in Fedora In the News, and Quality
Assurance previews the first Fedora 15 upcoming Test Day, updates on the AutoQA process,
and more. Our issue this week wraps up with security-related packages released this past
week for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy!
An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of
FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join'
page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue260
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general
announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past
announcements at[1]
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
---- OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC ----
Stephen John Smoogen[1] on Thu Jan 20 21:36:58 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 3 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3]
----- Howto or run: -----
date -d '2011-01-25 02:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage: -----
We are moving from older netapp to newer one due to hardware limitations and aging
hardware. Due to change in disk architectures and such, we will be having a total outage
of Fedora services.
----- Affected Services: -----
* BFO - [4]
* Bodhi - [5]
* Buildsystem - [6]
* CVS / Source Control
* Docs - [7]
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - [8]
* Fedora Community -[9]
* Fedora Hosted - [10]
* Fedora People - [11]
* Fedora Talk - [12]
* Main Website - [13]
* Mirror List - [14]
* Mirror Manager - [15]
* Package Database - [16]
* Smolt - [17]
* Spins - [18]
* Start - [19]
* Torrent - [20]
* Translation Services -[21]
* Wiki - [22]
----- Unaffected Services: -----
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
----- Contact Information: -----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status
of this outage.
----- Ticket: -----
[23]"
1. Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002910.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTC
4. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
6. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
7. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
10. https://fedorahosted.org/
11. http://fedorapeople.org/
12. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
13. http://fedoraproject.org/
14. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
17. http://smolts.org/
18. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
19. http://start.fedoraproject.org/
20. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
21. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
22. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2571
---- Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011 ----
Fedora Project Leader, Jared K. Smith[1] on Tue Jan 25 00:14:23 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Summary: Fedora infrastructure intrusion but no impact on product integrity
On January 22, 2011 a Fedora contributor received an email from the Fedora Accounts System
indicating that his account details had been changed. He contacted the Fedora
Infrastructure Team indicating that he had received the email, but had not made changes to
his FAS account. The Infrastructure Team immediately began investigating, and confirmed
that the account had indeed been compromised.
At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account credentials
were compromised externally, and that the Fedora Infrastructure was not subject to any
code vulnerability or exploit.
The account in question was not a member of any sysadmin or Release Engineering groups.
The following is a complete list of privileges on the account:
* SSH to fedorapeople.org (user permissions are very limited on this machine).
* Push access to packages in the Fedora SCM.
* Ability to perform builds and make updates to Fedora packages.
The Infrastructure Team took the following actions after being notified of the issue: 1.
Lock down access to the compromised account 2. Take filesystem snapshots of all systems
the account had access to (pkgs.fedoraproject.org, fedorapeople.org) 3. Audit SSH, FAS,
Git, and Koji logs from the time of compromise to the present Here, we found that the
attacker did:
* Change the account's SSH key in FAS
* Login to fedorapeople.org
The attacker did not:
* Push any changes to the Fedora SCM or access pkgs.fedoraproject.org in any way
* Generate a koji cert or perform any builds
* Push any package updates
Based on the results of our investigation so far, we do not believe that any Fedora
packages or other Fedora contributor accounts were affected by this compromise.
While the user in question had the ability to commit to Fedora SCM, the Infrastructure
Team does not believe that the compromised account was used to do this, or cause any
builds or updates in the Fedora build system. The Infrastructure Team believes that Fedora
users are in no way threatened by this security breach and we have found no evidence that
the compromise extended beyond this single account.
As always, Fedora packagers are recommended to regularly review commits to their packages
and report any suspicious activity that they notice.
Fedora contributors are strongly encouraged to choose a strong FAS password. Contributors
should *NOT* use their FAS password on any other websites or user accounts. If you receive
an email from FAS notifying you of changes to your account that you did not make, please
contact the Fedora Infrastructure team immediately via admin at fedoraproject.org.
We are still performing a more in-depth investigation and security audit and we will post
again if there are any material changes to our understanding"
1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html
---- Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release ----
Phil Knirsch[1] on Tue Jan 25 17:59:31 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"It's been a long time since we last had an official release of IBM System z on
Fedora...
A really long time...
A really, really long time...
In fact and to be precise, it's been 134,265,600 seconds or 2,237,760 minutes or
37,296 hours or 1554 days since Fedora 6 was released on October 24th 2006 which was the
last release where IBM System z was included.
But today, today changes all this.
As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly presents the Fedora
14 for IBM System z 64bit official release!
And without further ado, here the links to the actual release:
[3] [4]
and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content.
The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as 1 DVD ISO and 5 CD
ISOs with the complete release.
Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)
We have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples and a nice README
here:
[5]
but beware that currently the images found there are still outdated, we're working on
fixing that over the next weeks.
Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state for future
release, where and how the team can be reached and just anything else IBM System z on
Fedora related can be found here:
[6]
Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!"
1. Phil Knirsch pknirsch at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002912.html
3. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Fedor...
4.
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Every...
5. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x
--- Fedora Development News ---
The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora
development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
* Tools changes that affect developers.
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is gtk3 only ----
Milan Crha[1] on Wed Jan 26 16:16:26 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Evolution team drops support for gtk2 in 2.91.6 release of evolution-related
packages (gtkhtml3, evolution-data-server and evolution) which might make trouble for
dependent packages which are still gtk2. I expect there will follow gtk3 updates for them
in the near future too, if not done already (this is mainly for packages using
libedataserverui and gtkhtml3, the rest should be fine).
