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5 little improvements were added to mintInstall 5:

  • A progress bar now appears when mintInstall is refreshing/loading
  • A new button called “Versions” lets you see the packages and repositories defined by the mint file, and for each package the available and installed versions.
  • The error message shown at startup was replaced with an information message asking you to refresh the application.
  • All tables now show rows with alternate colours
  • Email addresses are hidden within reviews (joeuser@hotmail.com shows as j…r@hotmail.com)

If you missed the announcement about mintInstall 5, read here:

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=239

MintInstall 5.1 is available in Romeo. If you don’t have Romeo enabled you can get the debs from here:

Let us know what you think, report any bug you may find and have a lot of fun with this brand new mintInstall.

To translate mintInstall 5.1 into your own language, use this forum thread: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=16371

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The IRC Quizz wasn’t popular at all this month. Only one player.. and winner:

1              mocap  — 0.225 pts,  2 games. * Congrats! *

There were 1 users playing 2 games.

If you haven’t joined the Quizz yet, it’s very easy:

– In Linux Mint: open up Xchat-Gnome (or Konversation) then when it’s connected join the #pimpmymint channel.
– On other platforms: Launch your favorite IRC client, connect to the irc.spotchat.org server and join the #pimpmymint channel.

Note: Make sure to register your nickname with Nickserv so that the Quizz bot can remember you the next time you log in.

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We’ve been hit again by this: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=235

The good news this time is that we’ll be faster to get rid of it (we’ve got really up to date backups), the bad news is that we’re still obviously vulnerable despite the measures we took the last time. I’ll ask Michael (our sysadmin) to look into this and to find out how this could have happened.

I’ll keep you posted.. I just found out about it a few minutes ago.

Update #1: A backdoor virus was found so it’s possible we got re-infected from the inside. I’m currently re-applying updates to clean the website first.

Update #2: The Wiki, forums, blog, software portal and main website are now clean.

Update #3: I’ll be upgrading the forums to the latest version of phpBb today so they might be offline or disabled for a while.

Update #4: The forums were upgraded to the latest version of phpBB. We’re missing the global announcements and there’s a little problem with the theme but overall they’re back online and they should be working fine.

Update #5: The blog was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.

Update #6: The wiki was upgraded to the latest version of MediaWiki. We also know more about the problem now.. the first attack left a virus called PHP.RSTBackdoor.

Update #7: The planet was upgraded to the latest version of Gregarius.

Update #8: All the cleanup is done. All our tools were upgraded to their latest versions and we made new backups. Michael identified malware uploaded via mintUpload. We’re discussing the possibility to restrict, secure or even discontinue the free part of this service.