Open Source

PHP 5.3.5 and 5.2.17 released, fixes possible DoS

2011-01-10 Felix Ehlers

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 is assigned as CVE-2010-4645.

OpenLDAP 2.4.20 released

2009-12-03 Felix Ehlers

The OpenLDAP project announced the availability of OpenLDAP 2.4.20, which is a maintenance release that fixes about 40 bugs.

The Go Programming Language by Google

2009-11-11 Felix Ehlers

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/JavasSript. 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 released

2009-10-29 Felix Ehlers

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.

First Dovecot 2.0 alpha released

2009-10-14 Felix Ehlers

Timo Sirainen announced Dovecot v2.0.alpha1 release on the dovecot-news mailing list. It’s 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.