18th June 2004

by Derek Kite
 

This Week...

Large image viewing improved. More integration between Kaddressbook and kopete. Continued OASIS file format loading and saving work in KOffice. XMLSerializer merged from Safari. KdeTv adds deinterlacing. New Konqueror RSS feed plugin.
Microsoft acts like a 'drug-dealer practice' for offering the operational system Windows to some governments and cities for digital inclusion programs. 'This is a trojan horse, a form of securing critical mass to continue constraining the country'. They are now acting as thugs by pursuing Sergio Amadeu, head of the agency responsible for spreading free software within the Brazilian government with a libel action for saying the above. Grow up Microsoft. Call off your dogs. Lawrence Lessig's blog has more information.


For those who would like to follow specific projects or modules on the kde-cvs, but don't want to be overwhelmed by the 2000 or so messages each week, try out www.kstuff.org. You can select which modules you want to see.

A message on kde-devel from our fearless release dude, Stephan Kulow regarding QT requirements:
I'd like to life the Qt requirement of the configures to check for 3.3 instead of 3.2. People using Qt 3.2 report different bugs than those running Qt 3.3, so it makes sense to limit this to one set.

So if you're still running Qt 3.2 on your development machine, you can now schedule a recompilation in the next couple of days.
Security is a process, or so they say. How does the KDE process work when it comes to security? There was an interesting interchange that was started by this commit by Zack Rusin. Dirk Mueller noted curtly:
Grr. The safari code introduces two security bugs. Thanks.
After a little back and forth, Zack explained why that isn't the case.
You are not vulnerable. The vulnerability comes from the wrong detection of redirects which we do fine in asynchronous case. Synchronous loads are not handled at all and they're the only ones that actually would load the file before checking the url.

(if you want to check it yourself, the adirsory is here: http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ns/ ) I'm not aware of any other problems.
Waldo Bastian checked further and made this comment:
We still do some basic checking at KIO level: kio (KIOJob): TransferJob::slotRedirection(file:/etc/passwd) kio (KIOJob): WARNING: TransferJob: Redirection from http://localhost/redir.php to file:/etc/passwd REJECTED! kio (KIOJob): error 15 file:/etc/passwd

Statistics

Commits 2826 by 217 developers, 228451 lines modified, 888 new files
Open Bugs 6741
Open Wishes 6572
Bugs Opened 296 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed 271 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module Commits
kde-i18n
 
825
kdeextragear-1
 
190
kdeextragear-2
 
186
kdenetwork
 
164
kdepim
 
159
kdelibs
 
130
kdeedu
 
124
koffice
 
124
kdebase
 
117
kdenonbeta
 
109
Lines Developer Commits
883
 
Stephan Binner
 
147
7833
 
Pedro Morais
 
105
2147
 
David Faure
 
85
4318
 
Erik Kj
 
70
21462
 
Nick Shaforostoff
 
68
1917
 
Marek Laane
 
67
782
 
Mark Kretschmann
 
63
1026
 
Max Howell
 
62
763
 
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
 
60
2214
 
Gilles Caulier
 
58

Internationalization (i18n) Status

Language Percentage Complete
Estonian (et)
 
100%
Danish (da)
 
99.67%
Swedish (sv)
 
99.19%
Tamil (ta)
 
98.24%
British English (en_GB)
 
95.17%
Portuguese (pt)
 
94.2%
Spanish (es)
 
91.5%
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
 
88.74%
Dutch (nl)
 
88.12%
Italian (it)
 
84.85%

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