The H Roundup for the week ending 19 November
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
As part of American Censorship Day, Mozilla, the non-profit organisation behind the open source Firefox web browser, symbolically censored its own logo, version 12.1 of the openSUSE Linux distribution was released and an update to Memcached improved the distributed memory object caching system's performance. Version 3.0 of Apache's Geronimo application server was fully certified for Java EE 6 and, after a five year break, the International Obfuscated C Code Contest returned for its 20th competition.
- Mozilla censors itself as part of American Censorship Day
- openSUSE 12.1 arrives with systemd and Btrfs
- Memcached 1.4.10 improves performance
- Apache Geronimo fully certified for Java EE 6
- Obfuscated C contest returns after five year break
- Unknown network event causing BIND 9 DNS server crashes
- Adobe moves Flex SDK to independent open source project
- Adobe revises Flex's future ... at the Apache Software Foundation
- Pinta Paint.NET clone update brings new features
- Linux Mint 12 release candidate now available
- Android 4.0 face recognition flawed
Featured Articles
This week, Richard Hillesley took a look at the history behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution and its Unity gamble, Thorsten Leemhuis detailed the networking changes in the upcoming Linux 3.2 kernel, and The H published its review of the new openSUSE 12.1 release.
- HealthCheck Ubuntu - The search for unity
- Kernel Log: Coming in 3.2 (Part 1) - Networking
- What's new in openSUSE 12.1
Open Source Releases
- Univention Corporate Server 3 release candidate available
- Linux Mint 12 release candidate now available
- Version 5.0 of Open64 compiler improves performance
- Apache Geronimo fully certified for Java EE 6
- ColorHug open source colour management announced
- PHP 5.4 approaches with first release candidate
- Pinta Paint.NET clone update brings new features
- Google releases Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code
- Memcached 1.4.10 improves performance
- Joomla! updates close security holes
- Airtime radio software update brings 'easy install' package
- Balsam Professional 12.1 available to purchase online
- openSUSE 12.1 arrives with systemd and Btrfs
- Khronos Group releases OpenCL 1.2
- Revolution Analytics releases version 5.0
- Google's Eclipse Plugin open sourced
- Cappuccino 0.9.5 brings new features
- Ruby runtime MagLev 1.0 released
- New admin GUI for Zarafa
- Rails updates close XSS hole
- jQuery Mobile 1.0 finalised
Security Alerts
- Unknown network event causing BIND 9 DNS server crashes
- Chrome 15 update fixes high-risk vulnerability
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