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Flash Player 9 Update Release Candidate available
Adobe has released an updated release candidate of their proprietary software flash player. It has some new features such as support for H.264 video, but it really does not matter as the license remains totally unacceptable.
KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 Released
KDE Community are now immensely proud to have put the second Alpha version of what will probably be the worlds most popular desktop environment in a few years.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12 marks the ned of Firefox v1.5
Firefox 1.5.0.12 is now rolled out and it is the last security update which will be made for Firefox 1.5.x. Linux distributions will probably update their packages with security patches, but there will be no more official 1.5.x releases. Mozilla Corporation attitude is update to 2.x or switch browser.
SpamAssassin 3.2.1 and 3.1.9 released
These new versions fix a local user symlink-attack denial of service vulnerability which is possible under extremely rare configurations.
KDE 3.5.7 Released
ProFTPD: Local privilege escalation
Linux.conf.au videos available
Tor 0.1.2.7-alpha is out
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Europe Office Opens in Brussels
KDE 3.5 Released

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