Thursday, October 18th, 2012

Time	Event
1:21a	[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 18, 2012 The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 18, 2012 is available. (Comment on this)
3:43p	OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator The Apache Software Foundation has announced that OpenOffice has graduated and is now a full-fledged Apache project. See the press release for more information. "The graduation of OpenOffice is testament to The Apache Way successfully scaling from incubating 'ingredient brands' to a highly-established end-user product." (Comment on this)
6:11p	Thursday's security updates CentOS has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (C5, C6; multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.7.0-openjdk (C6; multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated libexif (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated freeradius (F16; code execution), gitolite3 (F16, F17; path traversal vulnerability), hostapd (F16, F17; denial of service), java-1.6.0-openjdk (F16; multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.7.0-openjdk (F16, F17; multiple vulnerabilities), mom (F17; denial of service), and openstack-swift (F17; code execution). Oracle has updated kernel (denial of service). Scientific Linux has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel (denial of service). Ubuntu has updated python-2.4 (8.04 LTS; multiple vulnerabilities) and python-2.5 (8.04 LTS; multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:23p	Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) released Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" has been released. Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core images are available for download now; the official variants (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio) are expected to follow later today. Among the changes in this edition, of course, is support for UEFI secure boot. (Comment on this)
7:48p	Kernel 3.2.32 released Ben Hutchings has released the 3.2.32 stable kernel, brimming with important fixes. (Comment on this)

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