To fix a security vulnerability in the previous release, Firefox developers have issued an early follow-up version 3.6.2 for immediate implementation.

Google's online security teams has come out with a free security scanner for web apps, named Skipfish.

Task Coach, an open source program for managing todo lists, is available in version 1.0.0.

Ken Smith from the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the released version 7.3 for download. The new FreeBSD comes with updated ZFS and a re-worked bootloader.

Users commonly on the Internet often maintain many online contacts. Mozilla now wants to help manage these contacts with a special Firefox addon.

Just missing the beta deadline, Ubuntu has today placed the version 10.04 of the new Music Store online for testing.

Parted Magic, a Live Linux with programs for partitioning and data rescue, is available in version 4.9. Apart from bug fixes, it includes a few new features.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian informed all Novell customers per email on March 20 that the buyout proposal from Elliott Associates was rejected in that it undervalued the company.

Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!

The Swiss federal agency known as Schweizerische Fachstelle für Informationstechnologien (SFIB) or Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement (CTIE) has studied the user licenses for Microsoft products in Swiss schools. The result is a warning against the licensing and a recommendation to use open source products.