Author: ProHoster

Vulnerabilities in Redis, Ghostscript, Asterisk and Parse Server

Several recently identified dangerous vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24834 is a vulnerability in the Redis database management system that can cause a buffer overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries when executing a specially crafted Lua script. The vulnerability could potentially lead to remote code execution on the server. The issue has been present since Redis 2.6 and is fixed in releases 7.0.12, 6.2.13, and 6.0.20. As a bypass […]

Firefox 116 will remove the about:performance interface

The developers at Mozilla have decided to remove the "about: performance" service page, which allows you to track the CPU load and memory consumption created by processing various pages. The decision is driven by the introduction since the release of Firefox 78 of a similar in-purpose "about:processes" interface that duplicates the functionality of "about:performance" but is seen as more user-friendly and provides more information. For example, the "about:processes" page does not show […]

Pale Moon Browser 32.3 Release

The release of the Pale Moon 32.3 web browser has been published, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide higher performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are generated for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classical organization of the interface, without switching to […]

Oracle Linux will continue to maintain compatibility with RHEL

Oracle has announced its readiness to continue maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its Oracle Linux distribution, despite Red Hat's restriction of public access to the source texts of RHEL packages. Losing access to the reference source packages increases the likelihood of compatibility issues, but Oracle is prepared to address these issues if they affect customers. […]

GIMP 2.99.16 graphics editor release

The release of the GIMP 2.99.16 graphics editor is available, which continues the development of the functionality of the future stable branch of GIMP 3.0, in which the transition to GTK3 was made, native support for Wayland and HiDPI was added, basic support for the CMYK color model was implemented (late binding), a significant cleaning of the code base was carried out, new API for plugin development, implemented rendering caching, added support for multi-layer selection […]

Release of OpenRGB 0.9, a toolkit for controlling the RGB lighting of peripherals

After 7 months of development, the release of OpenRGB 0.9, an open toolkit for controlling the RGB lighting of peripherals, has been released. Package supports ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI motherboards with RGB subsystem for case lighting, ASUS, Patriot, Corsair and HyperX backlit memory modules, ASUS Aura/ROG, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro and Gigabyte Aorus graphics cards, various controllers LED strips (ThermalTake, […]

Imagination used the Zink driver to support OpenGL 4.6 on their GPUs

Imagination Technologies has announced the support for the OpenGL 4.6 graphics API in its GPUs, implemented using the open source Zink driver developed in the Mesa project repository. Zink provides an implementation of OpenGL on top of Vulkan to enable hardware-accelerated OpenGL on devices that only support the Vulkan API. Zink's performance is close to that of native OpenGL implementations, enabling hardware […]

Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0 distribution release

Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution kit for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released the Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0 distribution kit. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a turnkey solution for quickly creating a system for monitoring mail traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For […]

The openKylin 1.0 distribution kit developed by the largest Chinese companies is presented

The release of the independent Linux distribution openKylin 1.0 has been introduced. The project is being developed by the China Electronic Corporation with the participation of more than 270 different Chinese organizations, educational institutions, research centers, software and hardware manufacturers. Development is carried out under open licenses (mainly GPLv3) in repositories hosted on gitee.com. Ready installation builds of openKylin 1.0 are generated for X86_64 (4.2 GB), ARM and RISC-V architectures in […]

Online event for those interested in open firmware

Today at 9 pm Moscow time, the XNUMXth international online event "virtPivo" will take place, where you can learn more about the world of open firmware, such as adapting CoreBoot for new AMD hardware, as well as interesting open hardware, such as Nitrokey hardware security keys . The first part of the event, a little more niche "Dasharo User Group (DUG)" - is dedicated to the Dasharo […]

The Sourcegraph project switched from an open license to a proprietary one

The Sourcegraph project, which develops an engine for navigating through source texts, refactoring and searching in code, starting from version 5.1, abandoned development under the Apache 2.0 license in favor of a proprietary license that prohibits replication and sale, but allows copying and changing during development and testing. Initially, the release note for Sourcegraph 5.1 stated that the open […]

LXD will be developed by Canonical separately from the Linux Containers project

The Linux Containers project team that develops the LXC isolated container toolkit, the LXD container manager, the LXCFS virtual file system, the distrobuilder image build toolkit, the libresource library and the lxcri runtime, announced that the LXD container manager will henceforth be separately developed by Canonical. Canonical, which is the creator and main developer of LXD, after 8 years of development as part of Linux Containers, […]