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Author: Erik Peterson

A ProHoster specialist with over seven years of experience in hosting, network infrastructure, and internet security. I participate in the development and maintenance of server solutions, VPN services, and client platforms. I specialize in stability, data protection, and service optimization for clients. I regularly monitor updates in industry standards and best practices.

The rars project has prepared a free implementation of RAR with support for archive creation.

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The rars project has introduced a free implementation of a toolkit for the RAR format, written in Rust and supporting not only extraction but also the creation of RAR archives. The toolkit supports both early RAR formats 1.3/1.4 with the signature 'RE~^' and the latest version RAR 7. It includes advanced operations such as volume splitting, password protection, header encryption, comment attachment, RARVM filters, indexes […]

The first release of QSOE, an operating system styled after QNX with two interchangeable microkernels.

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The first release of the QSOE operating system has been presented, designed in the style of QNX and supplied with two interchangeable microkernels: 'Skimmer' and 'seL4'. At the kernel level, only resource distribution, the synchronous messaging mechanism (QNX IPC), and a minimalist core are executed, while all other components are implemented in user space. It supports operation on 64-bit CPUs with RISC-V architecture. The OS has been tested on […]

The KaOS 2026.06 distribution is available, having transitioned from systemd to the Dinit initialization system.

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The release of KaOS 2026.06 has been published, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop with applications based on Qt. Notable design features include a vertical panel placed on the right side of the screen. The distribution is developed with a focus on Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository comprising over 1500 packages, as well as offering a number of its own graphical utilities. […]

The Fedora project introduces mandatory two-factor authentication for privileged maintainers.

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The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora Linux development, has decided to implement mandatory two-factor authentication for all members of the provenpackager group who have commit rights in the repositories where package maintenance and development occur. Unlike participants who have access to develop specific packages, members of the provenpackager group can make changes in […]

AlmaLinux is certified for compliance with security level EAL1.

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The AlmaLinux project has announced the certification of the distribution under the Common Criteria EAL1 (Evaluation Assurance Level 1) security compliance program. The certificate has been received for the release of AlmaLinux 9.2. EAL1 is the initial level of certification and indicates that independent testing of the declared functionality has been passed. EAL1 confirms the correctness of operation and is intended for areas where security threats are not serious. Certification […]

The nginx project has released the JavaScript module njs 1.0.0.

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The release of njs 1.0.0 has been published, which is a module for integrating the JavaScript language interpreter into the nginx http server. Njs allows the use of JavaScript scripts in configuration files to extend nginx capabilities. Scripts can be used to define advanced request handling logic, generate configuration, dynamically create responses, modify requests/responses, or quickly create stubs for troubleshooting in web applications. The project code is written in C […]

Release of the minimalist set of system utilities Toybox 0.8.14

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The release of the Toybox 0.8.14 system utility suite has been published, optimized for minimal resource consumption. Similar to BusyBox, all utilities in the suite are available through a single executable file. The project is developed by a former maintainer of BusyBox, written in C, and distributed under the 0BSD license. The goal of Toybox is to provide manufacturers with the opportunity to use a minimalist set of standard utilities without exposing the source code […]

Firefox 152.0.2 Update

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A corrective release of Firefox 152.0.2 is available, featuring four fixes: A regression that disrupted the playback of some MP4 videos has been resolved. Issues with the incorrect display of localized section names in the configurator have been addressed. The content mismatch in the new tab with the changed language settings has been fixed. A performance regression that slowed down concurrent encryption and decryption operations has been eliminated […]

fooyin 0.11.0 and 0.11.1

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On June 22, releases 0.11.0 and 0.11.1 of fooyin took place — a music player focused on individual customization. It offers numerous widgets for managing and playing a local music collection. The player has extensive expansion capabilities thanks to its plugin system and includes FooScript — a scripting language for enhanced widget customization. You can fully customize the user interface by entering layout editing mode: […]

GNU nano 9.1 "with a hungry horse on our leg"

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On June 23, version 9.1 titled ‘met een hongerig paard aan ons been’ of the GNU nano console editor was released. Changes: The viewing area during search is aligned to the left where possible. The ability to read and write files in the old Mac format (i.e., files that use a single carriage return as the end-of-line character) has been removed. The ^T switch has been eliminated […]

A one-line change in GCC resulted in a 12% speedup in one test and a 14% slowdown in another.

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An engineer from Intel made a single-line change to the GCC compiler set, increasing the weight of incorrect branch prediction on x86 processors. This change improved the performance of the generated code by 12.7% in the 544.nab_r test with optimizations "-O2 -mtune=graniterapids" for Intel Granite Rapids/Xeon 6 CPUs, and by 12.1% with optimizations "-O2 -mtune=znver5" on AMD Zen5 CPUs. The change […]

COSMIC desktop environment 1.1.0 is now available.

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System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released COSMIC desktop environment version 1.1.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.1.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and will soon be available in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]

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