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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. RC? by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Obviously delaying the release until the security holes are fixed is the only course of action.

    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?

    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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  2. Good for Them by MBCook · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is good to see. Not only are they doing this for security, but this means it won't have too many bugs when it's released (which doesn't seem to be the case with alot of software these days).

    In other news, uppon reading this, Microsoft declared a company wide day of laughing, stating "...this is the most rediculus strategy we've ever seen! Why if we did this, we'd still be working on DOS 4 or 5." Later in the conversation, the spokesperson asked to take back that statement and said if we printed it the BSA would come after us for liscenses.

    Gotta go, there is a knock on the door...

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    1. Re:Good for Them by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

      Kudos to the KDE team for making sure that the product is fully baked before release.!

      On the contrary, MS makes sure that their products are fully toasted after release.