The H Roundup for the week ending 17 March

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 year's Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest saw Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox fall to zero day exploits, Arch Linux celebrated turning ten years old, and version 1.4 of the Cinnamon desktop was released by the Linux Mint development team. As part of its Patch Tuesday, Microsoft closed seven holes in its products, including a critical RDP vulnerability in Windows, and developers at Mozilla are again discussing adding H.264 support to Firefox.

• Pwn2Own ends with three browsers felled
• Arch Linux turns ten years old
• Cinnamon 1.4 improves workspace management
• Microsoft closes critical RDP hole in Windows
• Mozilla looks at supporting H.264 video again
• Btrfs ready for production in new Oracle Linux kernel
• Source code of Symantec Antivirus posted on the net
• Audacity 2.0 released bringing crash recovery and improved effects
• TIOBE language index shows the rise of JavaScript
• Reward offered for Windows RDP exploit

Featured Articles

This week, Glyn Moody took a look at how open source has been going from strength to strength and creating new opportunities, and Kernel Log author Thorsten Leemhuis discussed Oracle and SUSE's official support for the experimental Btrfs filesystem.

• A golden age of open source innovation?
• Kernel Comment: Btrfs too fast?

Open Source Releases

• Unity fixes in newly released Midori 0.4.4
• Debian Lenny reaches end of life with 5.0.10 update
• Mobile-optimised jQuery rewrite jqMobi hits version 1.0
• IronPython 2.7.2 can load libraries from zip archives
• Linux 3.3 delayed, other kernels arrive - Update
• Magnolia CMS 4.5 improves usability
• Mozilla stages release of Firefox 11
• Go language reaches release candidate stage
• Btrfs ready for production in new Oracle Linux kernel
• Gnuplot 4.6 arrives with code block support
• Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey updates fix critical vulnerabilities
• VirtualBox 4.1 maintenance update arrives
• Beta for NetBSD 6.0 available
• Audacity 2.0 released bringing crash recovery and improved effects
• FreeNAS 8.2.0 beta 2 enables plugins
• Pidgin IM client 2.10.2 closes DoS holes
• Cinnamon 1.4 improves workspace management
• LibreOffice 3.5.1 bug fix release available
• HP releases webOS 3.0.5 sources
• OpenNebula and Microsoft produce stable Hyper-V drivers
• Second Mageia 2 beta arrives
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 beta headed for the cloud
• New Stellarium release improves Ocular and Satellite plug-ins
  

Security Alerts

• Safari update closes security holes
• Critical vulnerabilities in XnView fixed
• Microsoft closes critical RDP hole in Windows
• Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey updates fix critical vulnerabilities
• Cisco closes holes in its Security Appliances
• Reward offered for Windows RDP exploit

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