Microsoft published a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable. Users who have installed SP2 are not vulnerable to the flaw.

A new "tour" is available at the SkyOS homepage, showing off what will be available in SkyOS 5.0. Included are many screenshots. This is a good summary of everything that has been done with SkyOS over the past year. In other news Developer Studio, GCC 3.4.0, Binutils 2.15, Make, Python, Autoconf, and many other development tools are new available for SkyOS, as well as Blender3D. The SkyOS community has been busy as well, developing such applications as Personal Organizer (e-mail client/organizer), SkIRC, AFTP, and a few others.

Finally, the much anticipated version 1.0 of Firefox are out on its first preview. Read more from here and proceed to download. Also, new versions of Mozilla suite, Thunderbird were posted. Here's another article too: How to migrate from Ximian Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird.

It has not been announced on Linare.com, but it appears that Linare Linux 2.0 has been uploaded to Ibiblio.org and its mirrors, and is available for free download. We will post a review of Linare PRO soon.

Lycoris, today announced that it has commenced shipping Desktop/LX 1.4 to customers after a brief delay in the original release schedule. It is available in Personal, Deluxe and PowerPak editions.

Red Hat's Havoc Pennington announced the "Stateless Linux" project for Fedora, an interesting new philosophy as to how software should be developed/behave. Here is the PDF with all the details.