It has been announced during my previous post that Mozilla Firefox 3 will be launched today, and so it did! Right now, there are thousands of downloads going on since the news have gone public. It was phenomenologically huge traffic such that the traffic to Firefox home page was rather sluggish.

Nonetheless, this is also an on-going campaign to hit the target of achieving the largest volume of downloads within a 24 hours timeframe. Hence, good luck, Mozilla. Meanwhile, if you do support Mozilla Firefox 3, download it today.

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About two days ago, WordPress has released the security fix for WordPress 2.5 version. This release contains several bug fixes and performance enhancement. It is highly recommended for users who are using the latest major release of 2.5 milestone to upgrade immediately, as the initial public release has a security vulnerability.

The entire 2.5.1 release has over 70 fixes and performance enhancement. Some of which are as follow:

• * Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• * Better performance for those who have many categories
• * Media Uploader fixes
• * An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• * Widget Administration fixes
• * Various usability improvements
• * Layout fixes for IE

Personally, I am happy to see the media uploader issue being fixed, as it has been quite an annoying issue for me for a period of time.

WordPress 2.3.2 was released 2 days ago, barely unknown to me just right under my nose. I have been expecting it for quite some time, as the previous version released, WordPress 2.3.1, was then released more than 2 months ago.

This WordPress version provides several bugs fixes, as usual, but more noticeably, it is highly recommended to upgrade to this version. One of the main fixes is that the previous version exposes a security flaw that allows draft posts to be seen by public. Several other bug fixes and enhancements can be found here.

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A complete new security solution aimed at securing database has been released by Symantec. Known as Symantec Database Security (SDS) 3.0, the software comes with new capabilities to curb the loss of sensitive information or intellectual property stored in databases.

Some of the new features include intruder identification, real-time transaction policy alerts and integration with Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM). SDS prevents fraud and leakage of sensitive data due to faulty practices and oversights, while addressing growing auditing, compliance, and regulatory requirements for secure data access.

This software supports a variety of database software, such as Microsoft SQL, Oracle and IBM DB2.

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WordPress 2.3.1 was released in less than 24 hours ago. According to Ryan, this version contains all the bug fix and security fix for the 2.3 series of WordPress.

Some of these fixes include:

• * Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
• * Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address
• * Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
• * Link importer fixes

If you are using 2.3 series, it is highly recommended that users upgrade to this version, as Janek Vind found that a XSS problem can be exploited if the php setup has register_globals enabled.

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This is exception for Opera web browser lovers; Opera 9.5 Beta is now available for download. It has been a long time since Opera released the alpha version, and this beta version is definitely more than welcome for all.

This release fixes several hundred of bugs, whilst improving website rendering at the same time. Furthermore, the stability and usability has also being tweaked for great scalability.

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Drupal 6.0 Beta 2 was release last week, after some rigorous testing and correction made to fix existing bugs and security issues. One of the most notable change is that the long time favourite Drupal.module has not being moved out of the Drupal package. Instead, it will be made available as the contributed Site network module. This approach has helped to improve security in Drupal 6, and support a wider solution for distributed authentication in the form of the OpenID standard.

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The next update to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 is now available for download. Following this release, there are a couple of security fixes. Among the release, also includes Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) support for Macintosh.

• - URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows
• - XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object
• - Possible file stealing through sftp protocol
• - XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
• - File input focus stealing vulnerability
• - Browser digest authentication request splitting
• - onUnload Tailgating
• - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)

It is highly advised that Mozilla Firefox users upgrade to the latest version of Firefox as soon as possible.

It has been a long time since I provide the latest news of any latest software release. This time, I hope to introduce Skype for Linux 1.4 Gold, codename Panacea.

The choice of this codename is in contention with a Greek mythology; Paacea, daughter of Asclepius, God of Medicine, and the granddaughter of Apollo, God of Healing, is a goddess of cures. And thus, the name is chosen for this version of Skype for Linux - in compairson of the improved voice call quality.

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Come tomorrow, September 17, 2007, OpenOffice.org will release the latest (stable) version of OpenOffice.org 2.3.0. However, good news to all of you, the applications has already been made available for the public. This new version can be downloaded from several mirror sites, including OSUOSL.

There are several new features being introduced in this version; such as performance improvements, new charting wizard and the ability to generate Wiki pages. These information are made available from the Release Note page.

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