Games and Wine (Staging) Leftovers

• ‘Slight Delay’ Hits Life Is Strange: Before the Storm macOS, Linux Port

  The launch of Life Is Strange: Before the Storm on macOS and Linux has been delayed, Feral Interactive today revealed. Taking to Twitter, the publisher responded to a user’s question asking why the Before the Storm port had not been released in its spring 2018 window.

• The rather tense action & stealth game 'Basingstoke' now has a Horde mode

  Puppy Games have updated Basingstoke with some new features and a new game mode, it's also on sale for the Steam Summer Sale.

• Prison Architect update 14 is out giving inmates the ability to climb over walls with rope

• Acrobatic colourful platformer 'Rifter' will release July 12th with Linux support

  Fusing together fast-past acrobatic platforming with a thumping synthwave soundtrack, Rifter certainly looks good! It's officially releasing July 12th with Linux support. “After three years in development I can’t quite believe that soon I’ll finally get to share Rifter with the world. The core game was finished a while ago, but as a gamer I really appreciate a high level of polish so for the last couple of months I’ve worked to give Rifter that extra shine and added extras like a ghost mode, online leaderboards, tons of little extra visual effects and some really cool hidden secrets that I hope players will enjoy.”, said Maximilian Csuk, (aka IMakeGames) the solo developer behind the game.

• Wine-Staging 3.11 Released, Should Help Some Program Installers

  Built off Friday's release of Wine 3.11 is now the updated Wine-Staging release. Wine-Staging 3.11 is carrying about 900 patches still on top of the upstream Wine code-base. There wasn't too a lot of new work merged for Wine-Staging over the past two weeks since v3.10, but it's mostly been re-basing of existing patches to work with the upstream Wine tip.

Free Software: Kiwi TCMS 4.2, PeerTube in the News

• Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 4.2

  We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS and tcms-api version 4.2! This is a security, bug-fix and enhancement update which upgrades to the latest Django version under Python 3.6. We've pushed new kiwitcms/kiwi:latest docker image to Docker Hub and updated the demo instance at https://demo.kiwitcms.org! This version also includes GDPR related changes which affect our project. Read below for the details.

• PeerTube: An Open Source YouTube Alternative To Beat Censorship

  When it’s about watching videos online, YouTube is the first thing that comes to our minds. But the popular video sharing platform is often subjected to censorship in many countries. There are many countries including China and North Korea that ban YouTube from time to time. Leave the others, recently, even YouTube ended up blocking many legitimate Channels as a collateral damage of its copyright crackdown. Ultimately, the content creators are the ones who get affected due to all of this blocking.

• PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative

  YouTube is a great video platform that has a lot to offer to both consumers and creators. At least, those who play by the rules. For creators, there is a major drawback though, one that put a spotlight on the alternative 'free-libre' software PeerTube this week.

OpenBSD chief de Raadt says no easy fix for new Intel CPU bug

Recompiling is unlikely to be a catch-all solution for a recently unveiled Intel CPU vulnerability known as TLBleed, the details of which were leaked on Friday, the head of the OpenBSD project Theo de Raadt says. The details of TLBleed, which gets its name from the fact that the flaw targets the translation lookaside buffer, a CPU cache, were leaked to the British tech site, The Register; the side-channel vulnerability can be theoretically exploited to extract encryption keys and private information from programs.

Kernel Space: Linux and Systemd

• Linus Torvalds tells kernel devs to fix their regressive fixing

  Linus Torvalds has given the Linux kernel development community a bit of a touch-up, after finding some contributions to Linux 4.18 complicated the kernel development process. In his post announcing release candidate 2 of Linux kernel 4.18, Torvalds mentioned “some noticeable filesystem updates, particularly to cifs.” “I'm going to point those out, because some of them probably shouldn't have been in rc2. They were ‘fixes’ not in the ‘regressions’ sense, but in the ‘missing features’ sense.”

• Why data centers need log management tools

  Even though systemd is a common logging method, rsyslog offers more features. One main capability is being able to write log messages to a specific database. You can also configure rsyslog logs on one main server for centralized access.

• Systemd v239 released

  Systemd v239 has been released with a long list of changes; click below for the full set. "A new system.conf setting NoNewPrivileges= is now available which may be used to turn off acquisition of new privileges system-wide (i.e. set Linux' PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS for PID 1 itself, and thus also for all its children). Note that turning this option on means setuid binaries and file system capabilities lose their special powers. While turning on this option is a big step towards a more secure system, doing so is likely to break numerous pre-existing UNIX tools, in particular su and sudo."