PipeWire is a multimedia server designed for real-time output and processing of audio and video streams. Clients are compatible with the PulseAudio, JACK, and ALSA APIs. The new version is the first RC for version 1.0. Key changes include default support for jackdbus and improvements to IRQ-based scheduling in ALSA, which is also enabled by default for the profile […]
Daggerfall Unity is an open implementation of the Daggerfall engine with a native version for GNU/Linux on the Unity3D engine. The source code is distributed under the MIT license. On October 12, the Release Candidate Daggerfall Unity 0.16.1 was released. This release includes several bug fixes in localization and patches. Daggerfall Unity is no longer in beta; in fact, all functionality has been implemented, and no new features are planned. […]
Shortly after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, users encountered issues downloading the desktop edition builds of the distribution, which were removed from the boot servers due to the emergency replacement of installation images. The replacement was prompted by an incident in which a vandal succeeded in inserting offensive anti-Semitic expressions and profanity into the installer translation files into Ukrainian. An investigation has been initiated to determine how […]
The release of the Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' distribution has been published, classified as an interim release, with updates being formulated over a 9-month period (support will be provided until July 2024). Ready installation images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin (the edition for China), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. Key […]
The release of P2P VPN 0.11.3 has taken place—an implementation of a decentralized virtual private network that operates on a Peer-To-Peer basis, where participants are connected to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can find each other via a BitTorrent tracker or BitTorrent DHT, or through other participants in the network (peer exchange). The application is a free and open-source alternative to VPN Hamachi, written in […]
The results of an independent security audit of the open caching proxy server Squid, conducted in 2021, have been published. During the review of the project’s codebase, 55 vulnerabilities were identified, of which 35 issues remain unaddressed by the developers (0-day). The Squid developers were notified about the problems two and a half years ago but have not completed their remediation. […]
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have released a significant new version of the Raspberry Pi OS 2023-10-10 (Raspbian) distribution, based on the Debian package base. Three builds have been prepared for download: a minimal version (435 MB) for server systems, a desktop version (1 GB), and a full version with an additional set of applications (2.7 GB). About 35,000 packages are available for installation from the repositories. Key […]
The Qt Company has released Qt framework version 6.6, continuing to stabilize and expand the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.6 provides support for platforms including Windows 10+, macOS 11+, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, openSUSE 15.4, SUSE 15 SP4, RHEL 8.6/9.0), iOS 14+, Android 8+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, and QNX. The source code for Qt components […]
Another release of curl, the utility and library for transferring data over the network, has occurred. Over 25 years of development, curl has implemented support for many network protocols, such as HTTP, Gopher, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, SMB, and MQTT. The libcurl library is used by important community projects such as Git and LibreOffice. The project code is distributed under the Curl license (variant […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545) has been identified in the curl utility for data retrieval and transmission over networks, and in the parallel developing libcurl library, which can lead to buffer overflow and potentially allow for the execution of the attacker's code on the client side when the curl utility or an application using libcurl interacts with a malicious HTTPS server. This issue manifests only when the curl […]
Information has been released about five vulnerabilities in the libX11 and libXpm libraries developed by the X.Org project. The issues have been resolved in the libXpm 3.5.17 and libX11 1.8.7 releases. Three vulnerabilities were identified in the libX11 library, which provides client-implemented features of the X11 protocol: CVE-2023-43785 — a buffer overflow in the libX11 code that occurs during the processing of a response from the X server with a number of characters that do not match […]
The release of the classic toolkit for managing the iptables packet filter 1.8.10 has been published, with recent development focusing on components for maintaining backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, which provide utilities with the same command line syntax as in iptables and ebtables but translate the received rules into nftables bytecode. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables, is […]