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Thunderbird 3.0.4 Beta
Mozilla has released a beta of Tunderbird 3.0.4 – the final release is expected on the 30th March 2010
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Thunderbird_3.0.4
Firefox 3.6.2
Mozilla yesterday released a beta version of the Firefox 3.6 browser to fix several stability and security issues.
Firefox 3.6.2 has been released to Mozilla’s beta tester community, and includes several bug fixes such as crashes when using Adobe’s ClickMap add-on. Other problems reported by some users, such as there being no prompt to update extensions [...]
Apple Safari 4.0.5
Apple has released Safari 4.0.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities in ColorSync, ImageIO, PubSub, Safari, and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple article HT4070 and upgrade to Safari 4.0.5 to help mitigate [...]
More Cloud Testing Agents added
To meet demand we’ve added more agents to our testing pool – let us worry about providing and looking after the service, letting you get on with what you do best – developing and running websites.
Windows updates applied to Cloud Testing Agents
The current release of Windows updates have been applied to all of the Cloud Testing Agents – see the Updates section.
Why run your own testing infrastructure when we can run it for you from the cloud?
Japanese Language installed onto Cloud Testing agents
In preparation for our new joint venture in Japan – Cloud Testing Japan (www.cloudtesting.jp), we have updated all of our agents (servers that run your tests for you) with Japanese.
Firefox 2.0 drops off the radar
We keep an active check on the browsers that our visitors use, mainly for interest, but today is the first day that there have been no visitors at all using Firefox 2.0.
We guess that in general if you’ve chosen Firefox, you keep up to date (assuming all your favorite add-ins work in the new version).
We [...]
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers’ Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced scripting functionality that lets
site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread to reduce the performance hit on Firefox’s user interface. The fixes are already in the 3.6 release.
Cloud [...]
MySQL Community Server 5.1.44
MySQL Community Server 5.1.44, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. MySQL 5.1.44 is recommended for use on production systems.
For an overview of what’s new in MySQL 5.1, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html
For information on installing MySQL 5.1.44 on new servers or upgrading to MySQL 5.1.44 from previous MySQL releases, [...]
Windows and IE 6, 7 & 8 updated with security patches.
Updates for Windows have been applied to all Cloud Testing Agents – see the Updates section for more details.
