The H Roundup for the week ending 7 January
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
Linus Torvalds released the version 3.2 of the Linux kernel, open source Clementine music player reached version 1.0 and the Linux Mint developers updated Cinnamon, their replacement shell for GNOME 3 based on a fork of the GNOME shell. Netcraft published its January survey which showed that the open source nginx web server gained significant market share and overtook Microsoft's IIS, and the development team at Mozilla released version 11.0 of Firefox for Android, which now uses a native Android UI, into the browser's Aurora development channel. Meanwhile, Anonymous exposed neo-Nazis in Germany and chat logs revealed who was behind a major botnet, FreeDOS 1.1 was released after five years in development and a Spanish authority abandoned producing its own custom Linux distribution.
- Linux 3.2 released
- Version 1.0 of the Clementine music player arrives
- Mint's Cinnamon hits 1.1.3
- Web servers: nginx overtakes IIS
- Firefox Aurora for Android gets native UI
- Extremadura abandons its custom Linux distribution
- FreeDOS 1.1 released
- Processor Whispers: About slowing and scrambling
- Anonymous launches web portal against neo-Nazis
- Chat logs reveal the operator of a major botnet
Featured Articles
This week, with the release of Linux 3.2, Thorsten Leemhuis took an in-depth look at the changes and improvements in the new release of the Linux kernel. Meanwhile Glyn Moody asked what steps free software should take in 2012 especially in terms of preserving freedom for all.
Open Source Releases
- Apache Hadoop reaches its 1.0 milestone
- Scribus 1.4.0 publishing software released
- Mint's Cinnamon hits 1.1.3
- openSUSE 12.1 Edu Li-f-e for teachers and students
- Version 1.0 of the Clementine music player arrives
- Gentoo releases new live DVD
- Aptosid 2011-03 comes with Linux 3.1 kernel
- Trelby screenplay editor relaunched
- PacketFence 3.1.0 adds new features and hardware support
- Gambas 3.0 for BASIC with bug and security fixes
- Mozilla completes MPL 2.0
- WordPress 3.3.1 closes XSS hole
- FreeDOS 1.1 released
- Firefox Aurora for Android gets native UI
- Apache Struts update closes critical holes
- digiKam maintenance update released
- Linux 3.2 released
- XBMC 11 enters beta, final desktop version of Boxee 1.5 arrives
- KDE 4.8 approaches with final release candidate
- NetBeans 7.1 released
- FreeNAS 8.0.3 update arrives
- LibreCAD 1.0 released
- Six security flaws fixed in OpenSSL
- Chrome 17 enters beta, improves speed and security
- GNU ed updated
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