The H Roundup for the week ending 17 December
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 Mozilla developers are having problems with the size of their open source Firefox web browser, an update to the PuTTY SSH client for Windows closed a security hole that caused it to retain passwords in memory, and a Google-funded study found that Chrome is the most secure browser. Following a report from Lookout Mobile Security, Google pulled more than twenty applications from its Android Market, and European IT authorities announced plans to work together to improve interoperability with OOXML in LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org.
- Firefox is bursting at the seams
- Security problem in PuTTY SSH client fixed
- Study: Chrome the most secure browser
- Google removes 22 malicious apps from the Android Market
- European IT authorities want better OOXML in Libre/OpenOffice
- FFmpeg 0.9 "Harmony" released
- Linux on Playstation 3 class action finally dismissed
- GIMP 2.7.4 arrives for testing
- Backdoors in industrial control systems
- Microsoft opens Messenger up to XMPP
Featured Articles
This week, The H discussed the news that HP will open source its webOS software and the possibility that it could become a backup option, a Plan B, to Google's Android operating system. Thorsten Leemhuis detailed some of the infrastructure changes in the upcoming Linux 3.2 kernel and Glyn Moody asked what Mozilla's future holds and what it should do to help the open web.
- Comment: Is webOS the new Plan B for mobile?
- Kernel Log: Coming in 3.2 (Part 4) - Infrastructure
- What should Mozilla do?
Open Source Releases
- Java language variant Xtend 2.2 now less dependent on Eclipse
- FFmpeg 0.9 "Harmony" released
- CentOS 6.1 released
- Security problem in PuTTY SSH client fixed
- qooxdoo 1.6 JavaScript framework gains offline features
- Univention Corporate Server 3 released
- WordPress 3.3 "Sonny" adds new media uploader
- Modular embedded development with mbeddr C previewed
- Eclipse Orion 0.4 M1 brings extensive syntax highlighting
- Chrome 16 brings support for syncing multiple accounts
- GParted update improves volume labelling
- Facebook use HipHop virtual machine for faster PHP
- Spring Framework 3.1 released
- GIMP 2.7.4 arrives for testing
- Plasma Active 2 KDE tablet interface released
- SystemRescueCd and GParted Live updated
- Blender 2.61 adds motion tracking support
- Nuxeo gets social and mobile in Nuxeo Platform 5.5
- Pidgin IM client 2.10.1 fixes crashing vulnerabilities
- First Nightingale media player release arrives
Security Alerts
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