Sentences with phrase «also backport»

Google has also backported Linux 4.8's «hardened usercopy» feature to protect usercopy functions, which the kernel uses to transfer data between user space to kernel space memory.

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I'm also told Microsoft may backport some UWP APIs that are introduced in Redstone 3 and Redstone 4 on PC over the next year.

Google is also requiring new devices launched with Android Oreo to be configured to support Project Treble right from the start, which will hopefully make it easier to upgrade Linux kernel versions in the future, and reduce the efforts that will need to be put into backporting security patches.