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This release resolves a critical security issue where the PHP interpreter can hang on a string to double conversion if x87 FPU registers are internally used. This DoS vulnerability is reported as PHP bug #53632 and CVE-2010-4645.
To verify if your system is also affected, you can use this script …
The OpenLDAP project announced the availability of OpenLDAP 2.4.20, which is a maintenance release that fixes about 40 bugs.
Here is the download page: http://www.openldap.org/software/download/
Google created a new systems language, the Go Programming Language.
The language is a mix between C/C++ and a dynamically typed language like Python/Javascript. The language has a garbage-collector and avoids the overhead of C-style include files and libraries which results in fast compile times for large projects …
Lighttpd 1.4.24 is out which brings TLS SNI support, connection state handling and improved FastCGI code. Also a lot of bugs were fixes.
Have a look at the release announcement for a full list of changes.
Timo Sirainen announced Dovecot v2.0.alpha1 on the dovecot-news mailing list. It is not fully finished and polished but he states that it should work for most people. The core and main developer Sirainen already started using it without noticing any errors until now.
Dovecot 2.0 introduces according …
