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Adobe Reader available

August 25th, 2010

We have just received the license from Adobe to distribute the Adobe Reader. As Adobe switched development from Solaris Sparc to Solaris x86 there are different versions available for each platform:

  • Adobe Reader 8 for Solaris Sparc
  • Adobe Reader 9 for Solaris x86

Have fun with CSWadobereader !

GNOME refresh under way: want to help?

June 27th, 2010

At long last, we are starting to refresh our GNOME libraries, and eventually, top level GNOME programs as well.
We hope to publish a modern “gedit” very soon. (in a few days)

We could very much use additional volunteers, either as packagers, or just volunteering to test packages before official release. Please let us know, either by contacting your favourite maintainer, or posting on the users list, or using the maintainer signup page.

Security release – Firefox 3.0.14 is available

September 13th, 2009

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed by the latest security release of Firefox 3.0 ( 3.0.14 ).  The list of fixed vulnerabilities is available from here Mozilla’s security advisories page

Fixed issues in Firefox 3.0.14 are :

MFSA 2009-51 Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
MFSA 2009-50 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
MFSA 2009-48 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal
MFSA 2009-47 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)

Security release – Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 is available

September 9th, 2009

Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 has been released to current. This version resolve the following critical issues :

MFSA 2009-43 Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing
MFSA 2009-42 Compromise of SSL-protected communication

OpenOffice 3.1 is released

August 18th, 2009

We are pleased to announce a major version update for OpenOffice Suite. Current catalog now provides version 3.1

A new mirror is available

March 24th, 2009

A new mirror is available since beginning of March ’09. It is located in France. Marseille area, and is hosted by a French university.

The mirror URL is http://opencsw.solaris-fr.org (rsync and ftp are not available yet).

Many thanks to Gerard Henry!