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KDE 3.1 Delayed - For A Very Good Reason

Posted by timothy on from the measuring-twice dept.

woobieman29 writes "KDE.news reported on Saturday that the KDE 3.1 release that was scheduled for this week has been delayed until early January. This is happening due to some security concerns that have arisen during a security audit of the 3.1 CVS tree. Kudos to the KDE team for making sure that the product is fully baked before release.!"

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  1. Re:RC? by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Since the betas and RC are now going to be exposed to the world for longer, are the security holes going to be disclosed so that we can take some action to secure our systems that are running these pre-release builds?

    I'm not going to karma whore and give you links to the holes themselves, but this is a good place to start. They disclose holes as they happen; it's open source. Systems that choose to run thes pre-release builds accept such risks anyways.

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