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Just last Thursday, I wrote a post proclaiming my undying love for how quickly open source projects tend to right themselves when sailing the choppy waters of software vulnerabilities. This time around, a vulnerability had been spotted in Firefox, affecting 3.x releases on all platforms. The fix was scheduled for release sometime this week, in the browser's 3.0.8 version.

Firefox 3.0.8 made an early arrival, however, and was officially released Friday afternoon (at 3:45 PST). For those keeping score, this was roughly two days after one of the vulnerabilities it patches was discovered.

Via Linux Weekly News comes the tale of Fedora 10's recent troubles with D-Bus. Fedora recently issued a security update for D-Bus which broke a number of applications on generic Fedora systems. One of the areas affected was PackageKit -- essentially leaving those accustomed to updating their systems with the Fedora GUI tools unable to do so in this manner.

The fix detailed by Paul Frields (issuing the command su -c 'yum update' in a terminal window) is straightforward, but it has the Fedora community talking about how to minimize and handle update hiccups in the future.