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Was reading this news that Raspberry Pi's Linux distribution updated, but with one unexpected omission.
And
In a nutshell, this release includes:
a number of changes to the "first-run/startup wizard", which is not surprising since that was just introduced in the previous release
a couple of interesting changes which look to me like they are responses to potential security problems (password changes now work properly if the new password contains shell characters? Hmmm. I wonder if this came up simply because some users were having trouble changing passwords, or because some clever users found they could use this to attack the system? Oh, and who ever thought it was a good idea to display the WiFi password by default?)
updates to the Linux kernel (4.14.71) and Pi firmware
various other minor updates, bug fixes, new versions and such
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Raspbian Linux distribution updated
