The H Roundup for the week ending 30 July
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
Top of the news agenda for readers was the arrival of version 4.7 of the KDE software collection. Oracle's deletion of a former Sun-CEO's blog, the launch of a MeeGo laptop in India, Mozilla's operating system plans and a security hole in netbook batteries were also popular news items.
- KDE SC 4.7 released
- Oracle deletes ex-Sun-CEO's blog
- Indian release for Samsung MeeGo netbook
- Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' to be a web operating system
- Security hole in notebook batteries
- SUSE and Microsoft renew the Novell deal
- Oracle previews MySQL 5.6 features
- Oracle has to do its homework in trial against Google
- Fast key-value store LevelDB released by Google
- Austrian ISP's wireless routers set up secret network
Featured articles
This week, The H took a look at the problem of fake open source and free software, Glyn Moody asked if Boot2Gecko is Mozilla's next Firefox moment, and we rounded up all the August events (and more) in the latest Community Calendar.
Open Source Releases
- CentOS 6 LiveCD
- Scientific Linux 6.1 and CentOS "MinimalCD" released
- Oracle releases Java 7 platform
- MacPorts 2.0.0 brings support for Lion
- Wine 1.3.25 brings rewritten audio support
- Apache Camel updates with Amazon cloud service support
- Cups 1.5 with new security functions
- Lightspark update brings support for newer Flash files
- Opsview Community 3.13 adds support for Opsview Mobile
- Clonezilla Live updates underlying OS
- Dell crowbars open its OpenStack solution
- Faster subqueries in MariaDB
- digiKam 2.0.0 arrives with face recognition
- State-of-the-art PHP development: Symfony 2.0 released
- Oracle previews MySQL 5.6 features
Security Updates
Security Alerts
- iOS updates fix certificate validation vulnerability
- Skype update enables account theft
- Unpatched hole in FlexNet License Server Manager
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