Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Time	Event
12:32p	IPython 2.0 released Version 2.0.0 of the IPython system is out. The list of new features includes interactive widgets in the notebook, a new security model, directory navigation, and much more; see the announcement for details or this article from March for an overview of the system. (Comment on this)
4:17p	Ubuntu One service shutting down Canonical has announced the imminent shutdown of its "Ubuntu One" cloud storage service. "As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store. The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted." (Comment on this)
4:25p	Security updates for Wednesday CentOS has updated xalan-j2 (C6; C5: information disclosure/code execution). Fedora has updated mingw-libpng (F20: denial of service), openstack-nova (F19: two vulnerabilities), rubygem-rack-ssl (F20: cross-site scripting), squid (F20: denial of service), and v8 (F19: multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated xalan-j2 (OL6; OL5: information disclosure/code execution). Red Hat has updated xalan-j2 (RHEL5&6: information disclosure/code execution). Scientific Linux has updated xalan-j2 (SL5&6: information disclosure/code execution). SUSE has updated mutt (SLE11 SP3: code execution) and Xen (SLES10 SP3 LTSS: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
6:04p	The Document Foundation announces the Document Liberation Project The Document Foundation has launched the Document Liberation Project. "The Document Liberation Project was created in the hope that it would empower individuals, organizations, and governments to recover their data from proprietary formats and provide a mechanism to transition that data into open file formats, returning effective control over the content from computer companies to the actual authors. Since the birth of LibreOffice in 2010, several community members have taken it upon themselves to improve format interoperability with proprietary applications. Encouraged by community interest, even from outside the LibreOffice project, the developers have so far provided read support for proprietary file formats including MS Visio, CorelDraw, MS Publisher, Apple Keynote, and a handful of different old Macintosh formats. In addition to LibreOffice, import libraries for these file formats are used by Abiword, Calligra, CorelDRAW File Viewer, Inkscape and Scribus." (Comment on this)
6:30p	[$] The most powerful contributor agreement James Bottomley is perhaps best known as the maintainer of the SCSI subsystem in the kernel. But, he said in his 2014 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit talk, like most free software developers he tends to run across licensing issues frequently. Developers often respond by becoming armchair lawyers, and, by his own admission, James is no exception: armchair lawyering on the topic of contributor agreements was just what he was offering to his audience. Click below (subscribers only) for the full report. (Comment on this)

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