Savane is a Web-based Libre Software hosting system. It includes issue tracking (bugs, tasks, support, news and documentation), project member management by roles and individual account maintenance.
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Version 3 is written in PHP and Perl and is designed to run with Apache and MySQL.
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Registration Date: Fri Jan 30 21:21:41 2004
License: GNU General Public License V2 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
Sylvain Beucler discovered that Savane, a 100% free software hosting platform, is vulnerable to a symlink attack on ~/.ssh user directories that may allow the attacker to gain access to other user accounts.
We forwarded the patch to gforge, which was also vulnerable, where it was identified as Debian-assigned CVE-2009-3304, disclosed today.
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Here comes a new Savane release. This release brings many improvements. A markup language (inspired by the commonly used in wikis) enables users to format content, for instance in item reports. Numerous anti-spam tools are now available: DNSbl, ...
Here comes a new Savane release. This release brings many interface improvements. Most notably, the top menu now use dropdown submenus, which allow users to jump from any page to another with a single click. Note also that the "display criteria" boxes are minimized by default, to give more room to the results.
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We need people interested in maintaining Savane for distributions like Debian, Fedora extras.
If you think you have the profile, you appreciate Savane enough and want to be involved in Libre Software development and distribution in the long-run, please go ahead, start reading docs of the distributions you use and like and start the packaging work. :)
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