weekly news - 20040813

[maintainer at lunar-linux.org]

Hi!

Here's the latest weekly news edition!

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Hi everyone!

Yes I'm back again.... I was already last week but work creeps up on you
when you leave for holidays. That makes it 4 weeks since my last editorial,
a bit late of course.

That doesn't mean nothing interesting has happened. On the contrary! We
have seen quite a few updates out there and we're working on a few
important ones right now.

Most importantly, the 2.4.27 kernel has been released and is partially 
now the default kernel. We're currently testing the grsec patches and
others in order to get all kernel versions moved to .27. As usual there
are quite some security related fixes in the latest kernel release.

Next week more!

/sofar

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New modules:
  MySQL-python-0.9.2: MySQL support for Python.
  gaim-themes-0.0.1: A collection of user-submitted Gaim smiley themes
      genius-0.7.0: Genius is a calculator program similiar in some aspects to BC, Matlab or Maple
      mod_mono-1.0: Apache module for ASP.NET pages
       winelib-0.3: winelib, a module for using Wine as a shared library
           xsp-1.0: The XSP server is a small web server that hosts the Mono System.Web classes for running what is commonly known as ASP.NET

Removed modules:
  MySQLdb

New versions:
  Digest-SHA1             :            2.01 ->            2.10
  HTML-Parser             :            3.35 ->            3.36
  MIME-Base64             :            2.12 ->            3.01
  Net-DNS                 :            0.23 ->            0.47
  Test-Simple             :            0.45 ->            0.47
  URI                     :            1.30 ->            1.31
  apcupsd                 :         3.10.14 ->         3.10.15
  automake                :             1.9 ->           1.9.1
  balsa                   :           2.2.1 ->           2.2.2
  curl                    :          7.12.0 ->          7.12.1
  d4x                     :           2.4.1 ->           2.5.0
  devhelp                 :             0.9 ->           0.9.1
  dietlibc                :            0.26 ->            0.27
  easytag                 :            0.30 ->            0.31
  encfs                   :           1.1.5 ->           1.1.6
  esound                  :          0.2.34 ->          0.2.35
  evolution               :        1.5.92.1 ->        1.5.92.2
  expect                  :          5.40.1 ->          5.42.1
  fasm                    :            1.53 ->            1.54
  gaim                    :            0.80 ->            0.81
  gnome-python            :           2.0.2 ->          2.5.90
  gnome-vfs2              :         2.6.1.1 ->           2.6.2
  gnutls                  :          1.0.17 ->          1.0.18
  gtksee                  :         0.5.5.1 ->           0.5.6
  icewm                   :          1.2.14 ->          1.2.15
  k3b                     :         0.11.13 ->         0.11.14
  krename                 :           3.0.1 ->           3.0.2
  kxmleditor              :           1.1.0 ->           1.1.2
  lbreakout2              :           2.4.1 ->             2.5
  lftp                    :           3.0.6 ->           3.0.7
  libgnome                :         2.6.1.1 ->         2.6.1.2
  libgpg-error            :             0.7 ->             1.0
  libmng                  :           1.0.7 ->           1.0.8
  libnids                 :            1.18 ->            1.19
  libtool                 :           1.5.6 ->           1.5.8
  libwww-perl             :            5.65 ->           5.800
  linux-beta              :       2.6.8-rc3 ->       2.6.8-rc4
  linux-beta-mm           :   2.6.8-rc2-mm2 ->   2.6.8-rc4-mm1
  linux-stable            :          2.4.26 ->          2.4.27
  linux-vanilla           :          2.4.26 ->          2.4.27
  mozilla                 :           1.7.1 ->           1.7.2
  mrtg                    :         2.10.14 ->         2.10.15
  neverball               :           1.3.6 ->           1.3.7
  povray                  :             3.6 ->           3.6.1
  procps                  :           3.2.2 ->           3.2.3
  pygtk2                  :          2.3.95 ->          2.3.96
  slrn                    :         0.9.7.4 ->         0.9.8.0
  sysstat                 :           5.0.5 ->           5.0.6
  wv                      :           1.0.0 ->           1.0.2


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The Lunar-Linux team