News & Features
The load testing desktop application gets a refresh, with the ability to sample local operating system processes, upgraded JMS and WebService testing, and better graphs and reports
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The first release candidate for version 3.4 of WordPress, the next major update to the open source blogging and publishing platform, has been released. Also, a new version of the WordPress for iOS app has been released with push notifications and a new swipe-to-moderate toolbar
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The Enyo project has responded to reports that the whole development team working on the framework has left HP for Google. According to a post on the Enyo blog, HP will replace the engineers who have left
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The licence change took only four weeks, thanks in part to a new tool by the Doctrine developers which emails all the committers to a Github project
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Using fake applications, fraudsters have used premium rate text services to pick Android users' pockets. The UK-based company which provides the phone numbers used will now have to reimburse all losses and will face a fine
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Version 1.2.2 of the open source rapid application development tool for creating Java applications includes support for Spring Framework 3.1.1 and version 7 of the Java Development Kit, and adds a new "tailor" feature
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Version 0.11 of FFmpeg, code-named "Happiness", adds support for several new audio and video formats. This includes Apple's ProRes, Blu-ray support and decoders for WMA Lossless and RealAudio Lossless
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In the last seven days: Linux 3.4 released, Chrome browser passed milestone, this year's Perl 5.16.0 arrived, and Linux Mint 13 "Maya" was published. Also, Glyn Moody looked at monopolies and open source, and The H spoke to Scala creator Martin Odersky
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The BYOD trend in corporations seems to have taken a casualty; Cisco's Android based Cius tablet is being put on ice as corporations want employees to use their own hardware to plug into the corporate network
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The widget-serving Wookie server, currently in the Apache Incubator, is updated with the old JSP admin pages removed and a switch to JSON support for all REST API calls
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Open Recall is a new space on The H for those things which are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories which didn't quite make the cut.
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Microsoft, Citrix, IBM and SAP announced that they have submitted the OData protocol to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards for standardisation
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The regional court in Munich, Germany has ruled that Motorola is infringing on an SMS messaging patent owned by Microsoft. This means that Microsoft could demand that Motorola stop selling infringing Android mobile devices in Germany
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Microsoft has announced that, in future, the free of charge version of Visual Studio will only be able to create Metro-style applications. This significantly increases the barrier to entry for open source and freeware developers on Windows
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At LinuxTag 2012, the Kanotix development team announced the release of an update to the Hellfire branch and a preview of the Dragonfire branch of its Debian-based live Linux system
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The latest version of the popular package management tool includes many improvements in its internal consistency and header validity checks. It also supports dpkg-style tilde notation and 7zip-compressed sources
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According to a report, members of the development team behind the cross-platform Enyo framework used by the webOS mobile operating system will be leaving HP to join Google
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The release of Fedora is on track for next week as the developers declare the release gold. Meanwhile a beta of Fedora 17 brings the community distribution one step closer to being an option for owners of ARM-based device
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Security researchers from North Carolina State University announced the launch of a new initiative – the Android Malware Genome Project – to find, collect and analyse Android malware and share it with researchers around the world
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The aim of the ODI is to help individuals and companies make use of the increasing amounts of open data being released by the government. The institute is headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt
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The company plans to fund teacher training and teaching aids "such as Raspberry Pi's or Arduino starter kits"
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A survey by the 451 Group reveals that many companies cite freedom from vendor lock-in as a big factor in switching to open source software. The group credits the emerging cloud computing market as an influencing factor
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The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers
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The openSUSE project has announced that this year's openSUSE Conference will take place in Prague and be co-located with the SUSE Labs Conference, Czech LinuxDays and the first ever Gentoo Miniconf. The Call for Papers for the event is now open
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Based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, version 13 of Linux Mint is now available to download as two different editions, providing a choice of Cinnamon 1.4 or MATE 1.2 as the default desktop environment
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The H Community Calendar - June 2012
