The release of the desktop-oriented MidnightBSD 4.0 operating system, based on FreeBSD with elements ported from DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, has occurred. The base desktop environment is built on Xfce (optionally, a GNUstep + Window Maker + GWorkspace combo can be installed). Unlike other desktop distributions of FreeBSD, MidnightBSD initially evolved as a fork of FreeBSD 6.1-beta, which was synchronized in 2011 […]
After a year and a half of development, the Xiph.Org organization, which creates free video and audio codecs, has released the Opus 1.6 audio codec, ensuring high-quality encoding and minimal latency both for compressing high-bitrate streaming audio and for compressing voice in bandwidth-limited VoIP applications. The reference implementation of the encoder and decoder is distributed under the BSD license. Full specifications […]
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo has been appointed the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Anthony joined Mozilla from his role as Director of Product at Roofstock and served as Senior Vice President of Firefox since December 2024. His responsibilities included overseeing the development of Firefox and business growth related to Firefox. Prior to his appointment […]
The content delivery network Cloudflare, which handles approximately 20% of the world's web traffic, has published its annual report with statistics and analysis of global internet trends for the year 2025. The most interesting findings include: In 2025, global internet traffic increased by 19%, with the most significant traffic growth starting in August. In comparison, the traffic growth in 2024 was 17.2%. The share of web browsers: […]
The release of the free layout package for document design Scribus 1.6.5 has been announced. The package provides tools for professional print material layout, includes tools for PDF generation, and supports working with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is written using the Qt toolkit and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Ready-made binary builds are prepared for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
The CA/Browser Forum, which serves as a platform for collaborative decision-making considering the interests of browser vendors and certificate authorities, has approved new requirements for organizations issuing certificates for HTTPS. These new requirements declare eleven methods of domain ownership verification, for which certificates are issued, as deprecated. Support for deprecated methods will be phased out by March 2028. The reasons for this cessation […]
The release of the Ventoy 1.1.09 toolkit has been announced, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program allows you to boot OS from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without requiring image unpacking or media reformatting. You just need to copy the desired set of images to a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will facilitate the booting of the operating systems contained within the images. In […]
The release of the uutils coreutils 0.5.0 (Rust Coreutils) project has been announced, which develops an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on platforms such as Windows, Redox […]
Vulnerabilities have been found in the smb4k utility, used in KDE for discovering and mounting SMB shares, allowing for root access to the system. These issues have been addressed in the Smb4K 4.0.5 release. You can check the status of the new package version or the preparation of a fix in the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE/openSUSE, Gentoo, Arch, and FreeBSD. KAuth handlers are used in smb4k to perform privileged actions, which are initiated […]
An analysis of the accuracy of the claimed locations of exit nodes by VPN providers has been conducted. Of the 20 tested VPN providers, only 3 consistently provided correct information about the countries of exit nodes. 6 providers reported virtual (unverified during testing) or unmeasurable (countries from which no traffic was recorded) data about the country in more than 50% of cases, while 3 providers reported such data in 30% […]
A new rule has been added to the GNOME Shell extension development guidelines, banning the publication of extensions generated using AI tools. The project will no longer accept extensions that show signs of AI usage for code generation, such as nonsensical code insertions, style inconsistencies, contrived API usage, and comments hinting at AI. The reason for the new requirements is the increased occurrence of […]
The release of the Mir 2.25 display server has been announced, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Mir provides a set of libraries for creating composite servers […]