Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Time	Event
1:57p	Baker: Celebrating 15 Years of a Better Web Mitchell Baker looks back at Mozilla's first 15 years and ponders the years to come as well. "In the coming era both the opportunities and threats to the Web are just as big as they were 15 years ago. As the role of data grows and device capabilities expand, the Internet will become an even more central part of our lives. The need for individuals to have some control over how this works and what we experience is fundamental. Mozilla can — and must — play a key role again. We have the vision, the products and the technology to do this. We know how to enable people to participate, both by contributing to our specific activities and coming up with their own ideas that advance the bigger cause of enriching the Web." (Comment on this)
2:04p	MATE 1.6 released Version 1.6 of the MATE desktop environment is available. "This release is a giant step forward from the 1.4 release. In this release, we have replaced many deprecated packages and libraries with new technologies available in GLib. We have also added a lot of new features to MATE." See the announcement for a list of those new features. (Comment on this)
4:07p	Mozilla and Samsung building a new browser engine The Mozilla project has announced a collaboration with Samsung to build "Servo", a next-generation browser rendering engine. "Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilize the performance of tomorrow’s massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web. To those ends, Servo is written in Rust, a new, safe systems language developed by Mozilla along with a growing community of enthusiasts." (Comment on this)
5:01p	Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated xulrunner (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities), and thunderbird (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated moodle (F18; F17: multiple vulnerabilities), php (F18; F17: multiple vulnerabilities), 389-ds-base (F18: information exposure), mingw-openssl (F18: multiple vulnerabilities), and perl (F17: denial of service). Mageia has updated php (multiple vulnerabilities), firebird (remote code execution), privoxy (proxy spoofing), and zoneminder (command execution). openSUSE has updated ruby (denial of service). Oracle has updated thunderbird (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities) and firefox (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated kernel (privilege escalation), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), rubygem-actionpack (cross-site scripting), ruby193-rubygem-activerecord (denial of service), jenkins (man-in-the-middle attacks), and ruby193-ruby (multiple vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities) Slackware has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated kernel (11:10: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
10:05p	Google's "Blink" rendering engine Google has announced that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine to make a new project called Blink. "Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down the collective pace of innovation - so today, we are introducing Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit." (Comment on this)

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