Author: Yuri Gagarin

The first release of Thunderbird for Android, continuing the development of K-9 Mail

The first stable release of the Thunderbird email client for Android has been introduced, built using technologies acquired after merging with the K-9 Mail project. Thunderbird for Android is version 8.0, continuing the version numbering of K-9 Mail. All native features of K-9 Mail are supported, including email encryption using OpenPGP, handling multiple accounts, and the availability of both dark and light themes […]

Release of the TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 distribution for creating network storage

iXsystems has released the TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 distribution, which uses a Linux kernel and a Debian package base (previous products from this company, including TrueOS, PC-BSD, TrueNAS, and FreeNAS, were based on FreeBSD). Like TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS), TrueNAS SCALE can be downloaded and used free of charge. The size of the ISO image is 1.4 GB. The source code specific to the TrueNAS SCALE build […]

Firefox 132

Firefox 132 is now available. Among the new features in this release: Linux: The ability to open downloaded files in programs installed via Flatpak has been established. In strict tracking protection mode, all cookies from third-party sites are now blocked. Support for the TLS key exchange algorithm mlkem768x25519 (a combination of X25519 ECDH and ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber), resistant to brute-force attempts both in standard and […]

Wasmer 5.0 is now available, a toolkit for building applications based on WebAssembly

The release of Wasmer 5.0 has been announced, enhancing the runtime for executing WebAssembly modules that can be used to create universal applications capable of running across different operating systems. Wasmer can also be employed for the isolated execution of untrusted code blocks within regular applications. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. The ability to run a single application […]

Sway 1.10

After a year of development, a major version of the Wayland compositor and tiling window manager Sway 1.10 has been released. New capabilities following the transition to Wlroots 0.18: the rendering code has been rewritten using the new scene graph API from Wlroots, enhancing performance; a recovery mechanism after GPU resets has been implemented; a command for applying ICC profiles to specific outputs has been added. New protocols: support for the tearing-control-v1 protocol has been added […]

Intel NPU driver for Linux is now available in the Snap Store

Canonical has released the official Intel NPU driver for Linux in the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU driver in Snap format consolidates various components, including firmware, user-space driver, and compiler, along with an application for driver verification and the compiler. In other words, the driver includes everything needed to utilize AI inference accelerators embedded in the latest […]

X.Org Server 21.1.14 update addressing a vulnerability

Corrective releases of X.Org Server 21.1.14 and the device-dependent X (DDX) component xwayland 24.1.4 have been published, providing the execution of X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions address a vulnerability (CVE-2024-9632) that can be exploited to escalate privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution in configurations […]

AlmaLinux has become the 7th Linux distribution recommended by Microsoft for Azure

Microsoft has announced the inclusion of AlmaLinux among the Linux distributions officially recommended for use in Azure cloud environments. The announcement also mentioned that over 60% of client systems in Azure use Linux in their environments (the 50% mark was surpassed in 2018). In addition to AlmaLinux, the list of approved distributions includes Ubuntu, Debian, Flatcar Container Linux, Oracle […]

Fedora Linux 41 Release

The release of Fedora Linux 41 has been unveiled. Products prepared for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and live builds provided as spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, and Sway. Builds are available for x86_64, Power64, and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. […]

Trinity R14.1.3

On October 27, the developers of the Trinity desktop environment, which continues the development of KDE3 and Qt3 as a separate fork TQt, announced the release of the maintenance update number 14.1.3. Trinity DE (TDE) is positioned as a free graphical environment with low system requirements and extensive customization options. Alongside the desktop environment, a comprehensive set of applications based on the TQt library is included. […]

Firefox 132 Release

The release of the web browser Firefox 132 has occurred, along with updates to previous long-term support branches — 115.17.0 and 128.4.0. The Firefox 133 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for November 26. Key innovations in Firefox 132 include enhanced tracking protection (ETP) in strict mode and the opening of pages in private mode […]

The Flock project was founded as a fork of the Flutter framework.

The Flock project has been introduced, creating a fork of the Flutter user interface framework, which is developed by Google under a BSD license. The fork was initiated by Matt Carroll, a former Google employee who was part of the Flutter development team. The fork's creation is attributed to the insufficient resources that Google invests in the project. The core development team is being expanded […]

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