Author: Yuri Gagarin

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 […]

Release of the MX distribution Linux 25.1

The lightweight MX distribution has been released. Linux 25.1, created as a result of the collaboration between the communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. The release is based on the package base Debian With improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution offers a choice of sysVinit and systemd init systems. It comes with its own tools for system configuration and deployment. 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 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 […]

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, […]

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release and KDE Plasma 6.7 Development Start

The latest KDE weekly development report has been published, presenting the first batch of changes for the KDE Plasma 6.7 branch, expected to be released in June. Development of the new branch began after the KDE Plasma 6.6 branch entered beta testing and the associated codebase was frozen from making any functional changes (only patches are accepted). The release of KDE Plasma 6.6 […]

Vulnerability in Android- firmware that allows you to execute code by sending a message

Researchers from Google's Project Zero team have detailed a technique for creating a working exploit that allows remote code execution with kernel privileges. Linux, by sending an SMS or RCS message with a specially crafted audio attachment. The attack is carried out without any user interaction, including viewing or listening to the received message. The exploit exploits two vulnerabilities: in the […]

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