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19 March 2009

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The H news 19/03/2009


The H news 19/03/2009
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The H Security news
WordPerfect files cause buffer overflow

A library for processing and displaying Word Perfect files puts the users of Lotus Notes and Symantec Mail Security in danger through a buffer overflow

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Security update for PostgreSQL

The update removes a vulnerability to denial of service caused by a recursion error when converting data

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The H Open Source news
VirtualBox 2.2 beta released

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the first beta of VirtualBox 2.2 which adds several new features to the open source desktop virtualisation system

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Songbird iPod add-on deletes music

The popular iPod add-on for the open source media player Songbird has problems which may cause it to delete content

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SpringSource Tool Suite 2.0 released

SpringSource, the driving force behind the Spring Java applications framework, has released version 2.0 of it's SpringSource Tool Suite

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Perl 6 development: Parrot 1.0 has arrived

Parrot 1.0, the virtual machine for the upcoming version 6 of the Perl scripting language, is intended to be a stable platform for Perl 6 development that will also support other dynamic languages, such as Python and Ruby

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Google releases Chrome 2.0 Beta

Google has released a beta for Chrome 2.0 which it claims is even faster than its previous version

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Mozilla releases Fennec Beta 1

The first beta of Mozilla's Fennec mobile web browser has been released for Nokia's N810 Internet Tablets running OS2008

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Kernel Log - What's new in 2.6.29: Part 8 - Faster start-up and other behind the scenes changes

Thanks to asynchronous hardware initialisation, Linux should, in future, boot faster. The kernel development team have also made a whole range of changes to the infrastructure to make Linux run faster, more reliably and on more systems than before

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Red Hat patent defence rebutted

Red Hat's defence of their XML routing patent application does not impress the person who brought up the issue

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0354 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) evolution-data-server - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0354

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0354.html

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

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution28-evolution-data-server-1.8.0-37.el4_7.2.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution28-evolution-data-server-devel-1.8.0-37.el4_7.2.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution28-evolution-data-server-1.8.0-37.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution28-evolution-data-server-devel-1.8.0-37.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0355 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) evolution and evolution-data-server - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0355

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0355.html

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

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) evolution - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0358

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0358.html

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

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.s390x.rpm


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