A security breach is likely to delay for several days tonight's (AEST) scheduled release of the next version of the popular GNOME open source desktop environment, a member of the release team said. . . .
A security breach is likely to delay for several days tonight's (AEST) scheduled release of the next version of the popular GNOME open source desktop environment, a member of the release team said.

Jeff Waugh, the head beekeeper of the GNOME Release Team and the director of the GNOME Foundation Board has confirmed that a security breach of the GNOME Web server is "likely to delay the release [of GNOME 2.6]...however we have not made that decision officially yet". He told ZDNet Australia   the delay was likely to be about a week.

Last night Owen Taylor, on behalf of the GNOME sysadmin team released a statement via their newsgroup that an intrusion had been made.

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