Rarely does anything have a defined turning point in its history, a single day where people can point and say that was the day everything changed.
For OpenSSL, that day was April 7, 2014, the day that Heartbleed became part of the security lexicon. Heartbleed was a critical vulnerability in the venerable crypto library. OpenSSL is everywhere, in tens of thousands of commercial and homespun software projects. And so too, as of last April, was Heartbleed, an Internet-wide bug that leaked enough memory that a determined hacker could piece together anything from credentials to encryption keys.
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The 11th release of OpenStack is available for download today, and the event is being billed as “a turning point” for the open source project with contributions from nearly 1,500 developers and 169 organizations worldwide. Indeed, it’s only been a few short years since there was early 
Simplicity Linux, a Linux distribution based on LXPup and that uses the LXDE desktop, has been upgraded to version 15.4 and is now available for download and testing.
Canonical has announced that a few vulnerabilities were found in the Linux kernel packages, affecting the kernel for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicon) operating system, and they have been corrected.