The H news 19/03/2009

The H news 19/03/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours 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 › Read article     Security update for PostgreSQL The update removes a vulnerability to denial of service caused by a recursion error when converting data › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › 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 The H news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter The H Open Source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from The H, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter The H 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.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/security 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) 2009 Heise Media UK Ltd.