The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, community-controlled and offering certificates free of charge to anyone, has decided to discontinue support for the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), used for checking certificate revocation. Instead of OCSP, it is recommended to use Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL), published by Let’s Encrypt starting in 2022. On May 7, 2025, Let’s Encrypt […]
System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has introduced the fourth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC have been made available for testing, built on top of the alpha builds for the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 release for systems with NVIDIA (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB) GPUs. Also […]
Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-54143) have been identified in the ASU (Attended SysUpgrade) toolkit developed by the OpenWrt project, which could compromise build artifacts distributed via the sysupgrade.openwrt.org service or third-party ASU servers, enabling attackers to install modified firmware images on user systems that use the "attended upgrade" mode through the web interface selector.openwrt.org or the command-line attended.sysupgrade tool. An attacker needs only to send […]
Microsoft has released an update for Azure Linux distribution 3.0.20241203. This distribution is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project's proprietary developments are distributed under the MIT license. Package builds are created for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The installation image size is 750 MB. Among the changes in the new version: The iptables packet filter has been transitioned […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 24.2 has been published, built on the Arch Linux base and targeted at beginner users. This distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro is available as live images with graphical environments KDE (3.9 GB), GNOME (3.8 GB), and Xfce (3.5 GB), built […]
Attackers were able to execute code with GitHub Actions handler permissions in the Ultralytics Python library repository, which is used for computer vision tasks such as object detection in images and image segmentation. After gaining access to the repository, the attackers published several new releases of Ultralytics in the PyPI directory, which contained malicious changes for cryptocurrency mining. In the last month, the Ultralytics library was downloaded […]
The release of the Libreboot 20241206 firmware has been announced, which has achieved stable release status, focused on refining functionalities added in experimental releases. The project develops a workable build of the Coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and other hardware components, minimizing binary blobs. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that allows […]
Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 10.0, an open implementation of the WinAPI. The codebase has been frozen ahead of the release expected in the second half of January. Compared to the Wine 9.22 release, 17 bug reports have been closed and 311 changes made. Notable changes include: an initial version of the Bluetooth device driver added, and the integrated Vkd3d package with implementation […]
Tribler 8.0.6 has been quietly released — an open-source BitTorrent client (GPLv3), developed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). The main feature of Tribler is its built-in anonymization system for downloads, using its own TOR-like network. This release includes a plethora of long-awaited changes: complete removal of the dependency on Qt, replaced by a new web interface. The anonymization engine has been rewritten in Rust, increasing download speeds by 2–3 times. Dark/Light […]
The openSUSE project has released the atomically updated distribution openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1, designed for creating microservices and serving as a base system for virtualization platforms and container isolation. Installation builds for x86_64 and ARM64 (Aarch64) architectures are available for download, along with ready-to-use system images for virtualization systems. The openSUSE Leap Micro distribution is based on the technologies of the project […]
Google has introduced a new open project, Vanir, which develops a static analyzer for automatically detecting unapplied patches that address vulnerabilities. Vanir uses a signature database containing information about known vulnerabilities and patches to eliminate these vulnerabilities. This database has been maintained by Google since July 2020 and covers 95% of vulnerabilities in Android-related projects, including the kernel […]
Collabora has introduced the Linux distribution Apertis 2024.3, initially created for automotive devices but later repurposed for a wider range of electronic devices, embedded systems, and industrial equipment. Devices that use Apertis include the Atari VCS gaming console and the Bosch D-tect 200 scanner for detecting objects in walls. Base system images are available for x86_64 and arm64 architectures […]