After 14 months of development, the release of the GNU inetutils 2.5 suite has been completed, featuring a collection of network programs, most of which have been ported from BSD systems. In particular, it includes inetd and syslogd, servers and clients for ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, tftp, and talk, as well as common utilities like ping, ping6, traceroute, whois, hostname, dnsdomainname, ifconfig, logger, and more […]
The developers of the Gentoo Linux distribution, originally focused on creating an environment using source code compilation, have announced the introduction of a repository for pre-built binary packages. The Portage package manager has long supported the installation of binary packages, but until now, these packages have been provided selectively — it was assumed that the distribution primarily disseminates metadata for compilation, but […]
A corrective release of the Exim mail server 4.97.1 is available, which includes changes to protect against the SMTP Smuggling attack, allowing a single message to be split into multiple different messages through the use of a non-standard sequence for separating emails. Initially, it was thought that the issue only affected postfix and sendmail, but it was later discovered that it also impacts Exim (CVE-2023-51766). Exim can handle […]
The recently released Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 office suite includes fixes for four vulnerabilities without much fanfare (information was disclosed a few days after the release, and details about the vulnerabilities were not mentioned in the change log initially): The CVE-2023-1183 vulnerability allows for data to be written to an arbitrary file in the system, depending on the access rights, when opening specially crafted OBD (Office Binder […]
Bruce Perens, one of the authors of the Open Source definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, believes that the Open Source paradigm has reached a point where open licenses no longer provide adequate protection and that it is time to create a revised concept of Post-Open Source, which will help harmonize the relationships between open source developers and commercial companies.
The results of the general resolution voting by Debian developers involved in package maintenance and infrastructure support have been published, confirming the text of a statement expressing the project's position regarding the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) bill being promoted in the European Union. The bill introduces additional requirements for software manufacturers aimed at encouraging the maintenance of security, disclosure of incident details, and more.
The Linux Foundation has published its annual report, which states that 270 new members joined the organization in 2023, and the number of projects overseen by the organization reached 1,133. Over the year, the organization generated $263.6 million in revenue and spent $269 million. Compared to last year, expenses for kernel development fell by nearly $400,000. The overall share of...
The AlmaLinux project, which develops a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has announced the formation of additional builds based on AlmaLinux versions 9.3 and 8.9. Live builds have been updated for these versions with user environments including GNOME (standard and mini), KDE, MATE, and Xfce, as well as images for Raspberry Pi platforms, containers (Docker, OCI, LXD/LXC), virtual machines (Vagrant Box), and cloud platforms...
A corrective release of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 office suite is now available, which includes 14 fixes. Ready packages have been prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Among the changes in the new version: In Calc, a crash preventing documents from being saved in ODS format in non-Latin alphabet builds has been fixed. In Calc, an issue causing formula misalignment when moving...
On December 26, a remix of the Fedora distribution was released, specifically designed for gaming and streaming. This version of Nobara is based on Fedora 39. Notably, the project is led by GloriousEggroll from the Proton-GE project. Now, the default build is based on KDE Plasma, whereas the previous release primarily used GNOME. Additional builds with Gnome are also available. This version also includes: updates to the compositor […]
In the document viewer Xreader, being developed by the Linux Mint distribution team, two vulnerabilities have been identified that could allow an attacker to execute code by opening specially crafted files in EPUB and CBT formats. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in updates Xreader 4.0.0, 3.8.5, 3.6.6, 3.2.3, and 2.6.5. The vulnerabilities were caused by coding errors in parsing EPUB and CBT formats. In the case of […]
The release of the Nobara 39 distribution has been announced, based on the Fedora Linux 39 package base and including additional fixes that address known issues encountered when launching computer games, streaming, and performing content creation tasks. Six installation images have been prepared for download: the official version with KDE (3.6 GB), additional versions with GNOME (3.5 GB) and KDE (3.5 GB), as well as […]