The H Roundup for the week ending 16 June
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.
Featured Articles
This week, Fabian Scherschel took a look at some alternatives to the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu Linux which didn't involved installing a different Linux distribution, including GNOME 3, Cinnamon, KDE and Xfce.
Top News
A new authentication bypass flaw for MySQL was published online, Bitrig was created by forking the OpenBSD operating system, and Intel confirmed that its CPUs are affected by a virtualisation privilege escalation exploit. Developers at Linaro demonstrated their optimisations to the Android mobile operating system, and The Document Foundation published the first beta for version 3.6 of the LibreOffice productivity suite.
- Simple authentication bypass for MySQL root revealed
- OpenBSD forked to create Bitrig
- Intel CPUs affected by VM privilege escalation exploit
- Linaro boosts Android 4.0.4 performance
- LibreOffice 3.6.0 enters beta testing
- Fabien Sanglard reviews DOOM 3's source code
- Firefox 15 Aurora has native PDF support
- Microsoft removes barriers for open source on Windows 8
- Skype for Linux 4.0 released, moves out of beta
- Google's Blockly puts visual programming in the browser
Open Source Releases
- Sabayon 9 arrives with Linux 3.4 and new app browser
- GNU Emacs 24.1 introduces new packaging system
- MPlayer leaps to version 1.1
- Growl 1.4 overhauls Applications Tab
- Debian wheezy for Raspberry Pi goes into testing
- Griffon, the Grails desktop counterpart, hits version 1.0
- Lightspark plugs into BBC video streams
- KDE Telepathy 0.4 supports audio and video calls
- Gradle build automation tool hits 1.0
- Firefox 15 Aurora has native PDF support
- LibreOffice 3.6.0 enters beta testing
- Google's Blockly puts visual programming in the browser
- Gutenprint 5.2.8 improves support for Canon printers
- WordPress 3.4 "Green" has new theme customiser
- Analyse your web backend with BSOAD
- PacketFence 3.4 supports up to 100 custom VLANs
- Free software maps twins to answer nature vs nurture
- Project Serengeti: Hadoop in the VMware cloud
- PHP 5.4.4 and 5.3.14 releases fix security vulnerabilities
- Angular.js hits its 1.0 degree
Security Alerts
- Adobe Flash update closes several critical holes
- Simple authentication bypass for MySQL root revealed
- BIG-IP network appliances remote access vulnerability
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Symantec Web Gateway eliminated
- Critical holes closed in Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday
- Intel CPUs affected by VM privilege escalation exploit
- Ruby on Rails patches more SQL injection holes
- Oracle warns EBS users of auto-update to Java 7
- PHP 5.4.4 and 5.3.14 releases fix security vulnerabilities
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