The H Roundup for the week ending 14 January

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.

Top News

The CyanogenMod project reached a new milestone with more than 1 million installations of the modified Android firmware, the Linux kernel grew to more than 15 million lines of code, and Mozilla confirmed ESR, "Firefox for Enterprises", would begin with Firefox 10. Meanwhile, a new project makes creating Python applications for Android easier and the new release of the Firebug debugger for Firefox became dockable.

• CyanogenMod surpasses 1 million installations
• Linux kernel exceeds 15 million lines of code
• "Firefox for Enterprises" begins with Firefox 10
• Python for Android launched
• Firebug 1.9 illuminates Firefox from all sides
• Canonical unveils Ubuntu TV at CES
• Debian passes CentOS as most popular Linux for web servers
• Ubuntu variants to get 12.04 LTS releases
• Did Symantec source code hack reveal Indian phone surveillance?
• Standard JSON API for Java to be developed

Featured Articles

This week, Thorsten Leemhuis talked about quick kernel configuration and, in the current Kernel Log, discussed Linux 3.3 being the first kernel to exceed 15 million lines of source code and Linux 3.0 being promoted to long-term kernel status. Meanwhile, Richard Hillesley took a look at Linux Mint's growing popularity and success.

• Good and quick kernel configuration creation
• Kernel Log: 15,000,000 lines of code, 3.0 promoted to long-term kernel
• HealthCheck: Linux Mint

Open Source Releases

• Firebug 1.9 illuminates Firefox from all sides
• Calligra Suite for Windows released for testing
• Two updates for IPFire open source firewall released
• Python for Android launched
• SDK offers early look at Meego successor Tizen
• Spring Integration 2.1 now available
• New version of Free Pascal, 2.6.0
• Testing with Byteman 2.0
• Latest Snort provides alarm for industrial control systems
• PHP 5.3.9 released with hash DoS fix
• Liferay 6.1 portal software gets new setup wizard
• DAViCal calendar server finalised
• Wireshark 1.4.x and 1.6.x updates close security holes
• Limbas 2.3 database tool now available
• Release candidate available for Linux Mint 12 KDE
• Ceylon IDE gets first official release
• Google ports Box2D physics engine to Dart
• IBM updates EGL Web Developer Tools
• FreeBSD 9.0 released
• Mageia 2 Alpha 3 arrives for testing

Security Alerts

• PHP 5.3.9 released with hash DoS fix

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