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OpenJDK security update: 7u40_b31was built with IcedTea 2.4.1
It’s Java security update time again, folks. The IcedTea team just released version 2.4.1 of their “build harness” (which builds the OpenJDK source code using Free Software tools and allows for other...
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New Flash player – security fix
Adobe released security updates of their Flash Player for all platforms. The latest Adobe security bulletin shows 11.2.202.356 as the new version for native Linux and 13.0.0.206 for the Chrome...
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October Flash Dance
Chromium and Pepper Flash: Chrome was updated last week (I failed to notice because of the crunch mode at work) with a new Flash from Adobe. I had just updated the Chromium package for Slackware last...
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Monthly Flash Player security updates
Pepper Flash for Chromium: Chrome was updated because of a Flash security bulletin from Adobe. The new Slackware package for chromium-pepperflash-plugin has version 16.0.0.257. Linux Flash for...
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Another Flash player plugin this week
I failed to mention this earlier because of the time I spent on KDE 5, but there was a new Flash from Adobe. following closely on last week’s security fix. I have packaged the usual suspects: the...
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April 15 Java security update: OpenJDK 7u79
A new release of IcedTea is available. Version 2.5.5 of the “Java build framework” will create OpenJDK 7 “Update 79 Build 14” (resulting in a Slackware package openjdk-7u79_b14). The release...
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More june ’15 security fixes for Adobe’s Flash web plugins
Here are new packages for the flashplayer-plugin and chromium-pepperflash-plugin. It’s “patch tuesday” and therefore the chances were fairly high that there would be a new Flash security bulletin…...
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July ’15 Security fixes for Adobe’s Flash web plugins (extra critical)
The recent hack of the “Hacking Team” -a company that makes money from creating spyware for repressive governments – has uncovered evidence that they have been exploiting a yet unknown security hole...
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Security updates: multilib and flash
Multilib A mountain of security fixes landed in Slackware this week. Many of these updated packages have a multilib equivalent, so today I have updated my multilib repository for Slackware releases...
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Alien Pastures switched to HTTPS
The “Alien Pastures” blog has been moved into a Virtual Machine (hence the short downtime yesterday) after its previous host hardware was replaced with a much beefier machine. This was a nice...
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Chromium 99 critical security fix, upgrade asap
I have uploaded new chromium 99 packages for Slackware. The chromium-ungoogled 99 packages are currently being built and will follow shortly. These new packages were triggered by a recent Google...
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