News & Features
The third release candidate for what will become version 3.0 of the Spring Framework has been released and includes "several enhancements"
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The OXtender for Thunderbird Add-on for the email client allows users to access calendar features on an Open-Xchange server
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The new version of RedHawk Embedded Linux, Concurrent's Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based real-time Linux, now supports Nehalem and Opteron systems with up to 48 cores
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US-CERT has stated that clientless SSL VPN products from various vendors circumvent browser same origin policies, allowing theft of cookies and access data
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Two versions, 1.3 and 1.4, of popular PHP framework Symfony have been released, differing only in that functions marked as deprecated in earlier versions have been removed from 1.4
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OpenLogic have announced that they are expanding their commercial support services for open source packages to include CentOS Linux
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FireFound, Multifox and Voyage won in Best New Add-ons category, while Smart Find, Book Burro and Speed Dial took Best Updated Add-on top spot
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A new Windows trojan blocks internet access until the user enters an activation code, obtained by sending an SMS containing a specific number to a premium rate phone number
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Following on from the beta released at the Qt Developer Days, the final version of the LGPL licensed cross platform Qt 4.6.0 user interface framework has been released
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A flaw in the run-time link editor can be exploited to start arbitrary programs at root privilege level. A patch has been made available, but has not been fully tested yet
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Google has added a heap profiler for JavaScript and a comprehensive timeline view to the developer tools built into Google Chrome
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m0n0wall 1.3 final has been released after three years in beta, adding IPv6 support and moving to a FreeBSD 6.4 base
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Next year, the GNOME community will gather in The Hague between July 24th and 30th for the annual GUADEC conference
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Too short for news, too good to lose; lost+found is a round up of useful security information. Today, Nmap, WordPress, Clouds and Employees
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The Typo3 Association has released version 4.3 of the open source content management system. The developers highlight the new Frontend Editing module and the Extbase extension, which allows users to produce projects compatible with the forthcoming version 5
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Sun Microsystems has released version 3.1.0 of its open source VirtualBox desktop virtualisation application for x86 hardware. The major update introduces teleportation, branched snapshots and 2D video acceleration for Windows guests
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The Internet Update Manager for assigning signatures and updating products has no functional protection for network management access. This potentially allows attackers to cripple the scanners on client PCs
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The new release of the web framework is compatible with earlier 2.3.x versions and fixes various bugs, including an XSS problem in strip_tags
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The Groovy development team have simultaneously released version 1.6.6 of Groovy, the latest stable release of the dynamic scripting language, and RC1 of Groovy 1.7
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Dell has posted a customised USB image of Google's Chromium OS, the open source branch of Chrome OS, on its web site for use with its Mini 10v netbook
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The 8th release of Linux Mint, a distribution based on Ubuntu 9.10, is now available and features a number of improvements and updates
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In the past week, The H posted the latest Linux news in three new Kernel Logs, took a look at Google's Chromium OS, and reported on FreeBSD 8.0, KOffice 2.1, Thunderbird 3 and vulnerabilities in Opera and Internet Explorer
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The OpenShot developers have released version 0.9.54 of their open source video editor for Linux. The latest update features improvements to snapping, zooming and the time-line
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Devtmpfs, aka 'devfs 2.0' to its detractors, should allow the Linux kernel to start faster and run without udev. Support has been added for ACPI 4.0 and there are two new make targets which generate kernel configurations attuned to the running system. Changes to the power management subsystem increase data throughput and allow better use of runtime power saving features on modern I/O devices
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XDEV has released its XDEV 2 Java Integrated Development Environment under the XDEV open source licence, which is CPL compatible
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Root exploit for FreeBSD
