The H Roundup for the week ending 21 April

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

In the process of fixing a security hole in MySQL, Oracle accidentally released a proof of concept for the denial-of service vulnerability, the GIMP development team confirmed that version 2.10 of the open source image editor will use GEGL (the Generic Graphics Library) for all of its calculations, and Spanish firm TheCorpora announced that it is now accepting pre-orders for its Q.bo open source and open hardware robot. Google sent out email messages to the webmasters of more than 20,000 sites to let them know that their sites may have been hacked, and Canonical unveiled a beta version of its "AWSOME" open source proxy server for migrating from Amazon Web Services to the OpenStack cloud computing platform.

• Oracle accidentally release MySQL DoS proof of concept
• GIMP 2.10 will use 16-bit colour depth throughout
• Q.bo open source robot now available to pre-order
• Google warns the operators of thousands of hacked web sites
• Canonical's AWSOME move - Amazon tasks sent to OpenStack
• Zarafa releases version 1.0 of its next generation web interface
• Fedora 17 enters home straight with beta release
• Open source 3D drivers for new AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
• Trisquel moves to GNOME 3 fallback mode
• Cairo-Dock gets retooled for GTK+ 3

Featured Articles

This week, in The H Speed Guide to the Lua programming language, Dj Walker-Morgan looked at the compact embeddable language and, in the latest HealthCheck, Richard Hillesley took a look at Red Hat's Fedora Project, its history and its future.

• The H Speed Guide to Lua
• HealthCheck Fedora - Where's the beef?

Open Source Releases

• Latest stable version of Scala arrives
• Zarafa releases version 1.0 of its next generation web interface
• Canonical's AWSOME move - Amazon tasks sent to OpenStack
• Mozilla announces Open Badges Beta
• ZeroBin provides an encrypted alternative to Pastebin
• GNOME 2 fork MATE reaches version 1.2
• Cairo-Dock gets retooled for GTK+ 3
• Trisquel moves to GNOME 3 fallback mode
• PacketFence 3.3 introduces role-based access control
• Fedora 17 enters home straight with beta release
• Chrome for Android beta adds desktop view
• Sonar 3.0 helps keep source code clean
• Open source Transport Tycoon Deluxe clone updated to version 1.2
• FreeBSD 8.3 introduces new features
• First update for GNOME 3.4 arrives
• Third beta of Mageia 2 released
• ProjectForge 4 arrives with redesigned UI
• Lisp dialect Clojure udpated to version 1.4
• Ruby 1.9.3 update fixes RubyGems security problem

Security Alerts

• Critical vulnerability in IrfanView plugin
• Oracle patch day addresses 88 vulnerabilities
• New version of OpenSSL closes security holes in ASN1 parser

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