Corrective releases for X.Org Server 21.1.22 and the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 24.1.10 have been published, enabling the X.Org Server to run X11 applications in environments based on Wayland. The new versions fix 5 vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited for privilege escalation in systems where the X server runs with root privileges, as well as for remote code execution […]
The release of OpenSSL 4.0.0 has occurred, offering implementations of the TLS protocols and various encryption algorithms. OpenSSL 4.0 is classified as a standard support release, with updates provided for 13 months. Support for previous branches OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5 LTS, 3.4, and 3.0 LTS will continue until November 2026, April 2030, October 2026, and September […]
The release of the Startwine-Launcher application 420 has been announced, developed for launching programs and games compiled for the Windows platform in Linux systems. The main goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes for beginners — sets of libraries and dependencies necessary for running Windows applications in Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the high-performance HTTP server and multiprotocol proxy server nginx 1.30.0 has been published, which incorporates the changes accumulated in the main branch 1.29.x. All further changes in the stable branch 1.30 will be focused on fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Soon the main branch nginx 1.31 will be formed, in which development of new features will continue […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2026-6100) has been identified in the CPython classes responsible for unpacking compressed data in formats lzma, bz2, and gzip (lzma.LZMADecompressor, bz2.BZ2Decompressor, and gzip.GzipFile), leading to access to memory after it has been freed. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level (9.1 out of 10) — if successfully exploited, the vulnerability could lead to information leakage from the process memory or the execution of code […]
Four years after the last update was released, the jemalloc 5.3.1 memory management library is now available, offering an alternative implementation of malloc functions optimized to reduce fragmentation and operate on multi-processor systems. To address locking issues on multicore systems, jemalloc uses a separate isolated memory allocation area for each CPU core, achieving linear scalability as workload increases […]
Linux kernel developers have officially approved a policy for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) after months of intense debate. Linus Torvalds and industry partners have reached an agreement that allows the employment of AI assistants but imposes strict disclosure rules and places full responsibility for any errors on human developers. The new rules prohibit the use of the legally binding 'Signed-off-by' tag for code generated by AI systems, […]
The fully free GNU/Linux distribution Trisquel 12.0 has been released. Key changes include: the apt package manager has been updated to version 3.0, allowing developers to use the modern deb822 data storage format; kernel modularity has been improved; many AppArmor rules for graphical environments have been changed; GNU IceCat and Ungoogled Chromium browsers have been added to the repository; and a backport repository continues to support the latest versions of popular applications like LibreOffice, […]
The release of the portable edition of the OpenBGPD 9.1 routing package has been announced, developed by the OpenBSD project and adapted for use in FreeBSD and Linux (support for Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu is claimed). To ensure portability, parts of the code have been taken from the OpenNTPD, OpenSSH, and LibreSSL projects. The project supports most of the BGP 4 specifications and complies with RFC8212 requirements but does not attempt to cover everything […]
The release of the free document layout package Scribus 1.6.6 has been announced. This package provides tools for professional print layout, includes PDF generation tools, and supports work with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is developed using the Qt toolkit and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Ready-made binary builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has introduced the release of Linux kernel 7.0. Among the most notable changes are: rules for applying AI assistants, inclusion of Rust as a core feature of the kernel, enhanced swap performance, default enabling of PREEMPT_LAZY mode, support for filters in io_uring operations, a new Nullfs file system, fserror infrastructure, XFS monitoring tools, support for remapping in Btrfs, and default enabling of NFS version 4.1. […]
The release of the Servo 0.1.0 browser engine and its accompanying demo browser ServoShell, written in Rust, has been announced. Ready-built versions are available for Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. In addition to standalone builds, Servo is now also offered as a crate package, allowing the engine to be used as a library. Servo 0.1.0 is the first release to provide a long-term support (LTS) cycle. […]