The H Roundup for the week ending 31 March

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 GNOME developers released version 3.4 of their Linux and Unix desktop environment, the GNU C Library Steering Committee announced that it would be disbanding, and Munich Lord Mayor Christian Ude discussed the LiMux project and the money its saved the city. Notepad++ 6 arrived with a new document map feature, and the Linux Mint developers published Update Pack 4 for the Debian Edition of their Linux distribution.

• GNOME 3.4 released
• The GNU C Library Steering Committee disbands
• LiMux: Cheaper and more robust than Windows
• Notepad++ 6 adds regular expressions and a file map
• Linux Mint Debian Edition gets fresh updates
• Critical Java hole being exploited on a large scale
• Firefox 3.6.x approaches end of life
• Mozilla launches an MMORPG for web browsers
• "Please do not take down the Sality botnet"
• Report: iOS vulnerability sold for $250,000

Featured Articles

This week, Andrew Back detailed how open source open source has been used to build a GSM network, and Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at GNOME 3.4 and discussed Red Hat reaching the billion dollar milestone. The H also published the Community Calendar for April.

• Building a GSM network with open source
• First Look: GNOME 3.4
• Red Hat's billion dollar milestone
• The H Community Calendar - April 2012

Open Source Releases

• Open media centre XBMC 11 "Eden" released
• Django 1.4 arrives with time zone support
• Linux Mint Debian Edition gets fresh updates
• Parted Magic update fixes bugs, upgrades packages
• Apache Traffic Server update closes important security hole
• Notepad++ 6 adds regular expressions and a file map
• ZeroMQ forked to create Crossroads I/O
• Upstart 1.5 released
• Adobe announces Open Source Media Framework 2.0
• GridGain 4 adds native clients and new monitoring functions
• GTK+ 3.4 with multi-touch capabilities and Windows support
• New Shotwell release brings photo straightening tool
• GNOME 3.4 released
• Chrome 18 improves graphics performance, closes security holes
• Google's Go 1.0 is good to go
• Google announces Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich
• Second beta release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
• Wireshark updates fix DoS vulnerabilities
• Apache POI 3.8 released
  

Security Alerts

• Critical Java hole being exploited on a large scale
• Chrome 18 improves graphics performance, closes security holes

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