After seven months of development, a major update of the Comentario comment server 3.0.0 has been released. Comentario is a fast and powerful free comment server for web pages, written in Go and Angular. It originally emerged as a fork of Commento, a popular comment server that is now abandoned. Notable changes in the new version include a completely redesigned database structure and support for PostgreSQL versions 10 […]
A vulnerability has been discovered in the graphapi plugin application: the URL "owncloud/apps/graphapi/vendor/microsoft/microsoft-graph/tests/GetPhpInfo.php" becomes accessible. This address calls the phpinfo function, revealing PHP configuration details. This information includes all web server environment variables. If installed in a container, these variables may contain sensitive data such as the ownCloud administrator password, mail server credentials, and other information. All system administrators […]
Red Hat has announced the plan to discontinue support for the X.org server in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 distribution. Initially, the X.org Server was declared deprecated and set for removal in a future RHEL branch a year ago in the RHEL 9.1 release notes. The ability to run X11 applications in a Wayland session enabled by the XWayland DDX server will be preserved. The first release of the branch […]
After six months of development, the stable release of the Weston 13.0 compositing server has been published, advancing technologies that facilitate full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions […]
According to Tom’s Hardware, the construction of China’s first commercial underwater data center, UDC Hainan, is ongoing. The data center is located off the coast of Sanya City (Hainan Island). The companies involved in the project installed the first module in April, and last Friday, the Highlander team (HiCloud Data Center Technology) submerged another block into the sea. This is not the only underwater data center in China, as there are others [...]
The release of the Delta Chat 1.42 messenger is now available, operating without specialized servers and using email as its transport (chat-over-email, a specialized email client that functions as a messenger). The application code is distributed under the GPLv3 license, while the core library is available under the MPL 2.0 license (Mozilla Public License). The release is available on Google Play and F-Droid, as well as in builds for Linux (AppImage, pacman, [...]
Users of the cloud storage service 'Google Drive' have encountered issues with accessing their files. There are reports of both complete file disappearance from the cloud service and loss of access to files, along with other problems related to the cloud storage. Currently, Google is investigating the incident and trying to resolve the issue, and recommends that affected users refrain from making any changes [...]
After a long silence, Paru has been updated — a wrapper for pacman with AUR integration. The update includes many significant changes, primarily important for advanced users. PKGBUILD Repositories The main feature of this release is the ability to integrate PKGBUILD repositories that are not based on AUR. You can now add them in paru.conf: [repo_name] Url = https://path/to/git/repo Then synchronize using paru -Sy —pkgbuilds. You can also […]
Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: In the corrective release of Perl 5.38.1, a vulnerability (CVE-2023-47038) has been fixed that could lead to writing one byte out of bounds of the allocated buffer when processing compiled regular expressions with an incorrectly redefined internal Unicode property with a name starting with “utf8::perl”. The issue appears starting from Perl 5.30. Additionally, Perl 5.38.1 has addressed a platform-specific […]
The third release of the Incus project has been announced, in which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the original development team behind LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It should be noted that the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to independently develop LXD as an enterprise […]
The Document Foundation has announced the synchronization of the Android application LibreOffice Viewer with the current codebase of LibreOffice and the placement of this app in the Google Play catalog. LibreOffice Viewer is a lighter version of LibreOffice for Android smartphones and tablets for viewing documents in open document formats (.odt, .ods, .odp) and Microsoft Office (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx). LibreOffice Viewer also features experimental […]
Finally, the long-awaited first major version of PipeWire has been released, a multimedia server and framework designed for real-time audio output and processing. It maintains API and ABI compatibility with ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK. While the changes are not numerous, they are significant (after all, this is the first release version). Key changes: Fixed a memory leak in memfd/dmabuf when unloading buffers during […]