Neben dem monatlich veröffentlichten Windows Catalyst Treiber-Update hat AMD nun auch aktualisierte Linux-Treiber zum Download bereitgestellt.
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Display Device property page enhancement
OpenGL support for Compositing managers
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
RedFlag DT 6.0 sp2 production support
RedFlag DT 7.0 support (early look)
SLED and SLES 11 support (early look)
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
- samples are provided within the SDK
The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Display Device property page enhancement
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux enables users to configure new display settings within the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.
HDTV mode support (720p, 1080i, 1080p, and custom) for digital displays
Color temperature controls for digital displays
Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast color controls for digital displays
Digital display controls (Overscan support, HDMI settings, DVI settings)
OpenGL support for Compositing managers
Added support for the use of OpenGL clients under compositing environments such as compiz and kwin as found in Ubuntu and SuSE
Die Entwickler der Mozilla Foundation haben mit der Version 3.0.8 für den im Juni 2008 veröffentlichten Firefox 3 Webbrowser ein Update zum Download bereitgestellt, das zwei kritische Sicherheitslücken schließt.
Firefox 3.0.8 fixes two critical security issues found in Firefox 3.0.7:
GPU-Z von techPowerUp ist in der Version 0.3.3 erhältlich. GPU-Z liefert technische Informationen zu Grafikkarten, konzentriert sich dabei vor allem auf Produkte von AMD/ATI, NVIDIA und Intel.
Revision History 0.3.3
Added support for RV740 (HD 4750, HD 4770) and RV790 (HD 4890)
Der kostenlose Open-Source E-Mail Client Mozilla Thunderbird ist in einer neuen Version 2.0.0.21 erschienen. Folgende Änderungen wurden implementiert:
Freigabedatum: 18. März 2009 Sicherheitsupdates: Die folgenden Sicherheitslücken wurden geschlossen.
MFSA 2009-10 Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards MFSA 2009-09 XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect MFSA 2009-07 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Realtek hat mit der Version 2.19 ein neues Treiberpaket für seine High Definition Audio-Codecs veröffentlicht. HDA-Soundchips aus Realteks ALC88x Serie sind z.B. auf vielen AM2, aktuellen AM2+ und neuen AM3 Mainboards anzutreffen und bieten 8-Kanal High Definition Sound.
History: -------- Driver Package R2.19 Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista/WinXP/Win2000/Win2003 . 1. Vista WHQL Supporting: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262,ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887 2. Windows 2000/XP WHQL Supporting: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267,ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887 3. HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices 4. OS Supporting: Microsoft WindowsXP, Widnows2000, Vista, Windows7 x86/x64 5. Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1.0a(5013) 6. Add/Fix 1.) Driver : 1. Customizations. 2.) Package : 1. Fix upgraded warning dialog for Small VGA mode . 2. Add failed run installation by count .
ATI hat sein CATALYST Grafikkarten- und Chipsatz-Treiberpaket in der Version 9.3 zum Download freigegeben. Voraussetzung für das CATALYST Control Center (CCC*) ist unter Windows XP ein installiertes Microsoft .NET Framework. Eine aktuelle Version des .NET Framework kann man über die Microsoft Windows Update Seite beziehen.
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products
Die Download-Links führen zu den Game.AMD.com Support-Seiten, wo man die Treiberpakete einzeln (Windows XP) oder aber komplett (Windows XP & Vista) inkl. CATALYST Control Center (CCC*) beziehen kann.
NVIDIA hat ein neues, offizielles und WHQL-zertifiziertes Treiberpaket mit der Versionsnummer 15.25 für seine aktuellen nForce-Chipsätze veröffentlicht.
NVIDIA hat ein neues, offizielles und WHQL-zertifiziertes Treiberpaket mit der Versionsnummer 15.26 für seine aktuellen nForce-Chipsätze veröffentlicht.
Später als ursprünglich geplant, ist nun die Beta 3 von Firefox 3.1 erschienen. Auf Grund der zahlreichen Verbesserungen plant man aber nun die finale Version des Browsers im zweiten Quartal als Firefox 3.5 herauszubringen.
Wie üblich empfiehlt Mozilla die Beta-Version nur Entwicklern und Testern, also nicht für Produktivumgebungen.
