The H Roundup for the week ending 3 September

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

Canonical released the first beta of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, hackers worked around the security system in Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console and a new worm started spreading using Windows Remote Desktop. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals finally rejected SCO's appeal in the Unix copyright case and the GNOME developers announced that version 3.2 of their desktop will include Web Application support.

• First beta for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot released
• Hackers claim to have beaten Xbox 360 security
• Worm spreads via Windows Remote Desktop
• SCO vs Linux: it's over
• GNOME 3.2 will have a Web Application mode
• Fake Google certificate is the result of a hack
• Processor Whispers: About coring and distancing
• Fraudulent certificate triggers blocking from software companies
• First beta version of GNOME 3.2
• Security breach at kernel.org

Featured Articles

This week, Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at newly released X Server 1.11 and the new kernel maintenance strategy, J. Austin Hughey examined the new features in Ruby on Rails 3.1 and Richard Hillesley interviewed lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison. The H also published the Community Calendar for September and two new articles in the short series introducing the upcoming TransferSummit in Oxford.

• The H Community Calendar - September 2011
• TransferSummit: Innovation, commoditisation and value creation
• Kernel Log: X Server 1.11, new kernel maintenance strategy
• TransferSummit: Accessibility adoption expands in open innovation
• New features of Rails 3.1
• We won and we didn't notice – a conversation with Jeremy Allison of Samba

Open Source Releases

• Snort 2.9.1 improves protocol handling
• Mandriva 2011 arrives with Systemd
• Thunderbird 7 enters beta
• Citrix fully open sourcing Cloud.com tools
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 fixes DoS vulnerability
• Non-Admin Google Chrome Frame now stable
• Updated Chrome and Firefox for fraudulent Google certificate available
• LibreOffice 3.4.3 fixes bugs
• Rails 3.1 now available
• Scala 2.9.1 brings improved interpreter
• RabbitMQ 2.6.0 arrives
• First beta version of GNOME 3.2
• First beta for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot released
• openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 5 released
• TrueCrypt 7.1 brings full Mac OS X Lion support

Security Alerts

• Gopher problem in Squid

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