In today's open source roundup: Firefox 37 is out. Plus: Debian 8 Jesse release date announced, and mass confusion ensues when Reddit reverses the Android and Apple subreddits Firefox 37 released The Mozilla developers have been rocketing right along with the development of Firefox. Firefox 37 is the latest version and it offers native HTML5 playback on YouTube, a new user rating system called Heartbeat and secure Bing searches. Marius Nestor reports for Softpedia: For end-users, Mozilla Firefox 37.0 is not an exciting release, as it introduces an all-new user rating system, called Heartbeat, that allows them to more easily send feedback to Mozilla about their web browser, sets the Yandex search engine by default when using the Turkish locale, and it now uses secure HTTP connections when searching with Bing. The new version also improves protection against website impersonation by implementing a OneCRL centralized certificate revocation. Bettes HTTP/2 support has been added to encrypt the HTTP traffic if the server supports the new protocol, WebGL rendering has been greatly improved on the Windows platform, and IndexedDB is now accessible from worker threads. It appears the infamous subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API has been finally implemented to allow native HTML5 video playback on the YouTube website. However, please note that Mac and Linux OSes support only 720p at the moment. Support for CSS display:contents has been added, as well as a new SDP/JSEP implementation in WebRTC. More at Softpedia The Mozilla site has release notes for Firefox 37: Check out “What’s New” and “Known Issues” for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, or file a bug in Bugzilla. If interested, please see the complete list of changes in this release. We’d also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox! More at Mozilla Redditors reacted to the news in a thread about Firefox 37: Monk_on_Fire: “Yes. Yes, yes, yes. This video plays perfectly for me at 1080p60. Thank you, people of Firefox!” Accipiter46: “Finally, MSE on youtube. The html5 video playback has been a bit buggy for me the last few weeks, hopefully this will help.” MaTachi: “Will this MSE thingy eventually work on Linux too?” Doublec: “It will be enabled by default on Linux eventually. It runs now, and you can enable it manually, but it needs more testing and bug fixing.” Xonero: “I dunno about anyone else but so far (for me) Firefox’s RAM usage and CPU usage have shot way up when using HTML5. From like 500-600 MB to over 1 GB and the CPU usage from about 30-40 % to 80 % and higher.” Pushme2: “High motion, high definition and high frame rate video still stutters, lags and freezes while the audio occasionally gets static and chops. Here is an example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI4B1RPUzqE Using firefox 37 on arch x86_64. The same exact videos when played in VLC and MPV work perfectly fine without dropping a single frame. Even Google Chrome and Chromium both run buttery smooth.” More at Reddit Debian Jesse release date The Debian developers have been very busy on the next version of Debian. Many people have been wondering when it will be released, and we now have a final release date of April 25th for Debian 8 Jesse. The Debian mailing list has the details: We now have a target release date of Saturday the 25th of April. We have checked with core teams, and this seems to be acceptable for everyone. This means we are able to begin the final preparations for a release of Debian 8 – “Jessie”. The intention is only to lift the date if something really critical pops up that is not possible to handle as an errata, or if we end up technically unable to release that weekend. Please keep in mind that we intend to have a quiet period from Saturday the 18th of April. Bug fixes must be *in Jessie* before then. More at Debian The Debian site has more information about Debian 8 Jesse: The code name for the next major Debian release after wheezy is “jessie”. This release started as a copy of wheezy, and is currently in a state called “testing”. This means that things should not break as badly as in unstable or experimental distributions, because packages are allowed to enter this distribution only after a certain period of time has passed, and when they don’t have any release-critical bugs filed against them. Please note that security updates for “testing” distribution are not yet managed by the security team. Hence, “testing” does not get security updates in a timely manner. You are encouraged to switch your sources.list entries from testing to wheezy for the time being if you need security support. See also the entry in the Security Team’s FAQ for the “testing” distribution. More at Debian Linux redditors shared their thoughts about the upcoming release of Debian 8 Thaxll: “A Debian release is like Star Wars, you only got to see a few in your life time!” Dr_theopolis: “I’m looking forward to the special edition digitally remastered version of Debian.” Mongrol: “But unlike Starwars, there’s more than one beard involved or… Unlike starwars, the beard actually listens to people or… Unlike Starwars, Debian gets better each release.” Oneeyed2: “My main gripe with Debian on desktop is that you need to tinker with fonts rendering or it still looks like crap on a default install. Getting Infinality Font to get something equivalent to the quality of Ubuntu is relatively easy though. Other than that since I don’t care much about new features I’m even OK staying on stable. As long as I get security updates it’s all good for me. When I want the newest/freshest apps though I prefer Arch (or Manjaro if you’re lazy) or even Fedora over Debian unstable. But YMMV.” D3triment: “Please for the love of all that is holy tell me they made a new installer already.” More at Reddit Reddit reverses the Android and Apple subreddits Given today’s date, some pranks were bound to happen. Sure enough I noticed that the Android and Apple subreddits suddenly looked a bit…er…different. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Apple and Android fans don’t generally mix well. So you can imagine how some of them felt going to their favorite subreddit and suddenly seeing the logo of their enemy prominently placed at the top of the page. Ouch! And, of course, redditors had to get in on the action with prank threads. There was one from a guy in the Android subreddit who wanted to know how to go about worshipping Steve Jobs. Another Android redditor wanted to know what color Apple watch his fellow Android users planned on buying. Over on the Apple subreddit, a redditor wondered if it had been hacked. He must have missed the thread about the switch that clarified what had happened to the two arch-enemy subreddits. Here are a couple of screenshots for you to savor: Did you miss a roundup? Check the Eye On Open home page to get caught up with the latest news about open source and Linux. Technology IndustryOpen SourceSoftware Development