COBOL, C, C++ all due for updates in early 2020s

You have never heard of Chris Tandy, a Toronto-based programmer for IBM since 1985, but his work in standardizing computer programming languages is vital to everything you do as a software developer. Tandy chairs the American INCITS PL22 group and is an officer in the global ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 committee, which are the primary standards bodies responsible not only for pivotal languages such as COBOL, C, and C++, but also for historic ones like Ada, APL (famously named as "A Programming Language"), and Fortran. They also deal in esoterica—try your hand at coding in PL/1 or REXX. Future versions of the COBOL standard are now entirely in ISO hands, while before it was mostly an American project, Tandy explained. The ISO working group members intend to have the next version, known as an FDIS (final draft international standard), done in 2020. Also: GNU patch another_hunk Function Double-Free Vulnerability [CVE-2018-6952]

Kdenlive Video Editor 19.04 Arrives with Major Changes in Tow

A major update to the Kdenlive video editor is now available for download. Kdenlive 19.04 ships as part of KDE Applications 19.04, released on April 19. This is the vaunted “refactoring” release we’ve written lots about, as the release announcement explains further: “Kdenlive has gone through an extensive re-write of its core code as more than 60% of its internals has changed, improving its overall architecture.”

Security Leftovers

• Security updates for Friday

• Security updates for Thursday

• Oracle Patches 3-Year-Old Java Deserialization Flaw in April Update

• Wireless Sniffer Kismet 2019-04-R1 Adds New Web UI, Support For Non-WiFi Captures

  A new major Kismet version has been released, almost 3 years after the previous stable release. The new 2019-04-R1 version features a massively rewritten code base, a new web UI, support for non-WiFi capture types, and much more. Kismet is a wireless network detector, package sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with any wireless card that supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a/b/g/n traffic. With the latest Kismet version 2019-04-R1, the tool is no longer WiFi only, and it now includes support for Bluetooth, 433MHz sensors (like weather stations, TPMS tire pressure sensors, or wireless thermometers), ADSB aircraft data, AMR-based power meters, wireless keyboards and mice built with the nRF chipset, and more.

• Remove cloud-init from Ubuntu

10 Best Linux Password Managers

Password managers are applications created to enable users to keep their passwords in a single place and absolve themselves of the need to remember every single one of their passwords. They, in turn, encourage clients to use passwords that are as complex as possible and remember a single master password. Modern password managers even go an extra mile to keep other information such as card details, files, receipts, etc. safely locked away from prying eyes. You might be wondering which password manager app will work best on your Linux machine and I am here to answer your question with my list of the 10 best Linux password managers.