The developers of the Arch Linux distribution have warned users that they will be moving the infrastructure for developing packages from Subversion to Git and GitLab from May 19 to 21. On migration days, publication of package updates to the repositories will be suspended and access to primary mirrors will be limited using rsync and HTTP. After the migration is completed, access to SVN repositories will be closed, […]
System76, which develops the Linux distribution Pop!_OS, has published a report on the development of a new edition of the COSMIC user environment, rewritten in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on the GNOME Shell). The environment is developed as a universal project that is not tied to a specific distribution and conforms to Freedesktop specifications. The project also develops the cosmic-comp composite server based on Wayland. To build an interface […]
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology have published the LTESniffer toolkit, which allows you to passively (without sending signals on the air) organize listening and intercepting traffic between a base station and a cell phone in 4G LTE networks. The toolkit provides utilities for organizing traffic interception and an API implementation for using the LTESniffer functionality in third-party applications. LTESniffer provides physical channel decoding […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-28936) has been fixed in the Apache OpenMeetings web conferencing server that could allow access to random posts and chat rooms. The problem has been assigned a critical severity level. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect validation of the hash used to connect new participants. The bug has been present since the 2.0.0 release and was fixed in the Apache OpenMeetings 7.1.0 update released a few days ago. Besides, […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.8. Since the release of version 8.7, 18 bug reports have been closed and 253 changes have been made. The most important changes: Implemented initial support for loading ARM64EC modules (ARM64 Emulation Compatible, used to simplify porting to ARM64 systems of applications originally written for the x86_64 architecture by providing the ability to run in […]
The release of the DXVK 2.2 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires Vulkan 1.3 API-enabled drivers such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The release of the D8VK 1.0 project has been released, offering an implementation of the Direct3D 8 graphics API that works through call translation to the Vulkan API and allows using Wine or Proton to run 3D applications developed for Windows and games tied to the Direct3D 8 API on Linux. The project code is written in C++ language and distributed under the Zlib license. As a basis for […]
Lighttpd 1.4.70, a lightweight http server, has been released, trying to combine high performance, security, standards compliance, and customization flexibility. Lighttpd is suitable for use on highly loaded systems and aims for low memory and CPU consumption. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the BSD license. Main changes: In mod_cgi, the launch of CGI scripts has been accelerated. Provided experimental build support for […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have published the financial report for 2022. During the year, the project received donations in the amount of $6.4 million ($2019 million was raised in 1.5, $2020 million in 2.3, and $2021 million in 2.8), which allows it to successfully develop independently. The project costs amounted to $3.569 million ($2020 million in 1.5, […]
The release of the programming language Julia 1.9 has been published, combining such qualities as high performance, support for dynamic typing and built-in tools for parallel programming. The syntax of Julia is close to MATLAB, with some elements borrowed from Ruby and Lisp. The string manipulation method is reminiscent of Perl. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Key features of the language: High performance: one of the key goals of the […]
The Firefox 113 web browser has been released and an update to the long-term support branch, 102.11.0, has been formed. The Firefox 114 branch has been moved to the beta testing stage and is scheduled for release on June 6th. Major new features in Firefox 113: Enabled displaying the entered search query in the address bar instead of showing the search engine URL (i.e. keys are shown in the address bar not only in […]
Vulnerabilities have been identified in the Linux kernel subsystems Netfilter and io_uring that allow a local user to elevate their privileges in the system: the operation of the nftables packet filter. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending specially crafted requests to update the nftables configuration. An attack requires […]
