Wireshark 1.4.0 drops Windows 2000 support

September 2nd, 2010

The Wireshark project has released version 1.4.0 of its open source, cross-platform network protocol analyser, adding and updating a number of new features and dropping support for Windows 2000 systems
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Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released

September 2nd, 2010

Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages
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iTunes 10 addresses 13 security vulnerabilities

September 2nd, 2010

All of the holes are contained in WebKit and can be exploited to compromise systems
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PostgreSQL 9.0’s first release candidate arrives

September 1st, 2010

The PostgreSQL developers have issued a first release candidate for version 9.0 of their open source database, integrating replication using "Hot Standby" and "Streaming Replication"
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GitHub launches "Pull Requests 2.0"

September 1st, 2010

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub’s hosted service
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KDE SC 4.5.1 released with various bug fixes

September 1st, 2010

The KDE Project has released version 4.5.1 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the first point update to the latest major release of the popular Linux and Unix desktop
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Two month breathing space for Indian BlackBerry users

August 31st, 2010

The bone of contention is the Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES) communication service for businesses. The Indian government is demanding complete access to the service, RIM is maintaining that it cannot provide this on principle. RIM has now made proposals which are to be implemented and examined
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CEDET 1.0 adds IDE features to Emacs

August 31st, 2010

CEDET brings project management, code completion, reference analysis, code generation and more to the Emacs editor
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CyanogenMod 6.0 brings Android 2.2 to older devices

August 31st, 2010

The CyanogenMod project has published version 6.0 of its modified Android 2.2 based firmware, a free, community-built custom ROM that supports a number of older Android phones – many of which only officially support version 1.6 of Google’s mobile operating system
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Chromium gets GPU acceleration

August 30th, 2010

Google developers have announced that Chromium, the open source browser on which the company builds the Chrome browser, is getting a GPU graphics overhaul
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