The H Roundup for the week ending 24 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
PayPal fixed a security vulnerability in its web site that could have been exploited to steal information from customers, a beta version of Firefox 13 arrived with a redesigned home page and "new tab" behaviour, and Linus Torvalds released version 3.3 of the Linux kernel. The upcoming 9.0 release of the CyanogenMod custom Android ROM will ship without default root access and the first update to the 2.0 branch of the VLC Media Player closed security holes.
- Embarrassing security failure at PayPal
- Firefox to get new home page and tabs in three months
- Linux kernel version 3.3 released
- CyanogenMod 9 to ship without default root access
- VLC Media Player 2.0.1 closes security holes
- Alleged LulzSec Hacker Ackroyd released on bail
- Firefox 12 beta introduces automatic updates
- GCC 5.0 set for a modular future?
- Android fragmentation dampens developer interest
- First release candidate of CyanogenMod 7.2 backports ICS features
Featured Articles
This week, Thorsten Leemhuis detailed the changes in the new Linux 3.3 release and took a look at drivers for the latest Radeon GPUs, while Richard Hillesley discussed how GPL enforcers can use copyleft to defend free software.
Open Source Releases
- Firefox 12 beta introduces automatic updates
- Thoughtbot open sources Copycopter
- Tiny Core Linux 4.4 improves extensions searching
- VLC Media Player 2.0.1 closes security holes
- First release candidate of CyanogenMod 7.2 backports ICS features
- Online polls made easy with IPM
- Rackspace open sources Whiskey test framework
- Apache Camel to add WebSocket and Twitter
- PHP source code now available on GitHub
- RabbitMQ 2.8.0 brings "dead lettering" support
- Wine 1.5.0 begins new development cycle
- KDevelop 4.3 arrives with KDE Projects integration
- Second openSUSE 12.2 milestone arrives for testing
- Joomla! 2.5 update fixes security vulnerabilities
- SPDY protocol now available in Jetty
- CocosBuilder development tool open sourced
- Akamai open sources Mobitest benchmarking tool
- Firefox to get new home page and tabs in three months
- Chrome 17 update fixes high-risk vulnerabilities
- Sony releases source code for the Xperia S
- Banshee 2.4 adds DVD playback and UPnP streaming
- LibreOffice 3.4.6 fixes "potential security problem"
- GCC 4.7.0 released to mark the 25 years of GNU Compiler Collection
- First Mono release in a year delivers a new C# compiler backend
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