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Joseph Salisbury, developer at Canonical, officially announces the upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" will be based on latest Linux Kernel 3.18 RC2 release. As you know that, Linus announced the release of latest Kernel 3.18 RC2 release on last Sunday, so canonical team is planning to continue with 3.18 RC2 kernel as default kernel in the development of Ubuntu 15.04.

According to official announcement made by Ubuntu Kernel team, it is officially confirmed that the development of Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" has been started and uses Kernel 3.18 RC2 as default kernel. The Canonical and Ubuntu developers always try to include latest Kernel version during their stable release even in beta and RC release. Well currently 3.18 RC2 is the latest one so team is using it for the development of Ubuntu 15.04. Also, review recent Linux Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel world ?

About including Kernel 3.18 RC2, Joseph Salisbury state that, "The Vivid kernel has been opened and master-next rebased to the lastest v3.18-rc2 upstream kernel. We have witheld uploading to the archive until we've progressed to a later -rc candidate". We are hoping the the final and stable release of Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" might contain Kernel 3.19 or 3.20, all it depends on schedule release of Linux Kernel. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Ubuntu Touch development team announces that the developers facing lot of problems while dealing with bug fixes. According to them, this week is one of the unluck because they are not able to promote images of Ubuntu Touch as multiple issues arises at a time.

According to official announcement, the developers are working to fix the issues which creates a problem while promoting images. The team haven't released any new update for quite a while because internally they are resolving lot of issues at a time. Recently, developers had a problem related with recent images and currently they all are working on it.

The Ubuntu Touch developers state that "First our landings were stalled because of chroot problems in the archives - and when we were finally able to build and land everything that was required to unblock promotion, image #150 appeared to be completely un-bootable! The root cause has been identified (in the recent changes in user handling) with a work-around quickly hacked and released. Image #151 is now available in the -proposed channel and it should be usable once again!".

The team claims that Image #151 will be their first promotion candidate. On Monday, they will check how the test results for this and the subsequent images look like and try to announce a new level channel addition as soon as possible. On Monday, the community will switch to TRAINCON-0 mode which means risky and non-bugifx landings will have to be double-tested by QA specialists. You might also like to check out other Software News on our website.

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Canonical officially announces the release of Mozilla Firefox 32.0.3 browser in Ubuntu repository with minor fixes and improvements. This updated release primarily includes vulnerabilities fixes so that users of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS can use it without any problem.

According to official announcement, Firefox 32.0.3 browser comes with fixed security issues specially for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Some of the fraudulent security certificates are fixed in this release which might allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the internet.

One of the developer, Antoine Delignat Lavaud , with others discovered that NSS incorrectly handles parsing ASN.1 values which allows an attacker to use this issue to forge RSA certificates. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Ubuntu Kernel Team officially announces that upcoming Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" distro will be based on latest Linux Kernel 3.16 series. As you know that Linus Torvalds working on latest Linux Kernel 3.16 series and announces the release of Kernel 3.16 at particular time period. Currently, Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 was released, but Ubuntu developers are planning to introduce Linux Kernel 3.16 RC3 in Utopic Unicorn, but it is still unclear.

According to official announcement made by Joseph Salisbury, it is officially confirmed that upcoming Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" will support Linux Kernel 3.16 as default kernel. The developers are planning to update the ctk ppa (ppa:canoncial-kernel-team/ppa), so that users can upgrade their kernel to 3.16 series.

In his official statement, Joseph Salisbury, state that "We have rebased our Utopic kernel "unstable" branch to v3.16-rc3 and uploaded to our ckt ppa (ppa:canonical-kernel-team/ppa). I don't anticipate an official v3.16 based upload to the archive until further testing and baking has taken place".

We hope that the life cycle of release candidates of Linux Kernel 3.16 will be over before final release of Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" as you know that every Linux Kernel has atmost 8 to 10 release candidates and 3.16 Kernel series has already release 6 release candidates till yet. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Canonical officially announces the release of updated OpenJDK 7 in Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" repository. Earlier, Ubuntu maintainer found some of the vulnerabilities related with OpenJDK which they have fixed in this updated release and this is also available in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" repository.

According to official announcement, OpenJDK 7 finally arrives in Ubuntu repository and now available for Trusty Tahr. This release is updated with fixed security issues which earlier affects Ubuntu and derivatives. This update provides stability updates for OpenJDK 7 which is the software implementation of Java and its libraries.

This fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7 provides stability fixes for arm64 and ppc64el architectures. Well earlier lot of vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenJDK GRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could easily exploit these to cause a denial of service or express sensitive data over the network.

Apart from this, two vulnerabbilities were disclosed in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity along with one vulnerability related to availability which allows an attacker to exploit to cause a denial of service. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Canonical and Ubuntu developers officially decided to integrate local menus by default in upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 release. As you know that Ubuntu uses menus for all apps in top corner for all application. Well if some of you ever used Mac OS X then you might know that this concept is taken from Mac OS X but there are lot of Ubuntu users who prefer to use local menus instead of global menus.

According to one of the announcement at Unity, the local menus was already present in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and so does in upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 but with improved display appearance. You will see the local menus of any application until you close it. This release also set LIM as default in Ubuntu 15.04 release.

