The H Roundup for the week ending 23 July
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
This week was all about Linux with the arrival of version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, Microsoft's happy birthday to Linux video and progress on real-time support for the kernel. Also: Firefox planned going multi-process, VirtualBox 4.1 arrived, Microsoft say CodePlex and GitHub are what open source developers prefer, Google to support HTC in its fight with Apple, Process Explorer reached version 15, a new Skype XSS vulnerability and an arrest in the German police hacker case.
- Linux kernel 3.0 released
- Microsoft contributes a lot of changes to Linux kernel 3.0
- Linux receives 20th birthday video from Microsoft
- Real-time patches for the Linux kernel take a major step forward
- Mozilla lays out multi-process Firefox engineering goals
- VirtualBox 4.1 supports cloning of VMs
- Microsoft - open source developers prefer CodePlex and GitHub
- Google to support HTC in patent fight with Apple
- Sysinternals Process Explorer hits version number 15
- Vulnerability in Skype allows accounts to be hijacked
- One arrest and further threats in the German police hacker case
Feature articles
The H took an in-depth look at what's new in version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, as well as the latest 5.7 release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Dj Walker-Morgan examined why the Harmony project is off-key, while Thorsten Leemhuis' Kernel Log discussed the latest problems with UEFI and Linux.
- What's new in Linux 3.0
- The changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
- Harmony's curiously flat tune
- Kernel Log: Further problems with UEFI
Open Source Releases
- VLC Media Player 1.1.11 closes heap overflow holes
- VirtualBox updates stable and beta versions
- Version 3.2 of Android for tablets released
- Selenium 2.1 improves Grid
- VirtualBox 4.1 supports cloning of VMs
- Wireshark updates fix security vulnerabilities
- Joomla! 1.7 brings new update mechanism
- Thunderbird 6.0 arrives in Beta Channel
- Apache Commons Lang 3.0 makes a break with the past
- Linux kernel 3.0 released
- Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Security Alerts
- Oracle patch day closes 78 security holes
- Safari updates close security holes
- CA Gateway Security vulnerable
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![Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) [--] Infrastructure](/imgs/43/1/0/4/2/6/7/2/comingin310_4_kicker-4977194bfb0de0d7.png)
![Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) [--] Infrastructure](/imgs/43/1/0/4/2/3/2/3/comingin310_3_kicker-151cd7b9e9660f05.png)
