Version 1.3 of dwdiff, a free front-end for the Unix diff program has just been released and is now licensed under the GPLv3.

As announced, Mozilla has released another beta of Firefox 3, which is scheduled to go final next year, just in time for Christmas.

The Linux Foundation is hosting a Linux Developer Symposium in Peking February 19 and 20 2008. The event partner is the China OSS Promotion Union (COPU).

Version 0.4.0 of libvirt, a free library for administration of virtualized operating systems has just been released.

The developers of the Samba 4 version have released the second alpha version three months after the initial alpha.

Version 4.2 of the miniscule (50MB) DSL (Damn Small Linux) distribution has just been released.

After completing the community beta phase, SugarCRM has now released Version 5.0 of its Open Source CRM as a commercial package.

Version 1.0.0 of the free Stress program has just been released. The test tool generates configurable loads for the CPU, memory, I/O and drives of Posix-compatible systems.

Shortly after a revision of the current 5 branch of the Centos release, the Red Hat Enterprise source-based distribution has now updated the older release to version 4.6.

Lars Knoll is to become part of the Trolltech management team. As Vice President of Engineering, he will lead the developer teams in Norway, Germany and Australia.