Re: XZ-UTILS-5.6.2

On 2024-06-02, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 11:24 this Saturday (GMT):

Xz-utils-5.6.2 is released.  The backdoor is removed.
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5.6.2 is already in Gentoo.
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The poor distro lackeys, however, will have to wait until their sluggish
distros approve the release.
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Ahahahahahahahahahaha!

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For now, it's locked to 5.4..so at least they're doing something. Isn't
Xz somewhat underused nowadays anyways?

Linux Mint (both 20.x and 21.x) are still using Xz-Utils in the 5.2 range.
Which means Linux Mint never had to deal with the backdoor issue. There are
advantages to "trailing edge" (stable) Linux releases.

I don't even know if I ever actually use Xz-Utils. Probably somewhere in the
background? I'm sure not bragging about which version I'm using though. 

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