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Apple on Wednesday posted Security Update 2004-10-27. Also available for download through the Software Update system preference pane, the update "delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users," according to Apple. The release includes an updated version of Apple Remote Desktop v1.2.4 running on Mac OS X v10.3.

The problem only affects Macs running Mac OS X v10.3 and Apple Remote Desktop v1.2.4, where:

• A user on the client system has been enabled with the Open and quit applications privilege;
  
• The username and password of the Apple Remote Desktop user is known;
  
• Fast user switching has been enabled;
  
• And a user is logged in, and loginwindow is active via Fast User Switching;

Download: Apple Security Update 2004-10-27
News source: MacCentral

Asa just updated his blog with more information on the release candidate:

Today we have our first Firefox 1.0 candidate builds available for testing. If all goes well in testing these builds, then we're on target for our 1.0 release in early November. If you're interested in testing these candidates and reporting bugs to Bugzilla, you can get them from FTP. If you've already downloaded 1.0 PR (the "feature complete" preview) and you're not particularly interested in active testing and bug reporting, then you should probably stick with 1.0 PR for a couple more weeks and upgrade when we release the official Firefox 1.0.

Testing application update is one area we could really use your help. To test this, please see the instructions at Testing Software Update page. It will require you set a hidden preference to point your PR build at a testing server that should deliver you an application update to RC1. The release candidates include about 250 bug fixes since Firefox 1.0 PR and we'd appreciate any feedback around any of those areas. If you can help in verifying (feel free to skim the bug titles and find ones that interest you) that would be great! Update: According to Asa, the Mozilla Update function is confirmed to be broken in the RC

With this release, we're also featuring Mozilla Foundation builds for up to two dozen locales (slowly trickling in. if you don't see your language, try back in a bit.) These builds are hot off the press and haven't received as much testing as we'd like so if you're a non-English user, or speak any non-English languages, we'd encourage you to download one of the new localized builds and hammer on it some. The more testing we get at this stage, the easier time we'll have releasing all these localizations when we ship the en-US builds on November 9.

If you do find regressions from the Preview Release, please file bugs in Bugzilla and nominate them as Firefox 1.0 blockers using the "blocking-aviary1.0?" flag on the bug. Thanks for your help in testing Firefox!