Apache SSHD, a Java implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol is available in its first version 0.1.0.

Syntext Inc.'s Serna is a WYSIWYG XML editor with previous commercial licensing that should soon become open source.

Development at Amarok is moving fast. Version 2.1.1 has only just been released and already programmers are working on the features of version 2.2.

Hewlett-Packard and the Canonical Linux firm have announced certification of the Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition on HP's ProLiant G6 server family.

The Mozilla project has put out calls for its Extend Firefox 3.5 contest. You have until October 2 to enhance the Firefox 3.5 Web experience and possibly win a MacBook and some software licenses.

Online bookdealer Amazon has released parts of the source code for its youngest Kindle DX e-book device.

The GPL flight simulator Palomino from Jim Brooks has, with the integration of OSSIM and the 3D graphic tool OpenSceneGraph, become serious competition for Flightgear.

Ever since more and more Mono programmed applications such as Banshee, Gnome Do, and F Sport took over the Gnome desktop, the opposition to the .NET implementation has been getting more and more up in arms.

Google Mail, Calendar and Docs could be vulnerable. That's the argument an open letter to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt makes, thereby asking him to adopt the HTTPS standard for data transfers for these applications.

Wireshark 1.2 introduces a few "new and exciting" features for its network protocol analyzer software.