The commit message of this feature state that "Decorations, Panel: add menus for unfocused windows as well. Now the indicator-appmenu exports the menus for all windows, then it's up to us filter them based on their parent window and show on relevant place". You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Canonical and Ubuntu team officially updated the newer version of Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0 mail client in their repository, so that users of Ubuntu derivative can update their Thunderbird to newer version. The Ubuntu developers noticed some of the issues which are fixed in this release.

According to official announcement, Thunderbird 31.4.0 mail client is currently available for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Well this updated version primarily includes several security issue fixes which were reported in previous release. We have also discussed some of the issues which are discovered by developers in this release.

The Christian Holler and Patrick McManus discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird.

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that requests from navigator.sendBeacon() lack an origin header. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this conduct cross-site request forgery (XSRF) attacks. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

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Canonical officially announces the release date of upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 codenamed "Vivid Vervet". The Ubuntu 15.04 LTS will be released exactly siz months after on 23rd April, 2015. Currently lot of developers are working on Ubuntu Touch as it will be available soon for its Ubuntu phone users.

According to announcement made by Canonical, it is clear that the upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" will be quite interesting than 14.10 release. The upcoming releases of Ubuntu are might crucial for developers as they simutaneously working on Ubuntu Touch and Desktop flavors. The community is also planning to introduce Mir Display Server along with Unity Desktop in upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 release. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Well the Mir Display Server and Unity Desktop might not be possible in all 15.04 variants, but Canonical claims that they will try their best to incorporate these new features in all flavors but if they will fail than they will provide these updates in future releases. The schedule claims that the first alpha version will arrive on 18th December, second on 22nd January and after that the development will be freezes from 19th February onwards. You might also like to check other latest Software News on our website.

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From last few years, Canonical made huge success especially for making Ubuntu accessible for all end users. Lot of public and private entities around the globe are using Ubuntu for high performance robust solution and several other relevant tasks. Canonical trying to build more tools which will allow the various entities to get their product pre-loaded by OEMs which is fully enabled and compatible with hardware.

According to one of the announcement, it is revealed that over 20+ million users are now using Ubuntu Linux for their personal and professional usage. This demand comes from both enterprise and consumer segments where as lot of government entities are also using Open Source software. Ubuntu is one such operating system which is available for all devices including desktop, laptops, tablets and servers along with it also provides several free and paid applications.

There are lot of enterprises which are planning to become OEM of Ubuntu and its quite flexible to become of the OEM of Ubuntu like HP, Dell and Lenovo. For more details about certification from Ubuntu, you can check out the their FAQs which might help you in this scenario. You might also like to check out other latest Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Few months ago, Ubuntu and Canonical developers had decided that they will not provide 32-bit ISO Images in near future, but it seems that the developers still considering to provide 32-bit ISO Images until decision has been made regarding this. The support for 32-bit images will be continue for next two years.

According to official announcement at Online Ubuntu Summit, it is officially confirmed that the upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 LTS flavor for desktop, server abd cloud will be the last release which will be available in 32-bit ISO Image. According to over 580 surveys conducted by Ubuntu developers, it was confirmed that the lot of users doesn't want 32-bit ISO Images and it also consumes lot of data over the download servers.

Apart from Ubuntu and its derivatives, there are several other distros which already stops providing 32-bit ISO Images for their respective distros. Ubuntu community try to communicate with its users so that they won't get disappointed later on. The main website claims that less than 20% users download and install 32-bit Ubuntu ISO Images and this number is decreasing according to the future releases. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Ubuntu developers still working on Unity 8 and claiming that it will going to introduce new and advanced features which were not present in Unity 7. Currently, Unity 8 won't ready for regular users but only available for developers. As you know that Unity will be the desktop environment supported by Ubuntu derivatives only and also allows its users to upgrade their Unity desktop from Unity 7 to Unity 8.

According to official announcement by Will Cooke, it is officially confirmed that the apps, UI tweaks and other things make the application more secure and stable which will be directly apply to desktop as well. The community is planning to make a single converged operating system ready for public use by Ubuntu 16.04 release.

Unity 8 desktop is already implemented in Ubuntu Touch operating system, which is designed for Ubuntu Phones and Ubuntu Tablets. The developers are saying that it will take little time before they release Unity version for desktop users because they are putting lot of efforts in automating the features of Unity 8 for desktop users.

The upcoming new Ubuntu Desktop going to provides applications decoupled from OS updates, application isolation and full SDK for writing Ubuntu apps. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.

Canonical officially announces the release of Mozilla Firefox 35 Web Browser update for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 along with other variants including Kubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Xubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Lubuntu 14.10, 14.04 and Linux Mint 17. All you have to do is to update your system and it will automatically update the Firefox version to Firefox 35.

With the new version update of Firefox, the Ubuntu team already pushed this updated firefox version to repositories of all Ubuntu variants, so users can directly get the updated version of Firefox on their system. The Bobby Holley discovered some DOM objects with certain properties can bypass XrayWrappers in some circumstances.

The new Firefox 35 web browser is primarily includes few improvements along with minor security fixes. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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