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VirtualBox 4.2.2, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the ChangeLog for details. Download from here.

A hole in Firefox 16 makes it possible for a malicious site to access a user's browsing history, Mozilla security chief Michael Coates revealed in a blog yesterday. Mozilla 16 was released on Tuesday but pulled a day later because of the vulnerability which would allow a hacker to suck out URLs from the browser history of a visitor of a malicious page.

ICT team at NHS trust roll out next phase of open source patient record system developed in-house. Moorfields will invest £3.5m in the project over four years, but plans to recoup its investment by delivering cost savings of £4.5m over the same period.

VirtualBox 4.1.22 (released 2012-09-07)

Download from: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.22/

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression, bug #9897) VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests) VMM: respect RAM preallocation while restoring saved state. VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only) RTC: fixed a potential corruption of CMOS bank 1 Mac OS X hosts: installer fixes for Leopard (4.1.20 regression) Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)

Shake it Up, a Disney sitcom that screens on The Disney Channel around the world, has slipped in an insult to open source software. The show, which tracks the activities of a group of aspiring dancers on a TV show called "Shake it Up, Chicago", appears to be aimed at tweens. We make that assertion based on the age of comments on its web site, the brightly-coloured costumes and stereotypical big-brush-strokes characters. In the offending episode one such character, a squeaky-voiced, glasses-and-argyle-jumper-wearing kid who is clearly meant to be a nerd, is asked to fix another character's stricken computer.

Stability enhancements and bugfixes thanks to a large, diverse and rapidly growing developer community Improvements in Calc, Impress, font handling and compatibility to third-party formats. This release fixes a number of bugs and further improves the stability of the software, making it the best version available for corporate and enterprise adoption. Among the changes are improvements in Calc, Impress, in the handling of fonts as well as enhancements with regards to importing and exporting third-party formats.

Frank Reininghaus, the new maintainer of KDE's Dolphin file manager has put out a call for contributors to the project. The original creator of Dolphin, Peter Penz, stepped down from leadership of the project last month and Reininghaus sees involving new developers with the project as one of his most important tasks.

Chrome version 20 represents a major step forward for the security of the Google browser, at least for Linux users, for whom this has often been a somewhat neglected area. It introduces a new sandbox concept which precisely regulates and filters the system calls a process is able to make.

On Wednesday 20th June 2012 Oracle released VirtualBox-4.1.18. Minor bug fixes and preparation for the Linux 3.5 kernels.

June 8, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place.