WordPress 3.0.1 has been released,This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues.

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The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 3.0) is available.

Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.

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The 1.3 final version of PrestaShop is considered as being the most accomplished, stable and professional published until now. Many optimizations and fixes have been made to the project to maximize its performance and its international accessibility, including many suggestions and recommendations from the Open-Source community. PrestaShop is now published in three languages: English, Spanish and French.

In terms of technical sophistication, the MySQL performances have been optimized, as well as its template engine based on Smarty. Significant corrections have been made to the prices and taxes system.
Alongside these improvements, a number of important new features have been added to the solution, bringing to more than 200 the number of technical, functional and graphical possibilities of a PrestaShop based e-shop. In addition to these features, extensions are available on the official marketplace of PrestaShop, PrestaStore, whose catalog now offers nearly 700 modules and themes.
“Our goal is to continuously enrich PrestaShop to provide online merchants with an e-commerce software ever more complete, functional and suitable to their needs, while respecting their constraints. PrestaShop needs to be a modular and flexible solution to suit all countries and all activities.” says Igor Schlumberger, PrestaShop co-founder.

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PrestaShop is a professional e-Commerce shopping cart software

The final 1.3 version of PrestaShop is getting closer and closer! This v.1.3 RC3 version, third “release candidate”, is aimed at identifying the last bugs present in PrestaShop before the publication of the 1.3 final version.

Among the modifications made since last week, we can mention:
- Corrections made on the quick access links in the Back Office
- Deleted an SQL error on tags filter on the Admintags page in the Back-Office
- Bug fixed about the thumbnails generation (pictures)
- Accepted currencies verification in the Moneybookers module
- Fixed the “Mailalert” module – emails sending
- The Hipay module is now compatible with multi-currencies

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The English version of Expo 2010 Shanghai Online was launched on Jan. 1st, 2010.

The URL – http://en.expo.cn/

Expo 2010 Shanghai Official Website -http://en.expo2010.cn/

BuddyPress 1.1.3 has been released.
This release fixes a number of issues with the 1.1 release of BuddyPress.

BuddyPress bringes social networking to WordPress MU sites and has features like extended profile`s, private messaging, friendslist, groups, activity streams (lifestream), personal blogs, status updates and photoalbums.

Changelog

• Fixed bug where joining a group via AJAX would fail to record in activity streams.
• Fixed bug with activation email when a site admin adds a user through the WordPress dashboard.
• Fixed bug where some plugins would break the activity stream formatting.
• Fixed bug where demotion of a member in a group would fail.
• Fixed bug where non-working delete links for activity stream items would show on friends activity stream.
• Fixed bug where some users could not delete their accounts, even if a site admin had turned the setting on.
• Fixed display issue with RSS feed link on user profiles.
• Fixed issues with duplicate CSS ID’s on activity stream items.

Download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.1.3.zip

VirtualBox is a x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use and is available under the GPL license.

The following major new features were added:

• Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one host to another (see the manual for more information)
• VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well (“branched snapshots”; see the manual for more information)
• 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion (see the manual for more information)
• More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to an arbitrary IDE controller, and there can be more than one such drive (the manual for more information)
• The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
• Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
• Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
• Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface; see the manual for more information)
• Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net; see the manual for more information)

Downloads can be found at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Windows 8 will be with us in 2012, according to Microsoft roadmaps apparently revealed at last week’s Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC).

Although Microsoft has yet to officially discuss plans for Windows 8, a 2012 release would be consistent with previous Microsoft pledges to release a new desktop operating system every three years. Windows 7 was released a month ago.

The latest speculation suggesting a 2012 release has been credited to Microsoft Kitchen, a blog with the tagline “Serving up some seriously tasty Microsoft.”

Despite showing roadmaps apparently picked up at PDC, the blog has little else to reveal about Windows 8.

However, a Microsoft employee may have inadvertently spilled the beans on one key Windows 8 feature last month.

Microsoft employee Robert Morgan appeared to detail the software giant’s plans to make a 128-bit version of Windows 8, and even Windows 9, on LinkedIn, where he listed his job as ‘senior research and development’. His profile, which has now been removed from the business networking site, said Morgan was “working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects”.

It went on to reveal that his R&D projects included: “128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan”. He’s also responsible for “forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM”.

Microsoft is also looking for employees to help shape Windows 8, according to reports online. Neowin.net spotted the vacancy for a Windows 7 software engineer on Microsoft’s site.

“We just finished up work on Windows 7, and are pushing forth on Windows 8 planning and preparation,” said the blurb in the job ad, which was replicated on the CodenameWindows website.

“As part of this team, you will help shape Windows 8. Components of our code include a core agent that runs as an NT service, an API layer and a UI application,” added the advert. (Via PC Advisor)

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.