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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of the GNU Wget2 web content download utility version 2.2.0

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The release of GNU Wget2 2.2.0 has been announced, which develops a rewritten and completely revamped version of the GNU Wget program for automating recursive content downloading. Wget2 provides a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows access to available functionality through the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, enables downloading only changed data, and can save data with […]

FRRouting 10.2

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A new version of FRRouting – a software package for building routers based on Linux or BSD systems – is now available. Key changes in this version include: In the built-in implementation of the multicast routing daemon pimd, message filtering for MSDP SA is now implemented, which is applied during inter-provider interactions via multicast. An automatic RP search configuration is available. Authentication through MD5 is supported in the built-in implementation of pim […]

Patches for BcasheFS were rejected due to CoC claims.

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Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs filesystem, reported that the future of his developing filesystem in the kernel is in question due to actions by the committee responsible for enforcing the code of conduct among developers (CoC Committee). Linus Torvalds refused to accept another batch of patches for Bcachefs into the 6.13 kernel branch, citing complaints from the CoC committee. After several […]

Initiative for verifying the Rust standard library

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Amazon and the Rust Foundation have introduced an initiative aimed at enhancing the security of the standard Rust language library. The goal is to verify the reliability and safety of functions that use the 'unsafe' keyword, which allows unsafe operations with memory, such as dereferencing pointers, modifying static variables, and accessing external libraries in C/C++. It is noted that currently the standard […]

GCC 15 will use the C23 standard by default

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A change has been made to the codebase for the upcoming release of the GCC 15 compiler suite scheduled for spring next year, which includes the default use of the C23 standard with GNU extensions ('-std=gnu23') when compiling programs in the C language (previously, the default standard was C17 – '-std=gnu17'). This change could potentially lead to issues when building existing projects, as […]

Wine 9.22

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On November 23, 2024, the release of the new version of the popular tool for running Windows applications on other operating systems, Wine 9.22, took place. In this version, the developers included the Wayland driver by default and introduced several significant updates and fixes. Key changes include support for virtualization of display modes. This innovation allows for improved compatibility and performance of applications running in various display modes. […]

Release of MaXX Interactive Desktop 2.2, adaptation of the IRIX desktop for Linux.

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After four years of development, the MaXX Interactive Desktop 2.2.0 has been released, which is positioned as the first alpha release of a project aiming to recreate the IRIX Interactive Desktop (SGI Indigo Magic Desktop) user interface using Linux technologies. The development is conducted under an agreement with SGI, allowing for the complete recreation of all features of the IRIX Interactive Desktop for the Linux platform. Installation instructions have been prepared […]

Wine 9.22 has been released with the Wayland driver enabled by default.

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.22 has been published. Since the release of 9.21, 19 bug reports have been closed and 313 changes made. The most significant changes include: the winewayland.drv driver is now enabled by default, allowing Wine to be used in environments based on the Wayland protocol without the need for XWayland and X11 components. Support for screen mode virtualization (emulation […

The Technical Committee of the Linux Foundation has officially announced the temporary suspension of the author of BcacheFS.

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The Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation has announced a restriction on Kent Overstreet's participation, the author of BcacheFS, in kernel development through a ban on accepting pull requests during the 6.13 release cycle. The decision was made based on the committee's recommendation, which is responsible for enforcing the code of conduct in the Linux kernel development community (CoC Committee). It has been confirmed that the reason for the suspension was the offense against Michal […]

VMware Workstation is now free for commercial use as well.

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Quietly and unexpectedly, VMware has surprised everyone. The full versions of VMware Workstation Pro (Windows, Linux) and Fusion Pro (macOS) are now completely free! No trials, no feature limitations, no microtransactions. Previously, the software was only free for personal use. Businesses, the education sector, freelancers, and developers who planned to use the software for commercial purposes had to pay for a license. But […]

lexbor 2.4.0

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On November 13, after more than a year of development, version 2.4.0 of the high-performance HTML5 and CSS parsing library lexbor, written in C without third-party dependencies and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, was released. The library is divided into modules (Core, CSS, DOM, Encoding, HTML, NS, Punycode, Selectors, Tag, Unicode, URL, Utils), which can be compiled and used separately (with the CMake option […]

PHP 8.4 - a major update to the language

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The new version includes many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric property visibility, updated DOM API, improved performance, bug fixes, and much more. Key changes include Property hooks that support computed properties, which can be understood by IDEs and static analysis tools, without the need to write DocBlock comments that may not match. Additionally, they enable reliable […]

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