The release of OpenVPN 2.6.13 has been published, enabling the creation of encrypted connections between two client machines or the operation of a centralized VPN server for handling multiple clients simultaneously. This new version addresses a security issue that could lead to a buffer overflow on the OpenVPN server side when receiving a login or password from the client that exceeds the USER_PASS_LEN value. […]
The open-source database PostgreSQL has been named Database of the Year by the international portal DB-Engines. It demonstrated the best growth in popularity and maintained its leadership among over 400 systems studied. PostgreSQL topped the ranking for the fifth time — previously leading in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2023. DB-Engines measures the popularity of databases by analyzing […]
The release of Linux Mint 22.1 has been announced, continuing the development branch based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but significantly differs in its approach to user interface organization and the selection of default applications. The Linux Mint developers provide a desktop environment that adheres to the classic desktop organization standards, which is more familiar to users who do not adopt new methods […]
Google has released version 132 of its web browser Chrome. Concurrently, the stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in that it includes Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected content (DRM), an automatic update system, constant Sandbox isolation, delivery of keys to Google API, and transmission of RLZ parameters […]
Hello, LOR! A new version of the amazing project OpenZFS, which implements the ZFS file system, has been released. Originally, ZFS was developed by Sun under the name Zettabyte File System (later shortened to just ZFS) and has been shipped with Solaris OS since 2005. After Sun was acquired by Oracle, the Solaris source code was closed. The OpenZFS project was founded as a fork of the last […]
In the upcoming Fedora 42 release, scheduled for late April, all Live builds of the distribution are planned to be switched from SquashFS to the EROFS file system, support for which was implemented last year in the Dracut 103 tool for creating boot images. The proposal has not yet been approved by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora's development. Reasons for the transition […]
The Rsync file synchronization utility has been updated to fix six critical vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities could be exploited with merely an anonymous connection to a Rsync server with read access. Fixed vulnerabilities include: CVE-2024-12084 - an out-of-bounds write via an incorrect checksum exceeding 16 bytes. CVE-2024-12085 - leakage of uninitialized data from the stack […]
The developers of Linux Mint have announced the release of version 22.1, codenamed 'Xia'. The system has LTS (Long Term Support) status with support until 2029. The distribution is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and runs on the Linux 6.8 kernel. The update to the package management system Aptkit replaces aptdaemon for package management. Captain combines the functionalities of GDebi and apturl. This update has improved localization and reduced […]
After a month of development, version 3.48.0 of the compact embedded database SQLite, written in C and distributed as public domain, has been released. Change log: Revised the configure script used for building SQLite from source code to fix bugs, improve performance, and enhance maintainability of the code. This does not affect the configure script in the sqlite3-autoconf-NNNNNNN.tar.gz archive, for which the build system does not […]
Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.41.3, 2.42.4, 2.43.6, 2.44.3, 2.45.3, 2.46.3, v2.47.2 and 2.48.1 have been published, correcting two vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-50349 — a potential information spoofing issue in the interactive password prompt for the repository. The problem is caused by insufficient host name validation, allowing character encoding in %xx format (URL Encoding). An attacker could use the percent […]
Linus Torvalds intended to release the Linux kernel 6.13 this Sunday, but testing of the 6.13 branch will likely be extended by a week due to stability issues in the changes made by a Microsoft employee and accepted into the 6.13 branch in November. It is also noted that the patch causing the crash was submitted non-standardly — but was accepted, despite not receiving any […]
On January 10, after more than a year of development, the release of version 1.15 of the XML parsing library pugixml was announced. Written in C++, this library is distributed under the MIT license. It provides a rich DOM-like interface with extensive features for navigating and modifying document nodes. XPath 1.0 is also supported along with full Unicode support, including automatic encoding conversions. pugixml can be configured for use without std […]