From the Openbravo folks: Openbravo announces the immediate availability of Openbravo ERP R2.35 Maintenance Pack 4, the latest maintenance pack in the Openbravo ERP 2.35 series.
This a stabilization release with no additional functionality. It is intended for production usage.
Concurrently to 2.35 MP4, Openbravo has also initiated pre-alpha testing with limited Community involvement of Openbravo ERP 2.40. The public alpha testing phase is expected to begin shortly.
A complete list of bug fixes and issues is available.
Announcement from the Asterisk people: the Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.19.2. Summary:
This release includes some IAX2 channel driver updates. Asterisk 1.4.19.1 was released to address an IAX2 security vulnerability. Unfortunately, the changes to address the security issue had an unfortunate negative impact on IAX2 performance in Asterisk. These issues have been addressed and the related fixes are included in this release. The performance of IAX2 in Asterisk due to these changes should be far better than it was even before the changes were made for the security issue.
More information from the Asterisk web site.
After several years of being in the 0.9-and-below version numbers, Wine now has a release candidate for version 1.0.
Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API running on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. In layman’s terms, it lets you run Windows programs on Unix-like operating systems, including Linux.
OpenOffice.org has just released the 3.0 Beta of the open source office productivity suite. This version includes new enhancements like MS Office 2007 import filters, ODF 1.2 support, and VBA support. Many of the new features pertain to the Calc spreadsheet component, including an optimization solver, workbook sharing, and 1024 columns per Calc sheet.
Perhaps the most significant part of this release is support for Mac OS X.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta is now ready for download.
Over at Sun’s Java site, there’s a lot of attention on Glassfish, in particular with it v3 release. The Glassfish v3 Technology Preview 2 gives an early look at what’s to come.
What is Glassfish? It’s a new application server for Jave Enterprise Edition platofmr, based on source code by Sun and Oracle’s TopLink Persistence system, which uses uses a relational database to store Java objects for persistence. Glassfish uses a derivative of Apache Tomcat as servlet container, but incorporates the Grizzly Java NIO (a collection of Java APIs for intensive I/O operations) for scalability and speed.
Quoting MySQL VP for Community Kaj Arnö:
- MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source,
- so will the MySQL Connectors, and
- so will the main storage engines we ship.
- MySQL 6.0’s pending backup functionality will be open source,
- the MyISAM driver for MySQL Backup will be open source, and
- the encryption and compression backup features will be open source,
Work on the next release of Asterisk, version 1.4.20, continues apace: The Asterisk development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.20-rc2.
From the Asterisk web site:
This release is a release candidate for the upcoming official release of 1.4.20. It includes a fix for a SIP channel driver regression introduced in 1.4.20-rc1, among a number of other changes.
The release candidate is available on the download site.
