The ninth release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment has been published, developed from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine some innovative ideas that have not been seen before in user environments with traditional elements such as a plugin-supported panel, application menu, and a desktop where shortcuts can be placed. Work is currently focused on launching in environments on […]
New details have emerged about the promotion of the Aluminium operating system, developed by Google for laptops, mini-PCs, and tablets as part of the plan to merge the Android and Chrome OS platforms. In a transcript of a Google representative's speech during a court hearing related to the antitrust case by the U.S. Department of Justice against Google, it is mentioned that support for Chromebook devices with the ChromeOS operating system […]
A release of the main branch nginx 1.29.5 has been formed, in which the development of new features continues, along with the simultaneous release of a stable branch nginx 1.28.2, which only includes changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The updates address a vulnerability (CVE-2026-1642), allowing an attacker who has the ability to intercept (MITM) the communication channel between nginx and the upstream server to substitute the messages sent to the client […]
The first major release from the Document Foundation in 2026 focuses on performance, compatibility, and file formats, specifically addressing the issues that truly hinder productivity, rather than adding flashy features or, more importantly, chasing the hype surrounding AI, as other office suites do. New features: LibreOffice 26.2 allows importing and exporting files in Markdown format […]
James Morris, the maintainer of the Linux kernel security subsystem and head of the "Linux Emerging Technologies" team at Microsoft, has presented the Litebox project, billed as a security-focused operating system in the form of a Library OS. Litebox can be used in applications or kernels as an additional layer of isolation, blocking access to excess kernel functionality or APIs to reduce the attack surface […]
After almost four months of development, the release of the 0.40 console utility nwipe has taken place, designed for securely wiping disk content using various wiping methods and pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). It can wipe one disk or several simultaneously. nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command from the Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) project, featuring numerous enhancements and optimizations. The utility is written […]
The official release of 9.10 GNU Coreutils has occurred—essentially the standard core utilities set in Linux systems and some other platforms. Significant changes include: The man-page generation process has been modified. Command-line options described in the man-page can be made hyperlinked. The timeout command now intercepts all signals leading to process termination and guarantees that the child command is completed before its own termination. The paste(1) command has been corrected […]
JetBrains has announced plans to include support for the Wayland protocol by default in the upcoming IntelliJ 2026.1 integrated development environments. Prior to the release, users can test Wayland support using EAP builds of IntelliJ IDEA (Early Access Program). IDEs based on IntelliJ will now be able to run directly in Wayland-based desktop environments without using XWayland. […]
Changes have been added to the VirtualBox virtualization system repository, allowing the use of the built-in KVM hypervisor in the Linux kernel instead of the VirtualBox-specific kernel module (vboxdrv). The implementation has been prepared by Oracle employees and is being developed separately from the VirtualBox-KVM patch set supported by Cyberus Technology. It is noted that Oracle started working on the KVM backend several years ago, but the development has been delayed due to a lack of engineering resources. Starting […]
The framework is an implementation of Erlang concepts for development in Go, built on the actor model with network transparency and ready components. Key features in this version of mTLS include a new interface gen.CertAuthManager for mutual authentication with CA pool management, and NAT traversal options — RouteHost and RoutePort for nodes behind NAT or load balancers. Startup time control — InitTimeout […]
The stable version of the basic system utilities set GNU Coreutils 9.10 has been released, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Key innovations: In man pages and prompts displayed when the ‘—help’ option is specified, commands and options are highlighted in bold, and there is a new option for binding to […]
The Document Foundation has published the release of the office suite LibreOffice 26.2. Installation packages are prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. In version 26.2, the project has stopped supplying the label 'Community' (LibreOffice Community) and reverted to simply offering LibreOffice. The 'Community' label was previously added to emphasize that the build is supported by enthusiasts and is not intended for use on […]