Ubuntu Weekly Report: 4th - 10th May, 2008

This week we've released a guide for those of you who want a secure and encrypted Ubuntu operating system. Data encryption is one of the best methods to protect your sensitive files, especially if you own a laptop. Unfortunately, on the Ubuntu OS, this is only available in the text mode installer. But that's why this guide is here, to help you install a fully encrypted Ubuntu OS on your computer.

In other news, we would like to inform you that the Ubuntu Brainstorm project continues to grow and was updated this week with the possibility to bookmark ideas, developer comments are now visible, better user information and statistics, and two new browsing methods for all ideas: by most popular and by latest ideas.

Now, let's move on to the security updates and fixes for all the Ubuntu releases. First, the common security updates:

• CUPS vulnerability
• macs vulnerabilities
• KDE vulnerability
• Thunderbird vulnerabilities
• OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities
• LTSP vulnerability
• Speex vulnerability
• vorbis-tools vulnerability
• GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability

Let's start now with the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS updates:

• Cupsys 1.2.2-0 ubuntu0.6.06.9
• Thunderbird 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15
• Xemacs21 21.4.18-1 ubuntu1.1
• Emacs21 21.4a-3 ubuntu2.2
• Clamav 0.92~dfsg-2
• Openldap 2.2 2.2.26-5 ubuntu2.7
• Cyrus Sasl 2 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.1 ubuntu3
• Hsqldb 1.8.0.2-1 ubuntu1.1
• Openoffice.org for AMD64 2.0.2-2 ubuntu12.6-1
• Openoffice.org for i386 2.0.2-2 ubuntu12.6
• Tsp 0.87.1
• Gzip 1.3.5-12 ubuntu0.2
• Speex 1.1.11.1-1 ubuntu0.3
• Vorbis Tools 1.1.1-3 ubuntu0.1
• Gstreamer Plugins Good 0.10_0.10.3-0 ubuntu4.1

Here are the updates for Ubuntu 7.04: • Cupsys 1.2.8-0 ubuntu8.4 • Xemacs21 21.4.19-2 ubuntu0.1 • Emacs21 21.4a+1-2 ubuntu1.2 • Clamav 0.90.2-0 ubuntu1.7 • kdelibs 3.5.6-0 ubuntu14.3 • Thunderbird 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15 • kde4libs 3.80.3-0 ubuntu4.1 • Hsqldb 1.8.0.7-1 ubuntu2.1 • Openoffice.org 2.2.0-1 ubuntu6 • Ltsp 5.0.7.1 • Speex 1.1.12-3 ubuntu0.7.04.1 • Vorbis Tools 1.1.1-6 ubuntu0.1 • Gstreamer Plugins Good 0.10_0.10.5-1 ubuntu2.1

And those for Ubuntu 7.10: • Cupsys 1.3.2-1 ubuntu7.7 • Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 • Xemacs21 21.4.20-1.1 ubuntu0.1 • Emacs21 21.4a+1-5 ubuntu4.1 • Emacs22 22.1-0 ubuntu5.2 • Clamav 0.91.2-3 ubuntu2.4 • kdelibs 3.5.8-0 ubuntu3.4 • Realplay 10.0.9-1 gutsy1 • kde4libs 3.94.0-0 ubuntu1.1 • Hsqldb 1.8.0.8-1 ubuntu1.1 • Openoffice.org 2.3.0-1 ubuntu5.4 • Ltsp 5.0.39.1 • Speex 1.1.12-3 ubuntu0.7.10.1 • Vorbis Tools 1.1.1-13 ubuntu0.1 • Gstreamer Plugins Good 0.10_0.10.6-0 ubuntu4.1

Finally, below are the updates for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:

• Xulrunner 1.9 1.9 • GCC3.4 3.4.6-6 ubuntu4 • Torque 2.1.8+dfsg-0 ubuntu1.1 • Linux Restricted Modules Envy 2.6.24 2.6.24.500-500.26 • Xserver Xorg Video Intel 2:2.2.1-1 ubuntu13 • Gnome Panel 1:2.22.1.3-0 ubuntu1 • Chillispot 1.0-8 ubuntu1 • Ubuntu VM Builder 0.4-0 ubuntu0.1 • Xemacs21 21.4.21-1 ubuntu3.1 • Emacs21 21.4a+1-5.3 ubuntu1.1 • Emacs22 22.1-0 ubuntu10.1 • kdelibs 3.5.9-0 ubuntu7.1 • Evolution Data Server 2.22.1.1-0 ubuntu1 • Evolution 2.22.1.1-0 ubuntu1 • VirtualBox OSE Modules 24.0.1 • Genpo 0.9.6+dfsg.1-0 ubuntu2.1 • Gnome Settings Daemon 2.22.1-0 ubuntu2 • Linux Ubuntu Modules 2.6.24 2.6.24-17.25 • EnvyNG 1.1.1 ubuntu14 • HAL 0.5.11 RC2-1 ubuntu8.1 • Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 • kde4libs 4.0.3-0 ubuntu5.1 • Glade3 3.4.5-0 ubuntu1 • Gnome System Monitor 2.22.1-0 ubuntu2 • Glib2.0 2.16.3-1 ubuntu1 • Gnome Desktop 2.22.1-0 ubuntu6.2 • Kaffeine 0.8.6-0 ubuntu8.1 • kdebase 4:3.5.9-0 ubuntu7.2 • Lightning Extension Locales 0.7- ubuntu1.1

• GTK+2.0 2.12.9-3 ubuntu4 • GCC3.4 3.4.6-6 ubuntu5 • GCC3.3 3.3.6-15 ubuntu6 • Virt Manager 0.5.3-0 ubuntu10 • Python 2.5 2.5.2-2 ubuntu5 • Devscripts 2.10.11 ubuntu5.8.04.1 • Linux Restricted Modules 2.6.24 2.6.24.12-17.36 • EnvyNG 1.1.1 ubuntu15 • Linux Restricted Modules Envy 2.6.24 2.6.24.500-500.27 • Gksu 2.0.0-5 ubuntu3 • Nfs Utils 1:1.1.2-2 ubuntu2.1 • Speex 1.1.12-3 ubuntu0.8.04.1 • Vorbis-Tools 1.1.1-15 ubuntu0.1 • Gstreamer Plugins Good 0.10_0.10.7-3 ubuntu0.1 • Ltspfs 0.5.0~bzr20080109-3 ubuntu3 • Evolution 2.22.1.1-0 ubuntu2 • Evolution Data Server 2.22.1.1-0 ubuntu2 • Transmission 1.06-0 ubuntu5 • Cubuntu Docs 8.04.2.1 • Update Manager 0.87.27 • Linux Restricted Modules Envy 2.6.24 2.6.24.500-500.28 • MySQL 5.0.51a-3 ubuntu5.1 • Bash 3.2-0 ubuntu17 • Munin 1.2.5-2 ubuntu3.1 • PHP5 5.2.4-2 ubuntu5.1 • Nut 2.2.1-2.1 ubuntu7.1 • Clive 0.4.3-1 ubuntu1.1 • Friendly Recovery 0.1.2

As you can see, there were a lot of updates this week for all editions of Ubuntu! See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report and always remember to keep your Ubuntu up-to-date!

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