The Debian Installer
team
is proud to announce the second beta release of the installer
for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny.

Tenable Network Security has released version 3.2.1 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This point release includes a variety of small bug fixes as well as a new report filtering interface for the Nessus client. This blog entry will discuss the new Nessus features, bug fixes and reporting filters for the Nessus Client.

Nessus Release Notes

New features

BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a "transparent forensic logging bridge".

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

Changes:

The Debian Installer
team
is proud to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Installer.

This is the first release since Etch and the whole team has been hard
at work during the past 11 months to make this release full of new
features and bugfixes.

We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer,
so please try it.

Improvements in this release of the installer

A comprehensive changelog of what has changed since the release of Etch is
available
on the wiki.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released today - congratulations to all Debian Developers and the release team.

Read the press release here.

This is already three days old news: Debian etch (4.0) RC2 is out there. To see the release schedule and what has to happen until the final Debian 4.0 comes out to the wild, check this. The nicest thing (for me, it is) of this release is this:

With the lack of time, here's a big bunch of random stuff you might be interested of: