Fedora Weekly Report: 3rd - 9th March, 2008

Another week has just ended. It was a silent one, with only a few news and interesting facts from the Fedora world. Fedora 8 gets a few security advisories and Fedora 7 has... seven security advisories.

Jon Stanley created a few Feedburner RSS feeds - actually three of them - to assist in bug triage. The three feeds show the bugs related to Fedora 7, 8 and 9 (which is still in development).

Roland Wolters created a tutorial on how to test the WebKit engine in Fedora. WebKit is a web page rendering engine, forked from KHTML by Apple, and is now developed by the WebKit project, with developers coming from Trolltech, KDE, Apple, Adobe, Gnome, etc. This engine will be included in the 4.4 release of Qt. It seems that Midori, a light-weight web browser based on WebKit, is on its way to Fedora, so we will have it on Fedora 9.

The Spiderwick Chronicles, a movie that's full of special effects, magical creatures, goblins and some other things that can only be born through the "magic" of computers, was created using Fedora on Intel-based Apple Mac Pro workstations. I can hardly wait to see the movie and take a look at those special effects!

The Fedora Compute Grid Project, an idea to create a million-node compute grid using Condor and other applications, was looking for a name, as Karsten Wade announced. Jeff Spaleta came with the name "Trellis", a name that was adopted very fast. A trellis is a structure of open latticework, used for supporting vines and other creeping plants. That's a fine name, I think... Anyway, the functionality is more important than the name, we'll see how everything turns out in the end.

The security advisories for Fedora 7 are:

￭ phpMyAdmin-2.11.5-1.fc7
￭ mediawiki-1.10.4-38.fc7
￭ lighttpd-1.4.18-3.fc7
￭ kronolith-2.1.7-1.fc7
￭ pcre-7.3-3.fc7
￭ evolution-2.10.3-8.fc7
￭ ghostscript-8.15.4-4.fc7

Let's take a look at those for Fedora 8:

￭ phpMyAdmin-2.11.5-1.fc8
￭ ghostscript-8.61-8.fc8
￭ synce-sync-engine-0.11-6.fc8
￭ librapi-0.11-1.fc8
￭ vdccm-0.10.1-1.fc8
￭ synce-kpm-0.11-3.fc8
￭ wbxml2-0.9.2-12.fc8
￭ synce-serial-0.11-1.fc8
￭ librra-0.11-1.fc8
￭ pywbxml-0.1-2.fc8
￭ odccm-0.11-1.fc8
￭ synce-gnomevfs-0.11-1.fc8
￭ synce-gnome-0.11-2.fc8
￭ libsynce-0.11-2.fc8
￭ nx-3.1.0-25.1.fc8
￭ libtirpc-0.1.7-15.fc8
￭ lighttpd-1.4.18-6.fc8
￭ mediawiki-1.10.4-38.fc8
￭ evolution-2.12.3-3.fc8
￭ kronolith-2.1.7-1.fc8

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