The release of Node.js 23.0.0, a platform for running network applications in JavaScript, has been announced. Node.js 23.0 is classified as an intermediate branch, with support provided for 7 months (until June 2025). In the coming days, the stabilization of the Node.js 22 branch will be completed, which on October 29 will receive LTS status and will be supported until April 2027. Support for previous LTS branches of Node.js […]
A new stable version of Bun – 1.1.30 has been quietly released. Bun is an ECMAScript / JavaScript runtime that is similar to nodejs in many respects. Bun is built on Apple’s JavaScriptCore, but Bun itself, like many of its modules, is written in the Zig language. Bun strives to be fully compatible with nodejs regarding command-line options and supports […]
The release of the collaborative development platform Forgejo 9.0 has been published, allowing the deployment of a system for working with Git repositories on your servers, akin to GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. Forgejo is a fork of the Gitea project, which in turn branched off from the Gogs platform. The separation of Forgejo occurred in 2022 after attempts to commercialize Gitea and the transfer of management into the hands of […]
Llama Group, which published the source code of the multimedia player Winamp in September, has removed the project repository from GitHub. The reasons for the removal are not explained, but previously the repository showed many leaks and violations of copyleft licenses. In particular, after the publication in the WinAmp repository, code from a commercial SHOUTcast server sold to another company, proprietary code, and a certificate for […]
A group of developers from China is developing the Asterinas kernel, written in Rust and intended for use in general-purpose operating systems. To simplify integration with existing system components, the kernel provides an ABI (Application Binary Interface) that is compatible with the Linux kernel and can be used as a replacement. The project's code is distributed under the MPL (Mozilla Public License). The project is evolving with […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 7.1.4 virtualization system, which includes 9 fixes: Initial support for kernel 6.12 has been added in the additions for guest systems running Linux, which is expected to be released at the end of November. Due to the transition of the KVM hypervisor to initialization immediately after loading the kernel module, a parameter must be set in the command line for starting virtual machines in VirtualBox […]
OpenSSH developers have continued the separation of sshd into several distinct executable files. In the first phase of separation implemented in May, functions related to session handling were moved from sshd into a separate process called sshd-session, leaving only the functionality necessary to accept new network connections and launch sshd-session for each new session within sshd. Yesterday, the code base of OpenSSH received […]
fooyin ("foo" from "foobar" and the Chinese "音 (yīn)" meaning "sound." It also plays on "福音 (fúyīn)" meaning "good news") is an audio player styled after Foobar2000, written in C++ using the Qt6 framework. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license. fooyin offers a wide range of customization options for management and […]
The release of the Linux distribution Solus 4.6 has been published, which is not based on packages from other distributions and develops its own installer, package manager, and configurator. Previously, the Budgie desktop was part of the distribution, but it has now been spun off into an independent project. The next branch, Solus 5, is set to be developed using the technologies of the SerpentOS distribution. The project's development code is distributed under the GPLv2 license, using programming languages […]
A corrective release of Firefox 131.0.3 is available, which addresses a vulnerability and resolves several issues: A vulnerability (CVE-2024-9936) caused by undefined behavior in the implementation of the DOM node cache related to text selection on a page has been fixed. This vulnerability is marked as critical and can lead to crashes when handling certain content. Issues that caused the Bill Pay service to cease functioning have been resolved […]
A new version of the Firefox port for the Haiku operating system is available for testing, which operates relatively stably and even allows browsing some websites. However, this build has its share of issues, such as the inability to copy and paste text via the clipboard, some JavaScript scripts running very slowly, and pop-ups not displaying correctly upon the first opening […]
Google has added to the codebase of the Android platform a Terminal application that allows you to launch a terminal emulator with access to a full Linux environment running in a virtual machine. The virtualization functionality is developed as part of the Ferrochrome project and implies running a guest system with Debian GNU/Linux 12. The virtualization framework AVF (Android Virtualization Framework), implemented in Android 13, is used for this purpose […]