There are done soname bumps and api version bumps in above mentioned packages as well. The
release will be done on Monday, when I plan to update rawhide too (+/- few days, if
something will go wrong)."
Later Peter Robinson[3] on Wed Jan 26 18:15:33 UTC 2011 reply over the thread[4].
1. Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/0007...
3. Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/0007...
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the
fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events
to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the
Fedora Marketing list[1].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Open source status report reveals good health and profits (NetworkWorld) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting reporting on some statistics on the vitality of the
Fedora Project:
"The Fedora Linux project sees over 2 million unique visitors to its site in a given
month; over 150,000 downloads; and over 25,000 active contributors of code, documentation,
translations and bug submissions per month."
The full article is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013677.html
2.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/open-source-status-report-reve...
--- Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is minimal
(InternetNews.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] news on a recent Fedoraproject.org credential compromise:
"Long story short is that a Fedora contributor had his/her credentials stolen and
then an attacker began to use those credentials to attempt to tamper with the Fedora
infrastructure. Due to the limited privileges of the exploited account (and some good
luck) it appears as though there has been no risk to Fedora's build or
infrastructure."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013678.html
2. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/01/fedora-linux-suffers-a-secur...
--- Einbruch in Fedoras Infrastruktur ---
Henrik Heigl forwarded[1] a press release in German about the security breach:
"Das Linux-Projekt Fedora hat einen Einbruch in seine Infrastruktur bestätigt[2], es
habe jedoch keine Manipulationen an Software-Projekten gegeben. Der oder die unbekannten
Täter haben laut einer Stellungnahme von Jared K. Smith offenbar über gestohlene
Zugangsdaten den Weg in das Fedora-Projekt gefunden. Auf den Einbruch sei man aufmerksam
geworden, weil ein Mitarbeiter vom Fedora-Accounts-System eine Nachricht bekam, es seien
Kontodaten geändert worden."
The full article is available[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013679.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html
3.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Einbruch-in-Fedoras-Infrastruktur-...
-- Quality Assurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the
work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
This week sees the first Fedora 15 Test Day on 2011-01-27[1], on network device naming
changes upcoming in Fedora 15. On compatible systems, Fedora 15 will use biosdevname[2] to
name the network interfaces; this provides a fully deterministic naming scheme on such
systems, as opposed to the current system, where you cannot be sure that a given
interface's name in Fedora will reflect its physical location or label. The Test Day
will ensure this system is working correctly and also that it does not override existing
preferred names on upgrades, so if you want to make sure this change has no unexpected
consequences for you, make sure to come along to the Test Day! The testing involved will
be easy and possible from a live image, and the Test Day page has instructions to find out
if your hardware is involved in this change.
Next Thursday, 2011-02-03, will see the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3
desktop[3], which is landing in Fedora 15. Mark it on your calendar!
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_W...
2. http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha
--- Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages ---
Luke Macken applied the patch from François Cami[1] to improve the comments Bodhi leaves
on bugs when the status of an update changes.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/701
--- Test case management system proposal and requirements ---
During the QA weekly meeting of 2011-01-24[1], Rui He reported that she had completed the
review of use cases[2] and features[3] in comparing the current Wiki-based system for
managing test cases and the potential replacement, Nitrate[4]. The next step is to
identify must-have and nice-to-have features to see if any are missing from Nitrate, and
write scripts to convert Wiki test cases into Nitrate test cases.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110124
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tcms_use_cases
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tcms_use_cases
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nitrate
--- Multi-spin DVD review ---
On a request from David Nalley, some group members reviewed the proposed multi-spin
DVD[1]. Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested testing boot and installation of each live
environment on the DVD. Christoph Wickert, the main proposer of the spin, agreed that this
would be a good idea, but did not expect to hit any problems.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/164
--- Smolt graphics card generation extraction ---
Adam Williamson suggested a project for anyone looking for one - extracting information on
graphics card generations from Smolt[1]. He explained that this would be useful for
assessing the overall level of support for GNOME Shell in Fedora 15.
1.
http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/17/potential-project-for-someone-gra...
--- Package-specific and critical path test case process ---
James Laska provided a script[1] implementing searching for package-specific test cases
meeting the categorization guidelines recently put into practice.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/154#comment:39
--- AutoQA ---
The new koji watcher implementation submitted for review last week by Josef Skladanka, and
the dependency checking test submitted by Will Woods, were both reviewed this week[1] [2]
[3] [4]. The AutoQA team also identified an issue in Bodhi's use of -pending tags,
which Luke Macken rapidly fixed.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001521.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001526.html
3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001503.html
4. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001522.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past
week.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* hplip-3.10.9-14.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* myproxy-5.3-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-mu-2.9.2-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* libuser-0.56.18-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sssd-1.5.0-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-data-1.2-5.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-1.2-26.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-5.3.5-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* dpkg-1.15.5.6-6.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.9.4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* myproxy-5.3-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* hplip-3.10.9-14.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* libuser-0.56.16-1.fc13.2 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-data-1.2-5.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-1.2-26.fc13.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-5.3.5-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-mu-2.9.2-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sudo-1.7.4p5-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sssd-1.3.0-40.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* dpkg-1.15.5.6-6.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-48.1.8.4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053
- end FWN 260 -
---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA