heise online news 03/02/2009

heise online news 03/02/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Security Updates for Novell GroupWise The security update addresses a number of vulnerabilities, including a buffer overflow in GroupWise Internet Agent, which could be used to inject and execute code › Read article     SugarCRM's new features previewed New features of SugarCRM have been previewed at SugarCon in San Francisco › Read article     Debian GNU / Linux 5.0 set for Valentines release The Debian Release Team have announced that the expected final release of Debian GNU / Linux 5.0 will be "the weekend of February 14" › Read article     Open source crash reporting for the iPhone (and OSX) Plausible CrashReporter will let iPhone developers get crash reports of their applications much more easily › Read article     FOSDEM: Open source developers to meet in Brussels The 9th Free and Open Source Developer Meeting (FOSDEM), scheduled for the 7th and 8th of February, is expecting 5,000 open source developers at the University of Brussels › Read article     Release candidate of Rails 2.3.0 posted The "Ruby on Rails" Developers have posted a first release candidate for version 2.3.0 of the opinionated web framework › Read article     Midnight Commander wakes from deep sleep The Midnight Commander file manager project has come back to life with a bug fix release and UTF8 support in development › Read article     Second RC of Debian GNU / Linux 5.0 Installer The second release candidate (RC2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has been released by the Debian development team › Read article     UAC vulnerability found in Windows 7 Beta A simple script has been published by developer Rafael Rivera to disable User Account Control (UAC) through a vulnerability in the current Windows 7 beta › Read article     Snow for your Linux desktop Linux users may wish to theme their desktop with snow, given the current weather conditions; we show you how › Read article     Ruby 1.9 ready for prime-time with release of Ruby 1.9.1 Ruby 1.9.1 is dubbed ready for production use, but Ruby's ecosystem of code will need to catch up first › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Dj Walker-Morgan All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.