Samba team releases version 4 alpha
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After years of effort, programmers work to bring Active Directory support to the open-source file-sharing software.
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Ilia Alshanetsky has noted that the latest release canidate for the PHP 5.2.x series, PHP 5.2.5RC1, is now available for download.   This RC includes a fair number of fixes since our last release and predominantly works on improving the stability of the 5.2 tree as well as including a small number of minor security fixes. I'd like to ask everyone to test this release against your code and setups, we are aiming for a quick release cycle and user feedback is critical for a successful release.   You can download this new edition directly from here (no Windows builds yet).
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Travis Swicegood has made a new release of the successor to the PEAR RunTest package for PEAR2 - the new PHPT.    Since this is usable and PEAR2 is still being worked out, I've decided to release this as a standalone package for the time being with the intent of bundling it with Pyrus or including it directly in PEAR2 when PEAR2 is realized.   This provides the majority of the functionality provided by PEAR's pear run-tests command via its own phpt command and it can even provide pear style output.    Examples of its use are included as well as the method to download this latest version (via a PEAR channel, of course) or through the package's web page. Issues found with the software can be posted to the project's Google code page.
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WikyBlog is a scalable CMS/Groupware application with an AJAX enhanced tabbed interface enabling users to view/edit multiple files within the same page.   Version 1.4 adds the Wanted Pages, What Links Here, Orphaned Files and Dead-End Files special pages. Automated tasks have also been introduced to maintain database integrity and maintain Trash. A number of other improvements and bug fixes have also been made.  WikyBlog Home:   http://www.wikyblog.com     Get WikyBlog:   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148518&package_id=163821     WikyBlog Features:   http://www.wikyblog.com/Help/en/WikyBlog/Features
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InfoWorld - Developers of open-source Samba software will find their work a little easier thanks to an agreement with Microsoft, signed Thursday, that will give them access to previously secret data on how the Windows operating system works.
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No royalties to pay in interop deal? The Samba team has reached an agreement with Microsoft, with the software giant agreeing to disclose technical and legal information to the software libre project. Samba is by far the most widely-used software stack that allows non-Microsoft computer to talk to Windows machines, and use proprietary Microsoft network services.â¦
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Latest PECL Releases:pecl_http 1.5.0pecl_http 1.5.1swish 0.2.0APC 3.0.13zip 1.8.6pecl_http 1.5.2hidef 0.1.0
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_LDAP 1.1.0a2pearweb_gopear 1.0.3HTML_TagCloud 0.1.3Console_GetoptPlus 1.0.0RC1Crypt_GPG 0.4.0LiveUser 0.16.13
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Antony Dovgal has pointed out the updated packages that have been released to the snaps.php.net website by Derick Rethans.   He also includes a list of things that will be included in this upcoming release like:   Namespaces Late static binding Accessing static members through $foo::myFunc() Improved OpenSSL extension PCRE 7.4   Grab your copy of these latest snapshots from the snaps website and get to testing them on your system to see what happens before the release.
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TechWeb - One of the early adopters of GPL 3 will be the Samba Server project, which supplies file translation code between Linux and Windows.
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Latest PECL Releases:pecl_http 1.4.0oci8 1.2.3cairo_wrapper 0.2.2pecl_http 1.4.1zip 1.8.5
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As mentioned by Derick Rethans on his blog today, there's some new versions of several (five) of the components in the next version of the eZ Components framework:   In the just released alpha versions you can find new features, such as better support for OpenID, a Database backend for OpenID authentication, a validating method for e-mail addresses, SMTP authentication support for DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, NTLM and LOGIN and encoding support for e-mail headers.   He also mentions other goodies like tree structure handling and functionality to support WebDav connections. Check out their roadmap to get a better idea of what's to come.
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OK, we had an extended breather from our last look at BIND's zone file pri.example.org. It's time to finish up and get a sense of what these records mean. To go off-topic a little, recently, I had the task of setting up two OpenLDAP servers and putting together a test environment for a project with several developers and several applications including some LAMP applications. Without a working knowledge of DNS, the project would have gone amuck.
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Apache httpd 2.0.52 was released     on 28th September 2004. This release addresses a recent security     issue in Apache httpd 2.0.51
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A distributed multi-protocol load testing tool.
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Following up on yesterday's release of PHP 5.2.0 RC4 from Ilia, Edin Kadribasic has posted the corresponding Windows builds.   This build is featuring the new installer contributed by John Mertic so testing it before the final release would be appreciated.   He's linked to various packages:  php-5.2.0RC4-Win32.zip php-5.2.0RC4-win32-installer.msi pecl-5.2.0RC4-Win32.zip php-debug-pack-5.2.0RC4-Win32.zip
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Ziff Davis - Security sources announce four mostly unrelated enterprise vulnerabilities in Cisco Unity, Cisco Guard, Veritas' Backup Exec, and Samba, the Windows file-sharing utility for Linux.