Collabora announced the implementation of ARM Mali GPU support based on the V10 microarchitecture in the PanVK driver, which provides support for the Vulkan graphics API. The changes, which have already been accepted into the main branch of the Mesa project, enable the use of open drivers on systems with ARM Mali-G610 and Mali-G310 GPUs. However, it is noted that the support is still quite raw, as the driver itself […]
After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 23 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 23), with the open project OpenJDK being used as the reference implementation. Aside from the removal of some deprecated features, Java SE 23 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform—most previously written Java projects will run without changes under […]
Since the number of support modes in the Linux kernel for mitigating CPU vulnerabilities has reached 15, and enumerating all vulnerabilities in the kernel command line has become quite complex, a kernel developer from AMD has suggested transitioning from configuring locks for specific vulnerabilities to selecting locks for attack vectors. The locking methods are proposed to be activated based on the type of isolation violation: between user […]
The latest release of the Linux kernel 6.11 is out, featuring several significant changes, the most important of which include: Added support for atomic block-level write operations where either the entire specified set of blocks is written to the storage or none of the blocks are. This can prevent situations where, after a hardware failure or for some other reason, only a portion of the blocks is written, while in another […]
On September 14, a patch release 3.7.5 of the libarchive library was made, fixing many bugs and vulnerabilities. The library and accompanying utilities are written in C and distributed under the New BSD license. Vulnerability fixes: multiple vulnerabilities identified through Microsoft SAST; cpio: possible (fuzz test) overflow of signed 64-bit intermediate values gid/uid/size/ino when parsing AFIO archive files (a type of CPIO); lzop: preventing integer […]
The president of the C++ Alliance announced work on a specification that adds memory safety extensions to the C++ language, reminiscent of features implemented in Rust. Sean Baxter, author of the experimental C++ compiler Circle, which develops ideas for enhancing C++ code security on the compiler side without using garbage collection, has been engaged for the project […].
Amazon has announced the establishment of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, governed by the Linux Foundation, which will oversee further development of the OpenSearch project, a fork of the Elasticsearch data search, analysis, and storage platform, along with the Kibana web interface. It is noted that transitioning OpenSearch to an independent neutral platform, not controlled by individual companies, will attract new contributors to the development and enhance the project's appeal […].
After 6 months of development, the release of FreeBSD 13.4 has been published, marking the first release formed under the updated development cycle that includes interim releases every six months. Installation images for FreeBSD 13.4 have been created for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) have been prepared […].
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of Linux kernel 6.11. Among the most notable changes are: support for atomic block-level write operations, support for bind() and listen() operations in io_uring, a new mechanism for locking software interrupt handlers, the ability to write to memory-mapped executable files, support for writing block device drivers in Rust, optimization of getrandom() calls, and a new […].
On September 10, the release of Unicode character encoding standard 16.0 took place. This version added 5,185 new characters, including: 3,995 additional Egyptian hieroglyphs; seven new scripts (Tulu, Albanian Todri, Garay (Senegal), Sunwar Genticha, Gurung, Kirat, and Olonali); seven new emoji symbols; over 700 characters from obsolete computing. Currently, the standard contains 154,998 characters and 168 scripts […]
The release of Nextcloud Hub 9 has been announced, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration among enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. Simultaneously, the underlying cloud platform, Nextcloud 30, has been published, enabling the deployment of a cloud storage system with synchronization and data sharing capabilities, allowing viewing and editing data from any device anywhere on the network (with […]
On September 13, without fanfare or drumroll, the latest, fifth beta version of Haiku OS was released. However, its compatibility with BeOS R5 now remains only within the framework of 32-bit builds. Currently, the hardware requirements are traditionally modest — Minimum (32-bit): Intel Pentium II, AMD Athlon; 384MB of RAM; 800×600 screen; 3GB on disk. Recommended (64-bit): Intel Core i3, AMD […]