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On April 6, Debian published a security update fixing a cross-site scripting vulnerability found in the Python HTML sanitizing library bleach. python-bleach is an allowlist-based Python library that sanitizes HTML text by escaping or stripping tags and attributes.
Red Hat has long been a donor and contributor to projects led by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), with hundreds of contributors and millions of lines of code donated. Given the circumstances of Richard Stallman's original resignation in 2019, Red Hat was alarmed to learn he has rejoined the FSF board.
On March 18, 2021, GitLab — the world's second-largest open source software company — announced that JiHu Information Technology (Hubei) Co., Ltd. has officially registered in Wuhan, China.
The Google Chrome team sent an email to Linux distribution developers: starting March 15, 2021, Chromium derivatives will no longer be able to use Google APIs such as Google Sync. For the sake of user account security, Google is cutting off third-party access to its APIs.
At the end of 2020 CentOS announced it would end support at the end of 2021, which sent shockwaves everywhere. Developers and users alike rejected it — even CentOS's founder started the Rocky Linux project that same month to build the next CentOS. Red Hat immediately adjusted course, publishing a post on its official blog on January 20, 2021.
On January 5, 2021 GitHub's official blog published "Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran". Iranian developers had previously been blocked because of US sanctions.
I connected my Spring Boot main site with a Discuz! forum so login and logout are synchronized, and member data from Discuz! can be shown back on my site. I also modified the previously open-sourced discuz-ucenter-api-for-java to fit the way Spring Boot is written today.
CentOS 8 support ends in 2021. CentOS 7, as the long-term support release, will continue to be supported until its own lifecycle ends, and CentOS Stream becomes the focus. At the end of 2021 CentOS 8 stops being maintained, while CentOS 7 stays supported until 2024.
Contact GitHub — in English — and ask whether the username can be released, then wait for a reply. If you're lucky the username gets released immediately and you need to rename fast, because if someone else registers it first, all your effort was for nothing. Here's my conversation log.
After upgrading to a newer Druid, the logs kept throwing errors: discard long time none received connection., jdbcUrl: blah blah. The program ran fine, but staring at a wall of errors is unbearable, so I went into their source to see what was actually going on.
