Linus Torvalds announced the seventh release candidate for the Linux kernel 6.13 and suggested sending a guitar pedal he personally assembled to one of the kernel developers. Linus mentioned that he has a hobby of soldering small electronic devices that are neither too complex nor too simple. Effects pedals for electric guitar play perfectly into that […]
After a year of development, the Enlightenment 0.27 user environment has been released, based on the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) and Elementary widget set. The release is available in source code without ready-made builds. A change list for the 0.27 release has not been formed; only a list of commits is available, mainly detailing bug fixes and minor improvements in the widgets. The desktop […]
On January 4, after more than five months of development, version 2.6.0 of the GCLI console utility was released. Written in C and distributed under the BSD-2 license, the utility is designed to interact with the APIs of several popular Git project hosting services, allowing users to create, view, and manage issues, pull requests, and comment on them; check the status of CI and pipelines, […]
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and owner of Automattic, has banned the accounts of four participants (Joost, Karim, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen — mainly marketers and SEO specialists) in the wordpress.org directory for promoting ideas about creating a fork of WordPress and changing the governance model in the community. Matt stated that he welcomes the creation of a fork and blocked the accounts to give him […]
Version 2.48 of the distributed version control system Git has been released. Written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, the list of major changes includes: A new configuration variable remote..serverOption behaves the same way as if the option --serverOption= had been specified from the command line. The git rebase --rebase-merges command now uses branch names as labels where possible. The commands […]
The Debian project is pleased to announce the ninth update of the Debian Bookworm distribution. This update aims to fix security issues and improve the stability of the distribution. It affects 110 packages, of which 72 received stability fixes, and 38 received security fixes. These fixes are already included in the installation images available on the download page. Systems installed previously do not […]
The ninth point release of the Debian 12 distribution has been formed, which includes accumulated package updates and adds fixes to the installer. The release features 72 updates addressing stability issues and 38 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 12.9 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as ansible, intel-microcode, nvidia-graphics-drivers, qemu, systemd, and tzdata. The criu packages have been removed […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.48 has been published. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for nonlinear development based on branch branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to 'backdated' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, along with digital signatures verifying individual tags and commits by developers. Git code […]
On January 9, after three months of development, the release of version 3.0.12 of the fast cross-platform library Notcurses was announced. It is designed for creating text user interfaces, written in C and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It includes bindings for C++ (C++17 standard). Optional integration with OpenImageIO, FFmpeg, libgpm, and libqrcodegen is also supported. Changelog: Fixed bugs when using the library […]
The team of developers behind the Qwen language models has launched a web version of the chat, where users can try out their models, which were previously available for download and use by anyone, such as from the Qwen AI site or Hugging Face. For example, there is a model with 72 billion parameters. Qwen is developed by the Chinese company Alibaba Cloud. Regarding the chat - here are its features: it supports Russian […]
In the upcoming Fedora 42 release, scheduled for late April, it is proposed to allow maintainers to include additional versions of executables in packages built with optimizations for x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4 microarchitectures. It is noted that Fedora continues to build packages for the x86-64-v1 architecture, while CentOS uses x86-64-v2 architecture for builds, and RHEL 10 uses x86-64-v3. In most cases […]
On January 4, after more than two years of development, the stable release of the cross-platform 2D CAD LibreCAD version 2.2.1 was announced. It is written in C++ using the Qt framework and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license. Key changes include: Added experimental parabolic creation. Support for right-to-left writing systems has been added (further work is required on numbers). The display of the hatch area in the dialog has been added […]