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- NetBSD 6.1.2 released: The second security/bug-fix release for NetBSD 6.1 is now available with one security fix and fixes for KVM shutdown, USB device enumeration, networking with npf, udf file systems and pthreads. There’s also updated timezone data, a corrected regression for some X apps and a fix for some Emacs 24 crashes.
- A Lua JVM?: An intriguing experiment has appeared in the form of luje, a “toy” Java virtual machine written in Lua. It on-the-fly compiles the Java byte code into Lua scripts and then runs them with LuaJIT. “Right now it excels at anything which involves tight loops and float or doubles in local variables” say the developer, David Given, noting it can beat the Hotspot/JIT in those cases, but it does badly with longs and many other things. The code is a 0.1 release, is fragile and incompletly implemented, but if interesting JIT tricks are your thing, this is one to look at.
- Crunch time for Meego/Symbian: It looks like the end for Nokia’s support of Meego and Symbian support of devices through the company’s store is coming with the blocking of new app publication from 1 January 2014.
- MariaDB’s heading to Debian: Colin Charles passes on the news that Debian’s MySQL package team have a plan for MariaDB 5.5, that it’s been uploaded to Debian unstable and should appear in unstable in due course.
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