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06 March 2009

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Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 RC freely available

Both standalone packages and ISO images of the Service Pack 2 Release Code are available, as well as a script which allows the pre-release version to be downloaded using Windows Update

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Firefox 3.0.7 fixes vulnerabilities

Firefox 3.0.7 has been released fixing five security vulnerabilities, three of them critical

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Spotify data exposed

Spotify, the online music company, believes that user data may have been exposed to "a group" and has issued a security advisory

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The H Open Source news
GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate available

The GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92) is now available and includes stabilisation work, updated translations and bug fixes

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Mozilla confirm next Firefox will be version 3.5

The next major Firefox release will be version 3.5, not 3.1, reflecting the wide range of features added to what was to be an incremental update

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Gnash 0.85 release

The GPL3 licensed Flash player sees its fourth beta release as version 0.8.5 improves performance and enables the saving of streamed media

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Firefox 3.0.7 fixes vulnerabilities

Firefox 3.0.7 has been released fixing five security vulnerabilities, three of them critical

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KDE 4.2 update released

The KDE developers have released version 4.2.1 of the KDE desktop environment

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Apache votes no on Java EE 6

The Apache Software Foundation has voted no on the public review of Java EE 6. This is the latest twist in a long running dispute over Sun's Java SE licence restrictions

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0313

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.6-2.c4.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.c4.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.6-2.c4.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.c4.s390x.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0333 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libpng - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0333

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng-1.2.7-3.c4.2.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.7-3.c4.2.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.16-3.c4.3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.16-3.c4.3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng-1.2.7-3.c4.2.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.7-3.c4.2.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.16-3.c4.3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.16-3.c4.3.s390x.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 wireshark - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0313

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.6-EL3.3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-EL3.3.ia64.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 libpng - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0340

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0340.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-29.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-20.ia64.rpm


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Re: TurnKey Linux's biggest release ever

Nick Ali wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Liraz Siri <liraz@turnkeylinux.org> wrote:
>> Liraz Siri wrote:
>> BTW guys, what do you think would be the best way to cover the latest
>> TurnKey release in the next issue of UWN?
>
> Feel free to add it to the upcoming issue.
>
> nick
>
>
>
Lizra, I agree with nick, add it to the upcoming issue.
Looks like great work.

John

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0325

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 wireshark - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0313

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.6-2.c4.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.c4.ia64.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0333 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libpng - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0333

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng-1.2.7-3.c4.2.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.7-3.c4.2.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.16-3.c4.3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.16-3.c4.3.ia64.rpm


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