The H Roundup for the week ending 28 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
Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox web browser that can now update itself without human assistance on Windows, developer Ben Hutchins took over the long-term maintenance of the 3.2 Linux kernel and IBM announced new Linux servers with POWER7 CPUs. Just days before the arrival of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin", which was released on Thursday, Mark Shuttleworth announced the name of version 12.10 of the popular Linux distribution, and Google announced that it would be dropping for Picasa for Linux.
- Firefox 12 released - can now update itself
- Long-term maintenance for Linux 3.2
- IBM announces Linux servers with POWER7 CPUs
- Ubuntu 12.10 named as "Quantal Quetzal"
- Google drops "Linux Picasa"
- "Super duper program update release" of Parted Magic
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS released - Precise Pangolin published
- Online forums hacked and misused on a large scale
- Valve is working on Steam and "Left 4 Dead 2" for Linux
- W3C to develop HTML5 and its successor in parallel
Featured Articles
This week, Glyn Moody discussed the potential risk factors for a hypothetical Open Source Incorporated corporation, and Fabian Schershel took a look at what's new in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The H also looked ahead to what's on in May in the Community Calendar.
- The Serious Business of Open Source, Inc.
- What's new in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- The H Community Calendar - May 2012
Open Source Releases
- WordPress fixes file upload security problems
- Version 1.2 of the Pinta Paint.NET clone released
- Smalltalk inspired Pharo project releases version 1.4
- "Super duper program update release" of Parted Magic
- Enterprise improvements in Neo4j graph database update
- Meteor framework changes licence
- NGINX 1.2.0 stable update improves proxy support
- Miso project begins open source releases
- Apache Cassandra 1.1 release comes to pass
- Firefox 12 released - can now update itself
- Scientific Linux 5.8 released
- TYPO3 4.7 brings improved HTML5 support
- Beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- Firefox 3.6.x reaches end of life
- Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 arrives with MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4
- Themes are the theme for Newscoop 4
- Thunderbird and SeaMonkey updates arrive, close security holes
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS released - Precise Pangolin published
- Pentaho 4.5 adds new views to its analytics
- PHP 5.4.1 and PHP 5.3.11 released
- First Mac OS X Java release from Oracle
- Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.0 supports Precise Pangolin
Security Alerts
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