Author: ProHoster

Release of Electron 40, a platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine

Electron 40.0.0 is now available. It provides a self-contained framework for developing cross-platform user applications using Chromium, V8, and Node.js components. Changes in the new release include: Updated versions of the Chromium browser engine to 144, Node.js to 24.11.1, and V8 to 14.4 JavaScript engine (the previous version used Chromium 142, Node.js 22.20.0, and V8 14.2). Support for the termination flag has been added […]

MX Linux distribution release 25.1

MX Linux 25.1, a lightweight distribution created through the collaborative work of the antiX and MEPIS communities, has been released. The release is based on the Debian package base, with improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution offers a choice of sysVinit and systemd init systems. Custom tools for system configuration and deployment are also included. For […]

Release of Cozystack 0.40, an open source PaaS platform based on Kubernetes

The release of the open source PaaS platform Cozystack 0.40, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of preparing the infrastructure for providing managed services. Cozystack allows you to launch and provision Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform code […]

A project to create an open quantum computer

Open Quantum Design (OQD), a nonprofit organization founded by researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo (Canada), is developing the first open-source quantum computer. The working prototype of the open-source quantum computer is being developed as a collaborative project, pooling the resources, knowledge, and expertise of research groups from various universities, nonprofit organizations, and private companies specializing in quantum computing. It is noted that the joint work […]

A KWin plugin for using KDE in virtual reality

An experimental plugin has been released for the KWin compositing manager that transforms KDE into a desktop environment for virtual reality systems. The plugin allows the interface to be generated not on a physical monitor, but as virtual screens in a 3D space, accessible through augmented reality glasses or 3D headsets. Support for floating windows, the combination of physical and virtual screens, and arbitrary screen positioning is available.

The Fortran compiler has been returned to the NetBSD base system.

Twenty years ago, when gcc4 was released, the g77 compiler was replaced by gfortran. However, due to some issues with it, it was removed from the NetBSD base image. Thanks to recent changes in NetBSD-current, gfortran is now included in the base operating system image again. In the near future, there are plans to add the appropriate variables to pkgsrc for compiling programs with […]

Taking control of snap packages associated with expired domains

Alan Pope, former Engineering and Community Manager at Canonical, has noticed a new wave of attacks targeting Snap Store users. Instead of registering new accounts, attackers have begun buying up expired domains listed in the email addresses of registered Snap developers. After purchasing the domain, the attackers redirect email traffic to their server and receive […]

Chrome Release 144: Testing JPEG XL, Vertical Tabs, and AI Disabling

Google has published the release of the Chrome 144 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in that it uses Google logos, has a system for sending notifications in the event of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, constant Sandbox isolation, supply of keys to the Google API and transmission of RLZ parameters […]

Synfig 1.5.4, a 2D animation suite, is now available.

After a year and a half of development, Synfig 1.5.4 has been released. It advances the 2D vector animation editor used in the production of the animated project "Morevna." Designed specifically for animation, the package enables the creation of cinematic-quality work without the need for routine intermediate rendering of each frame. The project's code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Synfig builds are available for Linux (AppImage), Windows, and […]

Release of the jQuery 4.0 JavaScript library

Almost 10 years after the release of the 3.0 branch and 20 years after the project's founding, jQuery 4.0, a JavaScript library, has been released. According to W3Techs, jQuery is used by 70.9% of the top 10 million most visited websites on the web. The jQuery code is distributed under the MIT license. The release of jQuery 4.0 contains changes that break backward compatibility, but according to the developers, most […]

ChaosBSD is a FreeBSD fork for testing drivers.

The ChaosBSD project maintains a periodically synchronized fork of FreeBSD, aimed at testing drivers before their inclusion in the main FreeBSD distribution. The project provides a platform for developing and porting new drivers, as well as for testing, testing, and stabilizing partially functional, unstable, and unfinished drivers whose development status prevents them from being included in the main FreeBSD distribution. Once stabilized, such drivers will […]

Release of nvtop 3.3.0, a utility for monitoring GPUs and hardware accelerators

nvtop 3.3.0, a command-line utility for interactively monitoring GPUs and hardware accelerators, has been released. The utility allows you to visually monitor GPU load, memory consumption, and frequency changes, as well as view the processes that are most heavily loading the GPU. Supported GPUs and accelerators include those from AMD, Apple (M1, M2), Google (TPU), Huawei (Ascend), Intel (i915/Xe), NVIDIA, Qualcomm (Adreno), Broadcom (VideoCore), Rockchip, […]