patches

Wazi: Mercurial Queues provides an incredibly useful way of managing patch queues, including multiple and versioned patch queues.

Flash Player and Google Chrome get patches against attacks currently seen in the wild.

Users should change their passwords to mitigate threats posed by the accidental leak of perhaps millions of account identity details.

Two entries in this month's security update, released Tuesday, blocks Windows 7 users from connecting to VMware's View Connection Servers, according to a VMware security bulletin.

As expected, Microsoft today released two "important" patches in its March security update.

Dissociated Press: "Release early, release often. That mantra has served open source really well because it provides an opportunity for developers to get in and provide feedback (and patches) through the lifecycle of a project, and not when something is completely finished and would require huge amounts of efforts to fix problems that could be caught early."

Wine-Reviews: "Now, this is where I confirmed (I kinda knew, and mentioned it in a previous blog post) that there is a real problem with sending patches to Wine."

Linux Blog Safari: "For some, Redmond's decision to apply its "Community Promise" to C# and CLI came as a great relief."

Microsoft Subnet Blog: "He seemed to think that much of the code in Linux belongs to Sun, and therefore will soon be owned by Oracle, who will turn around and use its so-called power to control Linux."

Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed. Or does it?

Now there's Ksplice, technology that applies patches directly into the running kernel. And thanks to their free Uptrack service it's free for users of Ubuntu!