January 2011 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 160 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 160 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6387 (in HTML/ Bento Theme) [0] http://www.saschamanns.de/pub/OWN/HTML/OWN-160.html (in HTML/ Susebooks Theme) [0] http://www.saschamanns.de/pub/OWN/PDF/OWN-160.pdf (in PDF) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 159 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 159 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6337 (in HTML) [0] http://bit.ly/gciDn9 (in PDF) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 158 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 158 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6216 (in HTML) [0] http://bit.ly/iiaLzP (in PDF) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.1 has reached end of Novell support - 11.1 Evergreen goes on
by Marcus Meissner 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi, With the release of an opensc security fix on Thursday 13th January Novell has released the last update for openSUSE 11.1. openSUSE 11.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support by Novell. However, a community effort has been started to continue 11.1 maintenance under the codename of "Evergreen". The overview page of this project, how to activate and use it, and other details, is on: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen The Evergreen project is lead by openSUSE community member Wolfgang Rosenauer. Here are some statistics: openSUSE 11.1 was released on December 18th 2008, making it 2 years and 1 month of security and bugfix support. Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 11.0): Total updates: 707 (+63) Security: 467 (-18) Recommended: 236 (+79) Optional: 4 (+ 2) CVE Entries: 1175 (+34) There is a 4% decrease in the number of security updates compared to openSUSE 11.0. There is however a 2% increase in CVE numbers fixed. Top issues (compared to 11.0 for issues down to 5): 19 MozillaFirefox (+1) 14 kernel (+5) 11 acroread (+1) 10 java-1_6_0-openjdk (+5) 9 wireshark (+1) 9 opera (-3) 9 libopenssl-devel (+4) 9 flash-player (+2) 8 seamonkey (-1) 8 MozillaThunderbird (-1) 7 java-1_6_0-sun (0) 7 clamav (+3) 7 apache2-mod_php5 (0) 6 moodle (-1) 6 libpng-devel (0) 6 samba (0) 5 postgresql 5 krb5 5 java-1_5_0-sun (-1) 5 cups (-2) And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count (down to 5) (compared to 11.0 for the top): 163 MozillaFirefox (+20) 115 acroread (+22) 114 java-1_6_0-sun (+12) 83 seamonkey (0) 83 kernel (+8) 83 java-1_6_0-openjdk (+33) 82 flash-player (+18) 70 MozillaThunderbird (+16) 51 java-1_5_0-sun (-12, EOLed during the lifetime) 41 mozilla-xulrunner191 38 php5 (+14) 33 wireshark (-2) 28 mozilla-xulrunner190 (-12, EOLed during the lifetime) 28 moodle (+1) 27 opera (-4) 21 xpdf (-2) 17 freetype2 15 mysql (+2) 14 openssl (+5) 14 pidgin/finch (-4) 13 libpoppler4 (+-0 to libpoppler3) 13 kdegraphics3 (+2) 12 krb5 (+4) 12 samba (+-0) 11 postgresql (+1) 11 ghostscript (+-0) 10 tomcat6 (-1) 10 MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE 10 firefox35upgrade 10 clamav (-7) 8 ruby (-9) 8 mozilla-xulrunner181 (-28, EOLed during the lifetime) 8 poppler 8 cups (-6) 7 OpenOffice_org 7 kvm (0) 7 gvim (0) 7 apache2 (-4) 6 qemu (0) 6 libpng (0) 6 glibc 5 strongswan (-2) 5 squid (0) 5 bind (-2) # security updates by count # grep -l type..secur updateinfo-*|sed -e 's/^updateinfo-//;s/-[0-9]*.xml$//;'|sort|uniq -c|sort -n +0 -r|less # grep CVE- update* |perl -e '%cves=();while (<>) { while (/(CVE-2...-....)/) { $cve{$1}++; s/CVE-2...-....//;} } print join("\n",sort keys %cve)."\n";' | wc -l # for i in updateinfo-* ; do echo -n "$i " ; grep CVE- $i|perl -e '%cves=();while (<>) { while (/(CVE-2...-....)/) { $cve{$1}++; s/CVE-2...-....//;} } print join("\n",sort keys %cve)."\n";' | wc -l ; done |perl -e 'while (<>) { /^updateinfo-(\S*)-\d*.xml (\d*)$/; $cnt{$1}+=$2; } ; foreach (sort { $cnt{$b} <=> $cnt{$a} } keys %cnt) { print "$cnt{$_}\t\t$_\n";} '

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 157 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 157 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6512 (in HTML) [0] http://en.opensuse.org/File:OWN-157.pdf (in PDF) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Weekly News 156 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 156 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6184 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0