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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of Wine 9.9 and Wine Staging 9.9

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An experimental release of the open-source Win32 API implementation — Wine 9.9 has occurred. Since the release of version 9.8, 38 bug reports have been closed and 246 changes have been made. Key changes include: ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) library support has been ensured with the WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows) mode, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run in 64-bit Unix systems. Improved CPU detection has been implemented on ARM architecture platforms. Additionally […]

trurl 0.13

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On May 15, the 0.13 release of the trurl console utility, written in C using the libcurl library, was announced. The utility is designed for parsing and other manipulations with URLs. trurl — is a tool in the spirit of tr, but for URLs: $ trurl —url https://www.linux.org.ru/help/rules.md —get ‘{path}’ /help/rules.md $ trurl —url https://www.linux.org.ru —append path=forum https://www.linux.org.ru/forum Changelog: freeing allocated memory when […]

The OpenSSH project separates sshd into multiple executables

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OpenSSH developers have begun separating sshd into several standalone executables. The first step involved adding a change to the OpenSSH codebase that extracts the sshd-session process, which handles session management tasks. The sshd process retains functions responsible for accepting network connections, checking configurations, loading host keys, and managing processes according to the MaxStartups parameter. As such […]

Second Beta of Android 15

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Google has released the second beta version of the open mobile platform Android 15. The release of Android 15 is expected in the third quarter of 2024. A pre-testing program has been proposed to evaluate new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 7/7a/7 Pro, Pixel 8/8 Pro, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet devices, as well as for certain smartphones and tablets from […]

7-Zip 24.05

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After five months of development, version 24.05 of the 7-Zip library and command-line utility has been released, written in C and C++, designed for working with 7z archives and many others. Change log: support for extracting ZSTD format archives (custom implementation, ~115 KB); support for extracting ZIP, SquashFS, and RPM archives that use ZSTD compression; support for a fast algorithm […]

Neovim 0.10

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A new version of the Vim fork (which, in turn, traces back to Vi) – Neovim – has been released. Key changes include: a new improved default color theme; the ability to invoke diagnostic messages from the LSP with a key press; code block commenting, previously provided by the vim-commentary plugin, is now a built-in feature; various improvements to the built-in terminal, such as: output synchronization, hyperlink recognition support […]

Release of XWayland 24.1.0, a component for running X11 applications in Wayland environments.

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The release of XWayland 24.1.0 is available, a DDX component (Device-Dependent X) that enables running the X.Org Server for executing X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. Main changes: Added support for Explicit Sync technology, which allows informing the Wayland-based compositor about frame output readiness, which can be used to reduce delays and eliminate graphics rendering artifacts. […]

Release of Tails distribution 6.3 and Tor Browser 13.0.15.

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The release of the specialized Tails 6.3 distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian 12 package base and equipped with the GNOME 43 desktop, intended for anonymous browsing. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic over the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. For storing user data in […]

whisper.cpp 1.6.0

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On May 15, version 1.6.0 of the high-performance automatic speech recognition system whisper.cpp was released, implementing the Whisper model from OpenAI in C and C++, and distributed under the MIT license. Change log: added the —flash-attn option to speed up data processing on devices with CUDA and Metal; higher performance on ppc64 architecture; fixed a regular expression processing error in the console utility example […]

SSID Confusion Attack, allowing for Wi-Fi network spoofing

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A group of researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) discovered an architectural vulnerability (CVE-2023-52424) in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard, allowing users to connect to a less secure wireless network instead of the trusted one they intended to connect to, which can then facilitate traffic interception and manipulation. This issue manifests in the wireless stacks of any operating systems and affects WPA3, WEP authentication methods, […]

An EXT2 driver written in Rust has been proposed for the Linux kernel

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Wedson Almeida Filho from Microsoft proposed for discussion in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list a second version of patches with a set of wrappers over the VFS subsystem, aimed at developing Rust-based file systems that operate in read-only mode. Along with the wrappers, two drivers implementing file systems based on them were published […]

Rocky Linux 9.4 has been released

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Gradually, a few days ago, version 9.4 of the Rocky Linux project was released — a distribution organized by Gregory Kurtzer in response to the discontinuation of classic CentOS releases and the shift to CentOS Stream. Gregory Kurtzer, being a developer of CentOS, decided to start anew and launched the Rocky Linux project, which was intended to do everything that CentOS used to do, but now […]

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