The Rust Foundation has announced the start of a public discussion regarding a new draft of the trademark usage rules associated with the Rust programming language and the Cargo package manager. The new draft incorporates comments and criticisms raised during the previous year's initial attempt to adopt the Rust trademark rules. It is claimed that the rules, which are aimed to be approved by the end of the year, target […]
The release of version 8.11.0 of the console utility and library curl, written in C and distributed under the curl license, has been announced. Key changes include: fixing the CVE-2024-9681 vulnerability; support for -create-dirs with the -dump-header option; support for P12 format for GnuTLS; added options to disable IPFS; support for TLSv1.3 earlydata (with GnuTLS); official support for WebSocket (previously experimental); dynamic detection of ECH support; support for -show-headers with […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee, responsible for the development of internet protocols and architecture, has completed the formulation of the RFC for the BPF command set architecture and has published the associated specification under the identifier RFC 9669. The RFC has received 'Proposed Standard' status, after which work will begin to elevate the RFC to Draft Standard status, which effectively means full stabilization and consideration of all expressed […]
The release of the open webOS Open Source Edition 2.27 platform has been introduced, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and in-car information and entertainment systems. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with development overseen by a community following a collaborative development model. Key changes in the new release include the browser […]
The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.3 has been formulated, implemented as a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic changes to the packet filter rules via D-Bus, without the need to reload the packet filter rules and without terminating established connections. The project is already in use in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
The Manjaro Linux team has begun testing the MDD (Manjaro Data Donor) service to collect user data and send it to the project's external server. Initially, it was planned that this feature would be enabled by default, but this decision met with objections from other maintainers of the project. According to current information, telemetry will appear as an option requiring user consent upon first […]
After six months of development, the release of the LXQt 2.1.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been announced, continuing the advancement of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface follows the principles of classic desktop organization but brings a modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly environment, incorporating the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is available at […]
The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151052 distribution, based on the Illumos project developments, has been announced. This version continues the enhancement of the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and the basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing full support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used to build scalable web systems, […]
The developers of the FFmpeg project have announced the implementation of new assembler optimizations, which have accelerated certain operations used in video decoding thanks to the use of the AVX-512 instruction set. The performance gain of the assembler code with AVX-512 instructions was 94, 44, 64, and 4.24 times compared to the baseline implementation written in C without using SIMD instructions. The assembler code with optimizations on […]
The release of Lime3DS version 2119 has taken place. Lime3DS is a fork of the Citra emulator (the same team that developed Citra also created Yuzu), which was discontinued in March 2024. Lime3DS is a Nintendo 3DS emulator, natively available on Windows, Android, Linux, macOS, and chromeOS. New features include initial support for Pretendo (an equivalent to XLink Kai for multiplayer Nintendo Wii games […]
The ratarmount (random access tar mount) program is designed for mounting archive files into the file system and allows for mounting not only tar files (compressed with bz2, gz, xz, or zstd) but also zip and rar files via FUSE. The new release 1.0.0 is available for installation from pip and AppImage. There are several features that distinguish ratarmount from the existing archivemount. In the first […]
The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, have announced the start of testing a new service called MDD (Manjaro Data Donor), designed to collect system statistics and send them to the project's external server. The author of MDD intended to include telemetry submission by default (opt-out), but this decision has not yet been finalized, and judging by the objections […]