The release of version 6.2.0 of the fast command-line text search utility ugrep has taken place. This tool is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD-3 license. Change log: improved support for the deprecated environment variable GREP_COLOR; improved Docker files; improved option autocompletion for zsh; improved search with the -% (—bool) option when specifying multiple search patterns; improved search with the -Q (—query) option in combination with options […]
Firefox 128 is now available, along with the long-term support branch (ESR 128). Despite the release of the new branch, the developers have decided to extend the support of the previous ESR release (ESR 115) indefinitely, as this is the only version that maintains support for Windows 7, which constitutes 10% of Firefox's user base. Key changes: Linux: DMABuf support has been enabled on NVIDIA graphics cards (requires driver version 545.23.6 or […]
The developers of the Hurd project have announced that it is now possible to build 71% of the Debian archive packages in the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution. Last year, this figure was 58%. Other achievements of GNU/Hurd include the porting of the Mach kernel for the AArch64 architecture and the acceptance of patches allowing the use of GCC for building GNU/Hurd programs for AArch64. Currently, the port does not yet provide all the desired […]
One of the developers of the JavaScript platform Deno, who leads the JSR.io package catalog, has pointed out discrimination in the Chromium browser engine regarding the provision of additional functionality to Google services that is not available to other sites without installing a separate extension. This concerns the built-in extension hangout_services, which is activated by default and does not appear in the lists of running extensions in the browser. The extension provides functions for receiving information […]
The release of OpenSilver 3.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Silverlight platform and allowing the creation of interactive web applications using C#, F#, XAML, and .NET technologies. Silverlight applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browsers that support WebAssembly, but compilation is currently only possible on Windows using the Visual Studio environment. The project's code is written in […
The release of web browser Firefox 128 has occurred. Firefox 128 is classified as part of the long-term support (ESR) branches, for which updates are released throughout the year. Additionally, an update for the previous long-term support branch, 115.13.0, has been formed (two more updates, 115.14 and 115.15, are expected). The Firefox 129 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for […]
Postgres Professional, the developer of the Postgres Pro DBMS, has released an update for the pg_probackup utility – an application for backing up and restoring database clusters. The new version 2.8.2 includes several important changes: it fixes a parsing error with oid, which caused databases and tablespaces with relfilenodes greater than one billion to be excluded from backups; it corrects an error including the pg_probackup log with […]
The release of the Box64 emulator 0.3.0 has been announced, designed for running Linux programs compiled for the x86_64 architecture on hardware with ARM64, RISC-V, and Loongarch64 processors. The project places a strong emphasis on running gaming applications and offers the ability to run Windows builds through wine and Proton. The source code of the project is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. A notable feature of the project is the use of hybrid […]
During the investigation of a critical vulnerability identified last week in OpenSSH, another similar vulnerability (CVE-2024-6409) allowing for remote code execution without authentication was discovered. The new vulnerability is not as dangerous as the previous one, as it manifests after privilege escalation in a forked SSH server child process. The vulnerability is present in the openssh packages from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution, […]
A new version of NethSecurity, an open-source firewall based on Linux, has been released. It features improved stability, an updated administrator management interface, and added connection tracking. The NethSecurity project, a rework of OpenWrt and successor to NethServer 7, released version 8.1 just a month after the previous major release, 8.0. This firewall is designed to simplify the deployment of network security with a straightforward installation process and […]
The release of the GDB 15.1 debugger has been announced (the first release in the 15.x series; the 15.0 branch was used for development). GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Go, Objective-C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, […
The DXVK layer, which provides an implementation of the Direct3D 9, 10, and 11 graphics API through call translation to the Vulkan API, has integrated developments from the D8VK project, which facilitates the translation of Direct3D 8 to the Vulkan API. All ongoing D8VK project developments will now be carried out within the DXVK codebase, where D8VK is organized as a backend for Direct3D 8. […