It’s almost the time of the year again when we OpenCSW maintainers gather for our half-yearly technical camp (this time to be held in Paris). A welcome occasion to discuss and coordinate current issues and also to meet up with fellow maintainers in person. Not to speak of the opportunity to visit a foreign capital city, as that’s where one of our maintainers usually hosts the event. But I am getting ahead of myself, time to catch up on the happenings of the last camp, which took place in Lenggries near Munich, Germany earlier this year. » Read more: Technical Wintercamp 2009: Munich
Technical Wintercamp 2009: Munich
June 21st, 2010Security release – Firefox 3.0.14 is available
September 13th, 2009Several 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)
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, 2009Thunderbird 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
Technical Summercamp 2009: Oslo
August 23rd, 2009The technical summercamp 2009 took place in Oslo on the 22. and 23. August 2009. We had a lot to talk about as you see on the Agenda which resulted in the minutes from the summercamp. As you can see the location Trygve got for us was deep in the woods and had a marvellous view:
Back: Maciej, Peter, Ihsan, Trygve
Front: William, Dagobert, Sebastian
Front: William, Dagobert, Sebastian
Check out all the camp pictures below:
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OpenOffice 3.1 is released
August 18th, 2009We 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, 2009A 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!
OpenCSW founding meeting
February 5th, 2009For the first time in its 7 year history, members of the OpenCSW community gathered for a miniconf in Effretikon, Zurich (Switzerland) on December 6th 2008. Attendees were happy to welcome Phil Brown, founder of the Community Software effort, as well as fellow maintainers from different parts of Europe.
With the Blastwave/OpenCSW split in mind, which had put packaging efforts on hold over months, the main purpose of the meeting was to work out ways to avoid such situations in the future and settle on the direction the project should be heading to in the future.
Since its beginning the intention of Blastwave/CSW was to provide free software for the Solaris Operating Environment in a user-friendly way.
Today the OpenCSW project has 1800+ software packages in its catalogs and counts close to 2 million users worldwide. The project is run by volunteers and provides its packages free of charge to everyone.
As a result of the miniconf the “Open Community Software (OpenCSW) Project” was founded as an official association according to Swiss jurisdiction. The purpose of the association is to ensure the availability of the free, community-based software distribution known as OpenCSW. Its bylaws embody the core principles.
Contributors are welcome to join the association, as are new package maintainers. The association works free of charge and is not geared towards making profit. Philip Brown, Ihsan Dogan, and Dagobert Michelsen were voted on the board of the found association by the founding association members.
Alexander Maier, Trygve Laugstøl, Ihsan Dogan, Sebastian Kayser, Dagobert Michelsen, William Bonnet, Philip Brown, Dominique Laigle
There are more pictures from the event on Picasa and Flickr.
