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.

uTorrent users are advised to take note; if you are currently running on version 1.7.x, your application might be experience some crashing moments. The latest release of uTorrent fixed a remote crash bug and 3 other minor issues.

Change Log

• - Change: do not use adapter subnet to identify local peers
• - Fix: double-clicking to open items in RSS releases tab
• - Fix: remote crash bug (affects all 1.7.x, and 1.8 builds released to date)
• - Fix: limit local peers if disk is congested

Note that, the crash bug affects versions 1.7.x and 1.8 releases to date. Hence, upgrade is strongly recommended as no further update is available for those releases dated prior to version 1.7.6.

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uTorrent 1.7.6

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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Picasa 2 was initially developed by Google three years ago and released as a free software. In spite of this, Picasa is still one of the most popular and useful photo album around to manage photos and pictures located in the PC’s hard disk drive.

Picasa is not just a image library, it also include editing tools for enhancing photo images. For example, Fill Light is a tuning tool that brightens or darkens picture that contains dark backgrounds (e.g. someone with his back to the sun).

Picasa is definitely recommended software of the week. You should have it as long as you have digital photos and purchasing professional softwares, such as Adobe Photoshop, become expensive.

Picasa can be downloaded here.

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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WordPress 2.3.1

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.

Adobe Acrobat, one of the most-used software, is said to be vulnerable to attacks, as according to Adobe Systems Inc. last Wednesday. It was mentioned that versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat software could allow malicious programs to gain access to the PC without the user’s knowledge. With such potential capability, it is possible that some hackers can take control of the machine and used it to steal confidential data.

The vulnerability is known to affect computers running on Microsoft Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7 web browser. The fix might not be available until the end of October 2007. During this period of time, it is best that user monitor their computer closely.

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