Sunday, September 23, 2007

OpenOffice.org 2.3

OpenOffice.org 2.3

OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it.

Plus: It is only with 2.3 that users can make full use of our growing extensions library.

* Extensions
* Release Notes
* Security Bulletin

Download OpenOffice 2.3.0

Friday, September 21, 2007

phpMyAdmin 2.11.1 is released

Information about version 2.11.1

Fixes:

- bug #1783667 [export] NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO and MySQL version
- bug #1780098 [GUI] Logout causes CSS loss, thanks to Juergen Wind
. incorrect field ids, thanks to Michael Keck
- bug #1787522 [view] wrong choice in algorithm drop-down
- bug #1777620 [GUI] Table Print preview: missing column header,
thanks to Mario Rohkrämer
- Do not display "Your MySQL library..." if only the Z part
of X.Y.Z version is different
- bugs #1767759, 1216521 [data] Duplicate entry error Browse feature:
this minor feature removed due to its complexity
- bug #1774825 [operations] Rename database loses charset info
- bug #1791568 [core] Undefined cfg, thanks to Christian Schmidt
- bug #1782332 [structure] New table form does not overtake data
- bug #1793763 [requirements] minimum PHP should be 4.2.0
- patch #1787915 Avoid CSS reloading on every click, thanks to Juergen Wind
- bug #1798627 [GUI] Wrong storage engine displayed

Download phpMyAdmin 2.11.1

Saturday, September 8, 2007

phpMyAdmin 2.11.0 is released

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.


Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.11, which will probably be the last series supporting PHP 4.

This version supports creating VIEWs from query results and can manage triggers, procedures and functions. It also supports MySQL 5.0.37 query profiling and has an improved interface for servers hosting thousands of databases and tables.

You can download phpMyAdmin
Latest stable version is:
phpMyAdmin 2.11.0
Older versions

Sunday, September 2, 2007

CentOS 5 Live CD



CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.0. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.0, Evolution-2.8, Firefox-1.5, Thunderbird-1.5, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

LiveCD
CentOS has released a LiveCD for i386. It can be downloaded via the normal i386 ISO directory. The password for root and centos_user for the LiveCD is 12qwaszx (you should change it while using).

Links
Distro Release Announcement
LiveCD Release Announcement

Download: i386 | x86_64

Saturday, September 1, 2007

PHP 5.2.4 Released

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.4. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.X branch with over 120 various bug fixes in addition to resolving several low priority security bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.4 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.4, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.4:

* Fixed a floating point exception inside wordwrap() (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson)
* Fixed several integer overflows inside the GD extension (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson)
* Fixed size calculation in chunk_split() (Reported by Gerhard Wagner)
* Fixed integer overflow in str[c]spn(). (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson)
* Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens. (Reported by Stanislav Malyshev)
* Fixed zend_alter_ini_entry() memory_limit interruption vulnerability. (Reported by Stefan Esser)
* Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL extensions not to be allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active. (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson)
* Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378) (Reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz)
* Fixed a possible invalid read in glob() win32 implementation (CVE-2007-3806) (Reported by shinnai)
* Fixed a possible buffer overflow in php_openssl_make_REQ (Reported by zatanzlatan at hotbrev dot com)
* Fixed an open_basedir bypass inside glob() function (Reported by dr at peytz dot dk)
* Fixed a possible open_basedir bypass inside session extension when the session file is a symlink (Reported by c dot i dot morris at durham dot ac dot uk)
* Improved fix for MOPB-03-2007.
* Corrected fix for CVE-2007-2872.

For users upgrading to PHP 5.2 from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1, an upgrade guide is available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.2.4.