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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
  The seventh maintenance release of KDE 3.5 supports 65 languages, adds a few new features to the KDE PIM package and has piles of bug-fixes.
• ProFTPD: Local privilege escalation
  Flaw in the ProFTPD mod_ctrls module in versions <1.3.1_rc1 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the FTP Daemon if the module is enabled. Also, versions prior to 1.3.0a allows remote attackers to execute code.
• 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
• French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software
• Opera users must upgrade to 8.51