Opera 12.17 fixes Heartbleed vulnerabilites

It looks like the Opera team is planning to keep the classic version of Opera (version 12.x) alive and secure – at least for now.

An update to the pre-Webkit version of Opera was announced yesterday. The new version addresses two Heartbleed vulnerabilities in the update software.

Note that this update is for Windows only. Mac and Linux versions are unaffected.

There doesn’t seem to be a release notes page for this version. The main change log page doesn’t even list version 12.17.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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