The H Roundup for the week ending 10 December
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 Fedora Project accepted a range of new features proposed by developers for version 17 of their Linux distribution, Microsoft's App Developer Agreement for the upcoming Windows Store has an exception for open source, and hacker Liam "Hexxeh" McLoughlin released new builds of his customised Chromium OS-based operating system known as Lime. Early in the week CNET's Download.com was accused of wrapping open source applications in a proprietary installer; later in the week, the company apologised "for the unrest it caused".
- Btrfs and new file system structure agreed for Fedora 17
- Windows Store agreement has open source exception
- Lime: Chromium OS with extra hardware support
- Download.com accused of wrapping Nmap in a "trojan installer"
- Download.com "apologises" for bundling
- Version 1.0 of QEMU published
- Google researchers propose way out of the SSL dilemma
- SPDY protocol support lands in Firefox, but is turned off for now
- Google and Mozilla deal still ongoing
- Carrier IQ points at manufacturers for insecure logs
Featured Articles
This week, Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at some of the architecture changes in the upcoming Linux 3.2 kernel and The H detailed what's new in version 6.2 of Red Hat's enterprise distribution.
Open Source Releases
- Percona announces PAM plugin for MySQL
- GNU Stow gets first update since 2002
- Lightspark open source Flash player ported to Windows
- Nagios fork Icinga 1.6 records SLA information
- Lime: Chromium OS with extra hardware support
- digiKam 2.4.0 improves histogram view
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- Tapestry 5.3 for memory-efficient, high performance web applications
- PostgreSQL updates fix bugs
- MapR announces version 1.2 of its distribution for Hadoop
- Data visualisation with Cube
- JetBrains turns IntelliJ IDEA up to 11
- KDE SC 4.7.4 and 4.8 Beta 2 released
- DNSCrypt: a tool to encrypt all DNS traffic
- PortableApps.com Platform reaches version 10
- Ten years of Rockbox
- Version 2.2 of the Moodle e-learning platform released
Security Alerts
- New Adobe Reader zero-day in the wild
- Allegedly critical zero-day vulnerability in current Flash Player
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