On April 15, the FSF declared the ONLYOFFICE license incompatible with the AGPLv3 license. The conflict arose surrounding the Euro-Office project — a European fork of the ONLYOFFICE suite. In March 2026, the creators of Euro-Office removed some additional clauses from the AGPLv3 license that ONLYOFFICE had added in 2021. These clauses, in particular, required all derivative products to retain the original logo […]
On April 21, a major release of QEMU version 11.0 took place — a free, open-source program for emulating hardware across various platforms. The update includes: a new CPU model for Intel Diamond Rapids; a new 'nitro' accelerator for launching Nitro Enclaves (which allows running isolated environments (enclaves) directly through QEMU on hosts that support Nitro technology, without the need to use […]
The release of QEMU 11.0.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows running programs built for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a hardware system due to direct instruction execution on the CPU and utilizing […]
An independent enthusiast, not affiliated with Microsoft, has implemented the WSL9x (Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux) toolkit, allowing modern Linux kernels to run within the Windows 95/98/ME kernel. This project enables running Linux and Windows 9x applications side by side on the same system, similar to how the WSL layer allows Linux applications to work on modern versions of Windows. Supported […]
Andrew Lunn has sent out a series of patches to begin the removal of several ISA and PCMCIA era network drivers from the Linux kernel. He details the recent maintenance burden due to artificial intelligence/fuzzing: "Until recently, these old drivers didn't require much maintenance. Now, with more newcomers using AI, testers are utilizing […]
On April 21, the latest version of the NTFS-3G FUSE driver was released. This release primarily focuses on bug fixes. What's new: fix in the build script (bashism) that incorrectly used specific Bash commands where a universal standard should have been employed; creating a new NTFS partition via the mkntfs utility is now defined with microsecond accuracy; fix for two cases related […]
The Fedora project is considering introducing a verified participant status (Fedora Verified), which would highlight developers who have contributed to the project's development and deserve certain privileges, such as participating in decision-making. The main reason for the proposed changes is the uncertainty about who can participate in community voting. Obtaining the "Fedora Verified" status will allow participation in voting […]
Firefox 150 is now available. Among the interesting new features are managing the placement of open tabs, adding some editing features to the PDF viewer, and addressing numerous vulnerabilities, including those identified using neural networks. Linux: Support for the emoji picker provided by GTK has been added (usually triggered by the Ctrl+. combination). Official builds are available as RPM packages. The context menu for links now includes the option "Open link […]
Andrew Lunn, the maintainer of 9 subsystems responsible for network drivers in the Linux kernel, has published a set of patches that remove all drivers for Ethernet adapters with ISA and PCMCIA interfaces from the kernel. It is noted that previously, maintaining old drivers did not require much effort, but with the advent of advanced AI tools and fuzz testing systems used by newcomers to identify bugs in the kernel, […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system, version 7.2.8, which addresses 9 vulnerabilities, details of which are not yet disclosed. It is only noted that 5 of the most serious issues have a severity level of 7.5 out of 10. One of the vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely over the network. In addition to the vulnerabilities, the new version introduces 17 changes: In the add-ons for host environments with […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.54 has been announced. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience against 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in every commit, along with digital signature verification of individual tags and commits by developers. The Git code […]
The release of the distributed database Apache Cloudberry 2.1.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the open code base of the Greenplum database, which was transformed into a proprietary product by Broadcom after acquiring VMware. The project is currently in the Apache incubator and will be moved to primary Apache projects once the infrastructure and supporting elements are ready. The Cloudberry database is a distributed edition of the open PostgreSQL database, optimized for […]