First up in the news
Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released, Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm, Pine Tab2 announced, More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

In security and privacy
Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered

Then in our Wanderings, Moss is in Atlanta this week but has sent in his predictions, Joe does HPR, Bill sets up servers

In our Innards section
We go over last years predictions and our new predictions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The NewsLinux Mint 21.1 Vera released
Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm

More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

Security and Privacy

• Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered

Wrap-up Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee * Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, other information found at It’s Moss dot com * Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org * Norbert* – norbert@mintcast.org

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

• AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs
• Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about