The H Roundup for the week ending 26 November
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
Canonical confirmed that it would be discontinuing use of CouchDB as part of its Ubuntu One service. The news broke that a hacker had allegedly remotely intruded into the industrial control systems of a hydroelectric power plant in Illinois; however, confusion was later caused as ICS-CERT said that the pump wasn't destroyed by an intrusion after all. A new open source JavaScript library that claims to offer most of jQuery's functions, at a fraction of the size, was released, a new Linux logging system could replace syslog and a new incremental garbage collector in Chrome will help to speed up the response times of JavaScript applications in the web browser.
- Canonical dropping CouchDB from Ubuntu One
- Hacker destroys pump in US water utility
- Alleged water utility hack causes confusion
- jQuip: "90% of jQuery, 13% of the size"
- Journal: end of the line for syslog?
- Faster JavaScript apps with Google Chrome
- PyPy 1.7 widens the performance "sweet spot"
- id Software releases Doom 3 source code
- Process monitor htop reaches version 1.0
- Processor Whispers: About records and layoffs
- New user interface for Firefox on Android
Featured Articles
This week, Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at the newest patches for the real-time Linux kernel as well as changes in Linux 3.2, and Richard Hillesley talked with Dave Neary about his work with open source communities and companies.
Open Source Releases
- OpenPGP in browsers
- Tiny Core 4.1 gets RAID and LVM boot support
- MySQL 5.5.18 fixes replication issues
- jQuip: "90% of jQuery, 13% of the size"
- PyPy 1.7 widens the performance "sweet spot"
- Firefox 8 update fixes crashing bugs
- Process monitor htop reaches version 1.0
- New user interface for Firefox on Android
- PS3 Media Server 1.50.0 announced with bandwidth limiter
- Faster JavaScript apps with Google Chrome
- SeaMonkey 2.5 improves add-on control
- Wine 1.3.33 improves support for HTTP proxies
- FFmpeg updates fix security bugs
- id Software releases Doom 3 source code
- GNOME developers create Boxes for virtualisation
- Annotum picks up Google's abandoned Knol
- Apache ZooKeeper goes native for Windows C client
- MyPaint reaches 1.0.0 with improved user interface
- First KDE 4.8 beta released for testing
- Parted Magic update brings multi-boot CD changes
Security Alerts
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