Release Notes:
- Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
- Improvements to web worker thread support.
- Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- New native JSON support.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
Realtek hat mit der Version 2.18 ein neues Treiberpaket für seine High Definition Audio-Codecs veröffentlicht. HDA-Soundchips aus Realteks ALC88x Serie sind z.B. auf vielen aktuellen AM2 und neuen AM2+ Mainboards anzutreffen und bieten 8-Kanal High Definition Sound.
History: -------- Driver Package R2.18 Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista/WinXP/Win2000/Win2003 . 1. Vista WHQL Supporting: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262,ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887 2. Windows 2000/XP WHQL Supporting: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267,ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887 3. HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices 4. OS Supporting: Microsoft WindowsXP, Widnows2000, Vista, Windows7 x86/x64 5. Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1.0a(5013) 6. Add/Fix 1.) Driver : 1. Customizations. 2.) Package : 1. Support driver folder of Windows Server 2008 in package . 2. Disable Status Dialog when small VGA Mode enabled . 3. Fix CreativeUp folder disappear issue .
Microsoft hat den Release Candidate des Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 und des Windows Vista Service Pack 2 nun zum öffentlichen Download freigegeben.
Die Entwickler der Mozilla Foundation haben mit der Version 3.0.7 für den im Juni 2008 veröffentlichten Firefox 3 Webbrowser ein Update zum Download bereitgestellt.
Firefox 3.0.7 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.6:
* Fixed several security issues. * Fixed several stability issues. * Official releases for the Estonian, Kannada, and Telugu languages are now available. * Items in the "File" menu show as inactive after using the "Print" item from that menu - switching to a new tab restores them (bug 425844). This issue has been fixed. * For some users, cookies would appear to go “missing” after a few days (bug 444600). * Mac users of the Flashblock add-on, experienced an issue where sound from the Flash plug-in would continue to play for a short time after closing a tab or window (bug 474022). * Fixed several issues related to accessibility features. * See the Firefox 3.0.6 release notes for changes in previous releases.
NVIDIA hat für seine GeForce-Grafikkarten einen neuen offiziellen Treiber mit WHQL-Zertifikat veröffentlicht. Vorwiegend stellt der Treiber Support für die gestern vorgestellte GeForce 250 GTS sicher.
Der norwegische Entwickler Opera Software hat eine neue Version (9.64) des gleichnamigen alternativen Webbrowsers veröffentlicht. Opera wird seit September 2005 kostenlos und frei von Werbung angeboten (wir berichteten).
Changes since Opera 9.63:
Security
* Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team; see our advisory
* Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by Adam Barth; details will be disclosed at a later date.
* Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.
* Added support for the following platform-specific features:
o DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Microsoft WindowsXP® with Service Pack 2 and higher and Microsoft Windows Server 2003® with Service Pack 1 o ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Microsoft Windows Vista®
* Added Untrusted Rootstore Capability:
o Opera downloads only the detailed information about untrusted (blacklisted) certificates when they are encountered o If download fails for certificate information in the list, Opera considers any certificate matching the ID as untrusted
* Added version conditional fetching of certificate dependencies from an online repository
* Fixed a problem downloading the CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
* Fixed a problem that could cause SSL to deadlock in one state, hanging the connection
* Fixed a problem that could cause the incorrect calculation of Certificate IDs
* Implemented Extended Validation (EV) for cross-signed EV Root Certificates not shipped by default
* Implemented preshipping of the Entrust 2048 CA (Certificate Authority)
* Implemented Root Certificate fetching from an online repository when an intermediate matches a certificate in the repository
* Improved support for weak encryption when importing .p12 private certificates
* Prevented security information documents from being written to disk
Miscellaneous
* Fixed a problem which created separate feed notifications; Opera now groups them together
* Fixed a problem with inline find when no content was entered and the Enter key was pressed
* Implemented opacity on text styled with hexidecimal color codes
* Installing an external source viewer no longer requires an Opera restart
* Installing Opera sets it as the default browser; this may be reset during the install process
Das freie Chatprogramm Pidgin wurde in der Version 2.5.5 veröffentlicht. Seit der letzten Version wurden Fehler behoben und die Kompatibilität zu ICQ 6 verbessert. Auch die Unterstützung für das MSN-Protokoll wurde ausgebaut.
