The H Roundup for the week ending 15 October

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

Following several delays, the CyanogenMod project released version 7.1 of its custom Android firmware, the world learned that Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system, had passed away, and the time zone reference database used by all versions of Unix and Linux was taken offline due to a copyright claim. The German Chaos Computer Club made headlines when it announced that it had cracked a government trojan known as the "Federal Trojan" (Bundestrojaner); however, a number of virus scanners still fail to deal with the treat.

• CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released
• Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and more, has died
• Copyright claim against time zone database
• CCC cracks government trojan
• Anti-virus software fails to deal with government trojan
• KDE releases Plasma Active One
• GNU PDF no longer an FSF high priority project
• Google begins to detail Dart
• iTunes 10.5 fixes security holes on Windows
• RSA: "We were hacked by a nation state"

Featured Articles

In the lead up to Linux 3.1, Thorsten Leemhuis detailed some of the recent developments taking place with the upcoming kernel, and Glyn Moody took a look at the biggest WebKit contributor that most people didn't even know about: Adobe. With Canonical's latest Ubuntu 11.10 release, The H detailed some of the major changes in the latest version of the popular Linux distribution.

• Kernel Log: Linux 3.1 approaches
• Adobe: the biggest WebKit contributor you didn't know about
• What's new in Ubuntu 11.10

Open Source Releases

• CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released
• KDE releases Plasma Active One
• Transmission BitTorrent client update adds torrent queuing
• VLC Media Player 1.1.12 closes security hole
• Third Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" update arrives
• ownCloud web-based storage app hits version 2.0
• Subversion 1.7 arrives with improved metadata storage
• Sabayon Linux 7 arrives with experimental Fusion kernel
• openQA emerges from openSUSE
• Canonical releases Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot"
• First alpha of Android port for HP TouchPad released

Security Alerts

• Microsoft closes holes in Internet Explorer and Silverlight
• Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.1
• Apple's iOS 5 update closes almost 100 security holes
• Update closes critical Safari hole on Mac OS X

For everything The H has published in the last week, check out the last seven days of news. To keep up with The H, subscribe to the RSS feed, or follow honlinenews on Twitter. You can follow The H's own tweeting on Twitter as honline.

(crve)