Following a short delay, Mozilla has issued the second beta for version 4.0 of its Firefox web browser, adding support for the new ‘tabs on top’ layout to Mac OS X systems and several new features that affect web developers
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Sony and ILM have released an alpha version of Alembic, an open source graphics interchange format designed to increase animation interoperability
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The openSUSE Project has announced that version 11.0 of its popular Linux distribution has reached its end-of-life, meaning that no new updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be available
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With a release candidate now available, the final version of Rails 3′s merge of Rails and Merb Ruby web frameworks is getting closer
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The KDE Project has issued the third and final release candidate for version 4.5 of the KDE Software Compilation, a development preview of the next major release of the popular Linux and Unix desktop which is expected to arrive next week
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Bryan Cantrill, one of the three developers behind Sun’s DTrace technology, has left Oracle, joining the ranks of other Sun alumni who have moved on since Oracle’s acquisition
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"Hole 196" is based on a vulnerability documented in the IEEE 802.11 standard and, for instance, allows attackers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in wireless networks
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Originally scheduled for the 9th of July, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has now issued version 8.1 of its popular free Unix derivative, improving functionality and introducing several new features
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The past week saw – cooperation on two cloud projects, A/V extensions to HTML5 and Symbian Foundation membership for individuals. A new Blu-ray library, DrupalCON Europe registration opened and GENIVI choose MeeGo. An exchange of views on vulnerability disclosure and Microsoft caught on a flaw in the short cuts code. Adobe security hardening Reader, browser auto-completion shown to be a security hole and a new intrusion detection engine from Suricata
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With version 5.2.14 as the final point release, the developers have discontinued their regular support of PHP 5.2. Users are advised to switch to 5.3. Version 5.3.3 was also released earlier today
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