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Softpedia: "Puppy Linux 'Slacko' 5.3.1 is a bug-fix release of the previous version. It is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.37.6 compiled with Aufs, and layered filesystem support."

The Document Foundation: "LibreOffice 3.4.3 fixes the most-important bugs identified by users in the previous version, and can be deployed for production needs by most enterprises."

Drupal Watchdog: "With the longest release cycle of any major Drupal release to date, Drupal 7 contains more new features and architectural changes than any previous version"

Recently I saw some weirdness in an existing application when I upgraded a PECL module that the application depended on.

To figure out if that really was the problem, I wanted to downgrade the module to its previous version.

There is no opposite command to "upgrade" but you can instruct pecl to install a specific version of a module, using the -f switch to force pecl to overwrite newer modules.

Downgrading Pecl_OAuth

Clementine

APC mag: "Since the release of its previous version in May 2009, at least 30 additional flash chip families and half a dozen variants for each family are now being supported by Flashrom."

IT News Today: "Right on schedule, the newest iteration of the popular KDE distribution “Kubuntu” has reached version 9.10 and was unleashed into the wild last week.

When I checked out the previous version (9.04) I found it to be the worst Kubuntu release since the distribution’s inception."

Benjamin Eberlei has posted about some work he's done on a plugin for the NetBeans IDE to integrate support for the PHP_CodeSniffer PEAR package's abilities.

Brandon Savage has posted his latest part of his "Peer Review" series.

He takesa step back and looks at abstraction again, this time incorporating some of the suggestions other members of the PHP community gave based on the previous version.

The H Open: "It fixes a number of bugs in the previous version and a potential security vulnerability, but does not add any new functionality."