Pidgin unterstützt derzeit folgende Protokolle:
AIM
Bonjour
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
Groupwise
ICQ
IRC
MSN
MySpaceIM
QQ
SILC
SIMPLE
Sametime
XMPP
Yahoo!
Zephyr
Changelog 2.5.4 zu 2.5.5:
libpurple
Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To enable, check the "Use SSL" option from the Advanced tab when editing your AIM or ICQ account. (Paul Aurich)
Fix a memory leak in SILC. (Luke Petre)
Fix some string handling in the SIMPLE prpl, which fixes some buddy name handling and other issues. (Paul Aurich, Marcus Sundberg)
Implement support for resolving DNS via the SOCKS4 proxy (SOCKS4a).
ICQ
Fix retrieval of status messages from users of ICQ 6.x, Miranda, and other libpurple clients. (Daniel Ljungborg)
Change client ID to match ICQ Basic 14.34.3096. This fixes publishing of buddy icons and available messages.
Properly publish status messages for statuses other than Available. ICQ 6.x users can now see these status messages. (Daniel Ljungborg)
Fix receipt of messages from the mobile client Slick. (David Jedelsky)
MSN
Fix transfer of buddy icons, custom smileys, and files from the latest Windows Live Messenger 9 official client. (Thomas Gibson-Robinson)
Large (multi-part) messages are now correctly re-combined.
Federated/Yahoo! buddies should now stop creating sync issues at every signin. You may need to remove duplicates in the Address Book. See the FAQ for more information. Thanks to Jason Lingohr for lots of debugging and testing.
Messages from Yahoo! buddies are no longer silently dropped.
We now save and use the CacheKey for ABCH SOAP requests.
Don't try to parse Personal Status Messages or Current Media if they don't exist.
Convert from ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8 when no charset is specified on incoming messages. This should fix some issues with messages from older clients.
Force sending the font "Segoe UI" if outgoing formatting doesn't specify a font already.
Queue callbacks when token updates are in progress to prevent two token update attempts from trampling each other.
Fixed a crash on Windows when removing a buddy's alias.
Update the Address Book when buddies' friendly names change. This prevents seeing an outdated alias or not seeing an alias at all for buddies who are offline when you sign in.
Update tokens for FindMembership and ABFindAll SOAP requests.
We no longer try to send empty messages. This could happen when a message contained only formatting and that formatting was not supported on MSN.
Buddies on both the Allow and Block list are now automatically removed from the Allow list. Users with this problem will now no longer receive an ADL 241 error. The problematic buddy should now appear on the buddy list and can be removed or unblocked as desired.
XMPP
Resources using __HOSTNAME__ substitution will now grab only the short hostname instead of the FQDN on systems which put the FQDN in the hostname. (Mat?j Cepl)
No longer send a 'to' attribute on an outgoing stanza when we haven't received one. This fixes a registration bug as described in ticket #6635.
Pidgin
Tooltip windows now appear below the mouse cursor. (Kosta Arvanitis)
Tooltip windows now disappear on keypress events. (Kosta Arvanitis)
Tooltip windows no longer linger when scrolling the buddy list. (Kosta Arvanitis)
Finch
Allow rebinding keys to change the focused widget (details in the man-page, look for GntBox::binding)
NVIDIA hat heute für die Anwender, die bereits die Beta-Version von Microsoft Windows 7 im Einsatz haben, einen neuen offiziellen Grafiktreiber der Versionsnummer 181.71 veröffentlicht. Gemäß dem neuen Windows 7 Treibermodell WDDM 1.1 soll es durch die neue 2D-Beschleunigung eine bessere Performance erreichen wie auch unter Aero.
"Wir gehen davon aus, dass sich unsere intensive Zusammenarbeit mit Microsoft in den letzten zwei Jahren für GeForce-GPU-Anwender beim offiziellen Launch von Windows 7 auszahlen wird", erklärt Dwight Diercks, Vice President Software Engineering bei NVIDIA. "Unsere Kunden fordern schnellere und visuellere Darstellungen. In Verbindung mit den vielen neuen GPU-beschleunigten Features, einschließlich DirectX Compute, sind wir überzeugt, dass Windows 7 gut positioniert ist, um diese Anforderungen zu erfüllen."
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 [Windows]
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