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Chrome Release 113

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 113 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, always turning on Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and passing […]

In Chrome, it was decided to remove the padlock indicator from the address bar

With the release of Chrome 117, scheduled for September 12, Google plans to modernize the browser interface and replace the secure data indicator shown in the address bar in the form of a padlock with a neutral “settings” icon that does not evoke security associations. Connections established without encryption will continue to display the "not secure" indicator. The change emphasizes that security is now the default state, […]

OBS Studio 29.1 Live Streaming Release

OBS Studio 29.1, the streaming, compositing and video recording suite, is now available. The code is written in C/C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are generated for Linux, Windows and macOS. The development goal of OBS Studio was to create a portable version of the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Classic) application that is not tied to the Windows platform, supports OpenGL and is extensible through plugins. […]

APT 2.7 package manager now supports snapshots

An experimental branch of the APT 2.7 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been released, on the basis of which, after stabilization, a stable release 2.8 will be prepared, which will be integrated into Debian Testing and will be included in the Debian 13 release, and will also be added to the Ubuntu package base. In addition to Debian and its derivative distributions, the APT-RPM fork is also used in […]

Introduced KOP3, a repository for RHEL8 that complements EPEL and RPMForge

A new kop3 repository has been prepared offering additional packages for RHEL8, Oracle Linux, CentOS, RockyLinux and AlmaLinux. The goal of the project is to prepare packages for programs that are not in the EPEL and RPMForge repositories. For example, the new repository offers packages with programs tkgate, telepathy, rest, iverilog, gnome-maps, gnome-chess, GNU Chess, gnome-weather, folks-tools, gnote, gnome-todo, djview4 and […]

Release of SVT-AV1 1.5 video encoder developed by Intel

The release of the SVT-AV1 1.5 (Scalable Video Technology AV1) library with implementations of the encoder and decoder of the AV1 video encoding format has been published. The project was created by Intel in partnership with Netflix in order to achieve a level of performance suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and use in services that […]

Cisco has released a free antivirus package ClamAV 1.1.0

After five months of development, Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.1.0. The project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, which develops ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The 1.1.0 branch is categorized as regular (non-LTS) with updates posted at least 4 months after […]

Release of the rendering system OpenMoonRay 1.1, developed by the Dreamworks studio

Animation studio Dreamworks has released the first update to OpenMoonRay 1.0, an open-source rendering engine that uses Monte Carlo numerical integration ray tracing (MCRT). MoonRay focuses on high performance and scalability, supports multi-threaded rendering, parallelization of operations, the use of vector instructions (SIMD), realistic lighting simulation, ray processing on the GPU or CPU side, realistic lighting simulation on […]

Valve has released Proton 8.0-2, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has published an update to the Proton 8.0-2 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and is aimed at running gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]

Mozilla bought Fakespot and intends to integrate its developments into Firefox

Mozilla has announced it has acquired Fakespot, a startup that develops a browser add-on that uses machine learning to detect fake reviews, inflated ratings, fraudulent sellers, and fraudulent discounts on marketplace sites such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Sephora, and Best Buy. The add-on is available for Chrome and Firefox browsers, as well as for iOS and Android mobile platforms. Mozilla plans […]

VMware Releases Photon OS 5.0 Linux Distribution

The release of the Photon OS 5.0 Linux distribution has been published, aimed at providing a minimalistic host environment for running applications in isolated containers. The project is being developed by VMware and is claimed to be suitable for deploying industrial applications, including additional security enhancements, and offering advanced optimizations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute, and Google Compute Engine environments. Source texts […]

Debian 11.7 update and second release candidate for the Debian 12 installer

The seventh corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, which includes the accumulated package updates and fixes bugs in the installer. The release includes 92 stability updates and 102 security updates. Of the changes in Debian 11.7, we can note the update to the latest stable versions of clamav, dpdk, flatpak, galera-3, intel-microcode, mariadb-10.5, nvidia-modprobe, postfix, postgresql-13, […]