Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Time	Event
1:40p	SQLite 3.8.0 released Version 3.8.0 of the SQLite database management library is out. "Do not fear the zero in this version number! The 3.8.0 release might easily have been called 3.7.18 instead. We decided to increase the minor version from 7 to 8 because of the rewrite of the query planner. But the software is quite stable and is ready for production use." Along with the new query planner, this release adds partial indexes and more; see the changelog for details. (Comment on this)
3:29p	Tuesday's security updates Debian has updated kfreebsd-9 (privilege escalation/information leak) and php5 (SSL server spoofing). Mageia has updated lcms (buffer overflows), puppet (multiple vulnerabilities), and xpdf (code execution). Mandriva has updated lcms (buffer overflows) and php (SSL server spoofing). SUSE has updated Mozilla Firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
6:30p	[$] Calibrating Calibre 1.0 File management does not seem to be a one-size-fits-all proposition. Thus, while general-purpose file managers exist, it often appears that much of the development effort goes into domain-specific management tools. We have a whole set of photo management applications, for example, and even more music managers. When it comes to electronic books, though, there seems to only be one viable project out there: Calibre. LWN last looked at Calibre almost exactly two years ago. The recent version 1.0 release provides an obvious opportunity to see what has been happening with this fast-moving utility. (Comment on this)

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