The H Roundup for the week ending 6 August
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
LibreOffice 3.4.2 arrives and is declared "enterprise ready", Linus loses patience with GNOME 3's shell, Verbatim's crypto NAS was suspected of having a backdoor, Amarok got a UI update and Skype moved on to use VP8 for video calls. In other news, Android trojans listened in, Linux 3.0 appeared in rescue CDs, proprietary code-blocking in Swiss open source incident, a query language for NoSQL and a hackable hole in an eCommerce platform.
- LibreOffice 3.4.2 is "enterprise ready"
- Torvalds: GNOME over as Linux creator switches to Xfce
- Backdoor suspected in Verbatim's crypto NAS
- Amarok 2.4.3 brings updated UI
- Skype moves to VP8 for all video calls
- Android trojan records phone calls
- SystemRescueCD & Parted Magic update to Linux 3.0
- Swiss proprietary companies block government open source release
- CouchDB and SQLite creators introduce UnQL, a NoSQL query language
- Millions of osCommerce stores hacked
Featured articles
Series two of CSI:Internet, the forensic tales of the digital city, began this week with the tale of back tracing a flood of SYNs.
Open Source Releases
- SystemRescueCD & Parted Magic update to Linux 3.0
- Netatalk returns to open source
- Firebug 1.8.0 brings Firefox 5.0 support
- Joda-Time 2.0 gets up to Date
- Amarok 2.4.3 brings updated UI
- Mesa3D 7.11: improved open source 3D drivers for current graphics chips
- RHEL clone Oracle Linux 5.7 released
- Version 1.0 of PhoneGap HTML5 app platform launches
- Metasploit attack framework reaches version 4
- NetBeans 7.0.1 gets in full sync with Java 7
- NexentaStor 3.1.0 arrives
- HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension goes 1.0
- Chrome 13 brings Instant Pages, closes holes
- Knoppix 6.7.0 Live Linux distribution released
Development Releases
- Couchbase Server 2.0 developer preview released
- Redis 2.4 dropping virtual memory
- First beta for Camino 2.1 Mac web browser arrives
- FreeBSD 9.0 and PC-BSD 9.0 enter beta
- Ruby 1.9.3 previews licence change and speed-ups
- SpringSource delivers first Grails 2.0.0 milestone
- Third Ubuntu 11.10 alpha arrives
Security Alerts
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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)
