Security updates and no more patches from grsecurity (without a fee)
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Security updates for Wednesday
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GrSecurity Kernel Patches Will No Longer Be Free To The Public
The GrSecurity initiative that hosts various out-of-tree patches to the mainline Linux kernel in order to enhance the security will no longer be available to non-paying users.
GrSecurity has been around for the better part of two decades and going back to the 2.4 kernel days. In 2015 the stable GrSecurity patches became available to only commercial customers while the testing patches had still been public. That's now changing with all GrSecurity users needing to be customers.
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Passing the Baton: FAQ
This change is effective today, April 26th 2017. Public test patches have been removed from the download area. 4.9 was specifically chosen as the last public release as being the latest upstream LTS kernel will help ease the community transition.
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grsecurity - Passing the Baton
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