Some of you may have heard of a current major outbreak of a virus known as Downadup that has been reported at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7842013.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7832652.stm. It has been estimated that move than 9 million PCs are infected across the world.
ClamAV detects Downadup, also known as Conficker, as Worm.Downadup. Once on a system it downloads [...]

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Pearified.com, an external provider of some PEAR packages used in the Midgard environment is at the moment unavailable. This affects the following Midgard dependencies:

• Role_Web: installing public files to server DocumentRoot, deprecated by PEAR’s new www role
• Javascript_Prototype: the prototype javascript library used by some components
• Javascript_Scriptaculous: the Scriptaculous javascript library used by some components

Because of this, new installs of Midgard are temporarily unavailable. See bug #747 for more information.

The Midgard team is preparing a 8.09.3.1 maintenance release to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Today, 27th January 2009, ClamAV’s signature team investigated and identified Trojan.Agent-70954, the 500,000th entry in its database. Well done to all the team for working so hard to produce a quality database.
From time to time we are asked to keep the size of the database down by trimming old signatures; but, as the statistics-gathering program [...]

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We are pleased to announce the release of eZ Publish 4.1.0alpha2. With this release, around 59 bug fixes and enhancements have been incorporated. The extensions coupled to this release also have received updates (mainly eZ OE, eZ Flow).

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We have created bitweaver2.5 in the builds directory. This will go into sf.net release later today, unless I hear someone scream.

Please test now. Either download a copy for yourself, or register at http://testing.bitweaver.org and push all the bells and whistles you can. That site will be nuked shortly.

We need help running administrivia for the release. Please volunteer.

Along with this new release, we have changed our approach to releasing. For 5 years now (fear), we have been very conservative releasing rock solid releases that have locked schemas intermittently. That has bound us up, and greatly stunted our growth. 2.5 allows for proper version checking of package dependencies, and forces an installer run if things don’t match. Kudos to /xing for getting this in, and should be a boon for allowing decoupled growth of packages.

We now plan on releasing 6 times a year, regardless the state where we are and where think we might be. See the Bitweaver Release Schedule.

We are no longer running cvs branches (in fact we haven’t for several years now) because the merging is WAY too painful. Some packages need branch/merge, and those are handled ccordingly.

Lastly, DO NOT CHECK IN BROKEN CODE. This has been the unstated rule for years now as well, now it is stated.

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We are happy to announce the release of Textpattern CMS 4.0.8.

Textpattern 4.0.8 is a maintenance release fixing some bugs and ironing out a few glitches which sneaked in during the introduction of new features in our previous release.

Changes in…

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In an effort to open up the development of CrunchBang, I have created a new project on Launchpad. The project is to be driven by the CrunchBangers team. CrunchBangers is an open team and anyone with an interest in the future development of the distribution is welcome to join. I have currently set the introduction [...]

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Banshee 1.4.2 is a stable release with many bug fixes and minor improvements. Fixed and improved are RSS feed parsing, library rescanning, occasional startup freezes, launching on device insertion, several crashers, and improved playback on OS X (still a technology preview/alpha release).

Get it now!

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Decision News Media, a Silver
eZ Partner, is the publisher behind
FoodNavigator.com, FoodNavigator-USA.com, and 16 other specialized news websites. It uses
eZ Publish as the base for their Web properties. eZ interviewed Antoine Olgiati, Manager of Information Systems at
Decision News Media, about the company, its websites, and how it managed to publish 18 eZ Publish sites in 7 months.

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This new minor release of Ario fixes a few bugs found in previous version and update some translations.

• Fix compilation error on OpenBSD
• Fix slowness on deconnection or on ario exit.
• Update elapsed text field when slider is moved (Patch from Samuel Cuella)
• Remove deprecated usage of GtkTooltips
• New croatian translation.

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