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LLVM hits 3.4: The LLVM project’s compilers and more toolchain has reached version 3.4 and the announcement counts down the new features; Clang now has all of the working draft for C++1y standard working, a better static analyser, a “clang-format” for beautiful code in your preferred style and an experimental driver which should let Clang be used with Visual Studio. There’s also lots of performance enhancements in the code generator. Read more in the release notes and if you’re the kind of person who builds their own LLVM kit, head to the releases page to download.
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Arch’s first 2014 update: The first of what will be many, the Arch Linux project has released an update (2014-01-05) to the distro. If you already use Arch, you know that as long as you are up to date you don’t need this. For folks wanting to check out Arch, this update is where you’d start. Well, there and the installation guide or beginner’s guide.
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Mirantis OpenStack update: Mirantis have released Mirantis OpenStack 4.0 which you can download. It includes a number of “hardened” packages and the Fuel management tool which can deploy out to CentOS or Ubuntu.
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Paper powered encryption: The folks at LightBlueTouchPaper have come up with an interesting little paper based, one-time pad driven encryption scheme with a Python script for generating encryption tables. Read more and generate a table or two at the blog posting.
