Tag Archive for 'Open Source'

K2 Release Candidate 6

K2 Release Candidate 6 has been released. This release of K2 is fully compatible with WordPress 2.5.

I will be using K2 release candidate 6 as a base for Unwakeable 1.5. You can expect to see the release of Unwakeable 1.5 later on this week. You can download it from the official Unwakeable page.

Head on over to the K2 release candidate 6 announcement post for more details on the latest K2.

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Unwakeable Theme And WordPress 2.5

WordPress 2.5 was released on March 29th. The current version of Unwakeable (version 1.2.1) doesn’t play so well with WordPress 2.5. The only thing that’s really broken is the dashboard, which is a pretty big thing to have broken.

It seems there’s a known issue with K2 themes and the WordPress 2.5 dashboard, as explained in the K2 support forums. There’s supposedly a fix for this issue, but I could not get it to work fully. The fix works fine as long as you have K2 sidebar modules disabled from the theme options page.

Unwakeable 1.2.1 is so far broken and outdated I’m not even going to make an attempt at fixing it for WordPress 2.5. Instead, I’m working on Unwakeable 1.5, which is based off K2 Release Candidate 5. Unwakeable 1.5 is almost finished and should be up for download within a week, if not sooner.

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K2 Release Candidate 5

K2 release candidate 3 was released a little over four months ago. Today, as I was going through all my feeds, I saw there were some commits to the K2 SVN. The log for one of the commits stated that the version for K2 has been bumped up to release candidate 5. Here’s a piece from the commit:

Author: Heilemann
Date: Mon Feb 25 22:57:53 2008
New Revision: 636

Modified:
trunk/style.css

Log:
Upped version to RC5. Preparing release.


This is rather exciting for me, especially the “preparing release” portion of that. I’m hoping “preparing release” means they’re getting ready to drop K2 1.0 as opposed to getting ready to release a download for K2 release candidate 5. As you probably know, Unwakeable is based on K2. Once K2 1.0 is out, I’ll start building Unwakeable 2.0.

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WordPress 2.3.3 Security Release

WordPress version 2.3.3 has been released. This release, like the previous one, addresses an urgent security vulnerability that was found in the WordPress XML-RPC implementation. The flaw could allow any valid user on your blog to edit posts made by other users on your blog.

WordPress 2.3.3 also fixes some other minor bugs. If you don’t care about those minor bug fixes and just want to patch your blog against the XML-RPC vulnerability, you can download a fixed copy of xmlrpc.php and copy it to your WordPress installation directory, replacing the existing xmlrpc.php file.

You’re probably better off just downloading WordPress 2.3.3 and doing the full upgrade.

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WordPress 2.3.2 Urgent Security Release

The WordPress folks have released WordPress 2.3.2, describing it as an urgent security release. This latest version fixes a bug that can be exploited to display your draft posts. Some changes have also been made to prevent certain error messages from giving away more information about your database than they need to. I would strongly advise that WordPress users install 2.3.2 ASAP.

WordPress 2.3.2 includes a new feature to allow you to customize the error page that’s displayed when WordPress can’t connect to your database. You can see the full list of changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, you can also see which bugs are fixed in WordPress 2.3.2.

Head over to the 2.3.2 announcement post on the Dev Blog for the full story on WordPress 2.3.2. If you don’t care about any of that, you can just head straight to the download.

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How To: Cisco VPN Client On Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

IMPORTANT UPDATE, SEE BELOW

So, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn beta about 2 months ago. I installed it on my notebook and one of my workstations, both of which had Windows installed previously. I’m not dual booting on those machine, they’re 100% Ubuntu now.

After getting everything setup and running nicely, I realized I had no way of connecting to the Cisco PIX VPN we have at work. This is really important for me to be able to do, my job depends on it. I immediately went to Google and started searching. Turns out a nice fellow named Alexander Griesser has created a patch for the Cisco VPN client. The most recent CIsco VPN client for linux won’t compile with kernels 2.6.19 or newer. There’s really not much of a difference between his instructions and this how-to. However, I’m including more detailed instructions for those who may not be familiar with compiling software on Linux.

Here’s the steps I took to get the Cisco VPN Client to work under Unbutu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Note: A $ at the beginning of a line signifies a command to be run from the terminal.

  1. Download vpnclient-linux-4.8.00.0490-k9.tar.gz (mirror) to your home directory.
  2. Open a terminal window and untar the vpnclient with the following command:
    $ tar xzf vpnclient-linux-4.8.00.0490-k9.tar.gz
    This will create a new folder called vpnclient in your home directory. Leave the terminal window open, you’ll need it later.
  3. Download the patch (mirror) and save it to the vpnclient folder that was created in step 2.
  4. Go back to your terminal window and move into the vpnclient folder:
    $ cd vpnclient/
  5. Now patch the Cisco VPN source with this command:
    $ patch < vpnclient-linux-2.6.22.diff
  6. Next we actually build the Cisco VPN client, issue this command:
    $ sudo ./vpn_install
    Just hit enter for everything it asks you, the defaults are all OK. You may see lots of warnings, but those are OK.
  7. The VPN client is installed, now we need to start it:
    $ sudo /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start
  8. Place your .pcf configuration files in /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles/
  9. If your .pcf file is called myVPN.pcf, you’ll connect to the VPN with the following command:
    $ sudo vpnclient connect myVPN


That’s it! You should now be able to connect to your Cisco VPN with the official Cisco VPN client on Linux. This will probably work on pretty much any linux setup, not just Ubuntu.

UPDATE (8/18/2007):
Alexander Griesser released a new patch that works with kernel versions 2.6.22 and greater. The new patch is backwards compatible, so it also works with older kernels as well, such as 2.6.10 and 2.6.21. All the download links above point to the newest release of the patch. I’ll continue to update this how-to as he releases new patches.

UPDATE (10/04/2007):
Cisco has finally released a new version of their vpn client for Linux. This new version compiles on all the new 2.6.xx kernels without the need for patching! You can download it from Alexander’s site or you can get it right here.

UPDATE (12/29/2007): Alexander Griesser has a new project page for his Cisco VPN client patches. It contains basic usage information and will most likely always have the latest and greatest patch available for download. In addition to that, Alexander has a new patch to make version 4.8.01.0640-k9 of the Cisco VPN Client compile on 64bit systems. Again, you can download the latest Cisco VPN Client for linux from the following link:
http://www.longren.org/files/vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.01.0640-k9.tar.gz

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