Critical Git and Mercurial Vulnerability on OS X and Windows

A critical security vulnerability affecting Git and Mercurial has been announced yesterday, making it possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands in the client machine. The vulnerability only affects clients running on OS X (HFS+) and Windows (NTFS, FAT). The Git core team has published new releases for all current versions of Git.

Qt 5.4 Released

Lars Knoll, QT project chief maintainer, announced the release of Qt 5.4, offering many improvements in the area of web technologies, full support for Qt on Windows runtime, new features for graphics handling, and a new licensing model.

New Tools from Google to Help Developing C/C++ Applications on Android

A new set of libraries and tools from Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs, fplutil, promises to make it easier to develop C/C++ applications for Android.

Reimplementing TeX's Algorithms: Looking Back at Thirty Years of Programming

Glenn Vanderburg, director of engineering at LivingSocial, gave an interesting recount of his effort to implement TeX’s algorithms in Clojure at the last ClojureConj conference. In the process, he discovered how much programming has changed in the last thirty years.

CocoaPods Adds Support for Swift and iOS 8 Frameworks

CocoaPods 0.36-beta has recently been released, providing support for iOS 8 frameworks and libraries written in the Swift language, writes Marius Rackwitz (@mrackwitz), member of CocoaPods core team. This release allows pod maintainers to ensure compatibility of existing pods, while also enabling the creation of new pods for Swift libraries.