The H Roundup for the week ending 1 October

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, UK-based VPN and web proxy service provider Hide My Ass! acknowledged that it had helped to track down an alleged member of the LulzSec hacker group who was arrested by the FBI. Following the recently disclosed SSL/TLS vulnerability, the Firefox development team said that it is considering disabling Oracle's Java plug-in to protect users, and security specialists made suggestions about how to protect against it. The developers at Kernel.org provided an update on the site's status, and version 3.2 of the GTK+ GUI library was released with support for Wayland and HTML5.

• VPN provider helped track down alleged LulzSec member
• Kernel.org updates its status
• Mozilla considers disabling Java in Firefox
• First solutions for SSL/TLS vulnerability
• GTK+ 3.2 with support for Wayland and HTML5
• Microsoft releases fix-it tools for SSL/TLS vulnerability
• Tiny Core Linux 4.0 released
• Tizen: the latest mobile Linux announced
• Firefox 7 released, uses less RAM
• Report: Nokia working on Linux OS for low-end phones

Featured Articles

Glyn Moody examined the Apache ecosystem and how Microsoft has failed to learn from it, and Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at some of the changes in version 3.2 of the GNOME desktop environment. The H published the Community Calendar for October.

• The H Community Calendar - October 2011
• Learning from The Apache Way
• First Look: GNOME 3.2

Open Source Releases

• Puppet Enterprise 2.0 arrives with new GUI
• Eclipse 3.7.1 supports Java 7
• Editing improves in WordPress for iOS 2.9
• PostgreSQL developers fix weakened passwords
• GTK+ 3.2 with support for Wayland and HTML5
• Tiny Core Linux 4.0 released
• Advance updates for CentOS 6.1
• Clojure 1.3 more Maven friendly
• Jaspersoft BI Suite 4.2 includes support for mobile devices
• Terracotta adds automatic resource control to Ehcache
• Firefox 7 released, uses less RAM
• Thunderbird 7 arrives
• Clonezilla Live clone system updated
• Twitter open sources Storm
• GNOME 3.2: Improved cloud connectivity
• Apache Felix 4.0 is OSGi 4.3 compliant
• PiTiVi video editor adds new transform feature
• Firefox 8 Beta arrives with Twitter search

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