Critical PHP security update coming
The PHP security team has let it be known that there is a high-stakes security update coming at 14:00 UTC on October 21. " All PHP users are encouraged to prepare now so they can upgrade as soon as the release is available ". Anybody running a PHP site probably needs to be prepared for this one.
We haven't written up this one. LWN has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.