The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' has been announced. After the creation of this version, the package base has been fully frozen, and the developers have moved on to final testing and bug fixing. This release, categorized as an interim release with updates planned for the next 9 months, is scheduled for October 10. Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.18 has been published. Since the release of 9.17, 18 bug reports have been closed and 274 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: A new backend for enabling the Media Foundation framework, based on the use of FFmpeg. Initial support for network sessions has been implemented in the DirectPlay API. A new Desktop Control Panel applet has been added […]
The release of the high-performance HTTP server and multiprotocol proxy server Angie 1.7.0, forked from Nginx by a group of former developers who left F5 Networks, has been published. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. The project has received compatibility certificates with Russian operating systems, such as Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt, and the FSTEC versions of Alt. The development is supported by the company 'Web Server', which was formed […]
Fooyin is an audio player created in Qt6 in the style of Foobar2000. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is licensed under GNU GPL 3. Fooyin offers a wide range of customization options for managing and playing your music collection. It can be extended with plugins and the FooScript language. Sound playback is supported by FFmpeg along with several output options, [...]
The release of OpenSSH 9.9, an open implementation of the client and server for operation over SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, has been announced. Major changes include: Support for the hybrid key exchange algorithm 'mlkem768x25519-sha256' has been added to ssh and sshd. This algorithm is resistant to quantum computer attacks and represents a combination of X25519 ECDH and the ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) algorithm, which was recently standardized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 17.2, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 package base, has been presented. The target audience for this distribution is beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and it includes a collection of applications similar to those that […]
The latest release of Apache NetBeans has been introduced – an integrated development environment that supports programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and others. This IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. In this release: improved support for Gradle and Maven build systems; enhanced support for Java and PHP languages; and much more. Download Source: linux.org.ru
Version 2.25.0 of the cross-platform console utilities fastfetch and flashfetch has been released, written in C and distributed under the MIT license. These utilities are designed to display system information. They support Linux, Android, FreeBSD, macOS, SunOS, and Windows 7+. Unlike fastfetch, flashfetch does not support advanced information display features. Changelog: added detection for the number of Moore GPU cores; cache size of […]
Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 9.0-3, based on the Wine codebase and aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications developed for Windows on Linux, presented in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows for the direct launch of gaming applications on the Linux Steam client that are provided exclusively for Windows. The package includes […]
Corrective updates for the GitLab collaborative development platform have been released – versions 17.3.3, 17.2.6, and 17.1.8, which fix a critical vulnerability allowing SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication bypass. The issue is caused by a vulnerability (CVE-2024-45409) in the Ruby libraries ruby-saml and omniauth-saml, which implement the client side of SAML authorization. The vulnerabilities have been assigned the maximum danger level of 10 out of 10. The issue has been resolved in the updates of the packages […]
The nxs-data-anonymizer 1.11.0 has been released – a tool for anonymizing PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB/Percona database dumps. This tool is written in Go and is released under the Apache License 2.0. It can be used through unnamed pipes in the command line to redirect a dump from the source database directly to the target database with the necessary transformations. Depending on the type of entities in the settings […]
After six months of development, the GNOME 47 desktop environment has been released. For a quick assessment of GNOME 47's capabilities, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are available. GNOME 47 is also included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. In this release: Support for accent color customization has been added, […]