Good news to Kaspersky fans including myself. In their forum, one of the pioneer beta tester reported that a new version of Kaspersky’s security products are in development and will release for beta-testing in Fall and plan to release officially in 2008. They have included some most powerful technologies that no other antivirus developer is using currently.

The following is what reported in the forum :

• Personal line up of version 8 products will be released in 2008. Beta testing will start in Winter. Forum testing in Fall.
• Version 8 is based on in-house new protection concepts and technologies, which have no current analogies on the market as we know it.
• For now requirements and standards for the first version are completed. The product is in active development stage.
• The core team contains the same people who brought you version 6.0. However some additional members from 7.0 joined development forces with us.
• Some improvements planned for v8 will be included in v7 MP1, which will be released by the end of this year.
• During v8 testing the particular attention will be paid to the forum threads. A separate KL team member will be allocated just for reading your suggestions and bug reports (in addition to all other KL members, which are already present on the forum)
• In v8 we are planning to use several new technologies, which are developed cooperatively together with KL and other companies
• The new GUI is again rewritten from scratch. Only small components of v6/7 are utlized
• The main window is completely brand new and changed as compared to version 7.
• The number components in the main navigator window is currently counted as six.
• In the product interface it is planned to use graphical objects for dynamic and additional statistical information display
• The product plans to utilize several online-services
• Wi-Fi networks and protection routines will be expanded as compared to previous versions.
• One of the product option, will perform a through inspection for maximum details through certain defined inspection points.

Wordpress 2.3 Beta (Visit The Credence Dot Com for more info about wordpress) has been released with some beautiful features. It has a built in Plugin Update Notifier, Tags Support, Faster Javascript, SEO Friendly URL, etc. There is not much details about this beta release but it worth to try it out. Remember, a first beta may contain many bugs and it is mainly for beta-testing only. Do not replace with your live wordpress. If you feel comfortable, remember to backup your all the files. For me, I will set a subdomain to test it out.

You can download this beta version at Wordpress Site and the following is quoted from their site :

The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it.

Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

However all of the new functionality is still very rough, so only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your data religiously.

I am testing it out now and will update here is I found any interesting stuff and of course, “bugs”.

Update - Screenshot
A New Tag Bar

New item in Post Status - Pending Review

A new Converters & Importers in Categories Section

A new Plugin Update Notifier