Open Source
Lighttpd 1.4.19 released
Felix EhlersLighttpd 1.4.19 is out!
This release is mainly a bugfixing and security release.
It is still being worked hard on the 1.5.0 release.
References:
Announcement on lighttpd website
Blog
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 7.0 released
Felix EhlersThe long awaited FreeBSD 7.0 Release is out.
Open Source
Hiawatha, the most secure webserver
Felix EhlersYesterday I found a webserver wich claims to be the most webserver around. It’s a lightweight daemon written in C with securty in mind.
Some interesting features compared to other webservers:
Cross-site scripting preventionDoS/flooding protectionSQL injection prevention
I will have a closer look on this…
References:
Hiawatha homepage
Hiawatha on FreeBSD, article by Dru Lavigne
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 8.3 realeased
Felix EhlersPostgreSQL 8.3 has been realeased!
New features are better performance, introduction of new datatypes for xml, arrays and UUIDs, logging to csv format, etc.
References:
Announcement
Feature list
Release notes
Security
Development of KisMAC stopped
Felix EhlersThe newly created german anti-hacker-paragraph 202c StGB let the developers of KisMAC to stop working on the project.
It’s not yet clear if development is temporarily suspended to bring it up again in the netherlands.