Firefox 152 has been released, along with updates to previous long-term supported branches—140.12.0 and 115.37.0. Firefox 153, scheduled for release on July 21st, will soon enter beta testing. Key new features in Firefox 152 (1, 2, 3): The configurator interface has been redesigned, offering expanded settings search capabilities and separating major sections […]
The release of the LDL 0.3 (Little DirectMedia Layer) multimedia library has been published. It allows you to create graphical applications that can run on both modern and legacy systems (Windows 95 + macOS/OS X/Mac OS X 10.6+, distributions with kernel Linux 2.0+, FreeBSD 3.0+). A simple cross-platform API is provided for window management and input event handling. OpenGL can be used for rendering […]
Almost eight months later, version 2.3 of lzbench, a command-line utility for comparing many popular compression and decompression algorithms (listed with lzbench -l), has been released. The utility is written in C, C++, Rust, and Zig, and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 or 3—your choice. Changes: Compressor alias groups have been reorganized by […]
The "Logic Code" competition for open source software projects has begun. The competition is being held with financial support from individuals and Basalt SPO. The competition is organized by the Institute of Logic, Cognitive Science, and Personal Development. Eligibility: Individuals who are open source software developers and legally competent adults who are tax residents of the Russian Federation. Requirements: A significant contribution to an existing open source software project, published in a public repository under a free license (according to […]
FreeBSD 15.1 has been released—the latest update to the stable branch of FreeBSD 15, a universal UNIX-like operating system for servers, workstations, networking, embedded systems, and cloud environments. According to the FreeBSD 15.1 release schedule, the official announcement took place on June 16, 2026, and support for FreeBSD 15.1 is scheduled to continue until March 31, 2027. FreeBSD 15.1 includes user-space updates, […]
After four months of development, the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment has been released. To evaluate the new KDE releases, you can use builds from KDE projects. Linux, KDE Neon, and openSUSE (Argon, based on openSUSE Leap, and Krypton, based on openSUSE Tumbleweed). Key changes in KDE Plasma 6.7: The unified Union style engine has been integrated, allowing the use of different technologies […]
After six months of development, FreeBSD 15.1 has been released. Installation builds are available for the amd64, aarch64, armv7, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds are available for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. FreeBSD 15.1 will be supported until April 2027, and updates for the 15.x branch will be […]
Basalt SPO and the Institute of Logic, Cognitive Science, and Personal Development are holding the "Logic Code" open source project competition. Developers who have made significant contributions to existing open source software projects published in a public repository under a free license (in accordance with GOST R 54593-2011, including licenses approved by the FSF and OSI) are invited to participate. Individuals who are legally competent adults are eligible to participate.
FreeRDP 3.27.0, an open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), has been released. It includes libraries and clients for connecting to RDP servers. The release was published on June 15, 2026, as announced in the project's official announcement. Archives of the new version have been uploaded to the FreeRDP release directory, and the full set of changes is available via the 3.26.0…3.27.0 comparison on GitHub. The developers call FreeRDP 3.27.0 a major […]
The GCC Steering Committee has approved the inclusion of a WebAssembly backend in the GCC codebase. This decision concerns the general approval of the WebAssembly backend's delivery within GCC. The review team will decide separately on the implementation approval and acceptance of the submitted code. The backend will enable GCC to compile C/C++ source code into intermediate code […]
Daniel Stenberg, author of the curl utility for sending and receiving network data, announced he will suspend accepting and processing vulnerability reports from July 1st to August 3rd. An exception will be made only for those with paid support. The reason cited is the need for a break and rest after a significant increase in the workload of parsing vulnerability reports […]
The Free Software Foundation of Latin America has released a completely free version of the kernel. Linux 7.1 - Linux-libre 7.1-gnu, cleared of firmware and driver elements containing non-free components or code sections whose scope of application is limited by the manufacturer. Linux-libre also disables kernel functions for loading external non-free components not included in the kernel distribution, and removes references to the use of non-free […]