WordPress 2.8.4 has just been released to the public. This version is to patch a vulnerability that was discovered yesterday – a specially crafted URL could be requested that allows an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user-requested password reset.

As a result, the first account without a key in the database (which is normally the admin), would have its password reset, with the new password emailed to the account owner. Although this does not allow any form of remote access, but it can be quite annoying.

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The latest release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 Beta is now available to the public for testing. It comprises some bug fixes over its earlier version:

• * Several security and stability issues.
• * Images with ICC profiles now render properly on all monitors.

Without a doubt, Firefox is still one of the fastest fixes produced by the community to ensure the browser is kept up-to-date. The full release note is available here.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

This is the last reminder for all those who receive invites from Microsoft to download Windows 7 Release Candidate. This offer will last until August 20, 2009, as the starting on October 22, 2009, you will see Microsoft Windows 7 officially sold on the shelves and PC stores.

Note that, users who download the RC edition from the site will require a key, which can be obtained by accessing the Download Link below and follow the instructions to obtain yours.

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When I was using Pidgin a couple of weeks back, I realised that it was almost impossible to log on to Yahoo! account. The first thing that came into my mind was, has my account been hacked? I checked, it seems okay. I did not bother to rectify this connectivity issue with Yahoo! as most of my contacts are from MSN. Only a few days back did I checked the update from Pidgin website that Yahoo! has changed its security protocol that disallowed previous versions of Pidgin to connect; therefore, Pidgin 2.5.8 has been released to rectify this issue.

Amongst the changes were fixes to ICQ crash, MSN crash for users with long buddy lists, Yahoo crash, as well as receiging messages from the web version of MySpace IM and signing on to MySpace IM if users have empty buddy list.

The strong recommendation from the Pidgin developers is: Upgrade to this 2.5.8 version if you have not done so.

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Pidgin 2.5.8

A few days ago, WordPress releases the next version of WordPress 2.8.1, in which this version fixes several bugs and strengthen the security for plugin administration pages. One of the flaws was discovered by Core Security Technologies, who informed WordPress that admin pages added by some plugins can be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in leakages of secured information.

There are also a couple of changes in this version:
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It has taken a long 5 years, and finally Google has decided to remove the beta tag from GMail. Over the years, Google has developed several Google Apps even when GMail is still in the beta stage.The fact that Google has taken a long time to pull this well-matured GMail from the beta tag has shown that Google is getting serious into businesses.

Large companies and enterprises are normally concern with beta tags; the official full release simply spell a whole new business plan for Google, leveraging on its large base of Google Apps developers.

It’s coming soon… Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate (RC) 1 has just been made available to the public for download and upgrading. This release is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which was under rigorous development for the past year. On top of that, there has been a couple of changes over the previous version. Check out some of the features below:

• * Available in more than 70 languages.
• * Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• * Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• * The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
• * Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• * Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• * Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

All the beta versions in various localised languages are available from the link below. Try them out today!

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I have just received notification to upgrade my Firefox browser to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 b99. The code “b99″ sounds a little interesting, as this is probably the first time I have seen Mozilla come up with this codename.

This version is a preview of Firefox 3.5, the upcoming version of the Firefox web browser. It has not yet gone through a full set of quality assurance tests, and should not be considered as a release candidate. Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate is expected to be issued shortly. At that time users will be automatically upgraded to that version.

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After several weeks of development, WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate (RC) 1 is now available for public to download. This will be the release version if no further bugs are found.

The official WordPress 2.8 release is expected to be out in the public on Wednesday. So, keep an eye on it.

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