Google announced the default support for the WebGPU graphics API and the WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) in the Chrome 113 branch, which is scheduled for release on May 2. WebGPU provides a API similar to Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D 12 for performing GPU-side operations such as rendering and computation, and also allows […]
The release of the Electron 24.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing multi-platform user applications based on Chromium, V8 and Node.js components. The significant version number change is due to updates to the Chromium 112 codebase, Node.js 18.14.0 framework, and V8 11.2 JavaScript engine. Among the changes in the new release: Changed the image size processing logic in the nativeImage.createThumbnailFromPath(path, […]
The release of the ppp 2.5.0 package has been published with the implementation of support for the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol), which allows you to organize an IPv4 / IPv6 communication channel using a connection via serial ports or point-to-point connections (for example, dial-up). The package includes the pppd background process used for connection negotiation, authentication, and network interface configuration, as well as pppstats and pppdump utility utilities. The project code is distributed under […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 112 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 […]
After nine months of development, a stable release of the protocol, interprocess communication mechanism and Wayland 1.22 libraries is presented. The 1.22 branch is API and ABI backwards compatible with the 1.x releases and contains mostly bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The Weston Composite Server, which provides code and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, is being […]
SUSE has published the third prototype of the ALP "Piz Bernina" (Adaptable Linux Platform), positioned as a continuation of the development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution. The key difference between ALP is the division of the distribution's core foundation into two parts: a stripped-down "host OS" for running on top of the hardware and an application support layer focused on running in containers and virtual machines. ALP is initially developed from […]
Owen Taylor, creator of GNOME Shell and the Pango library, and a member of the Fedora for Workstation Development Working Group, has put forward a plan for encrypting system partitions and user home directories in Fedora Workstation by default. Among the advantages of switching to encryption by default is the protection of data in case of theft of a laptop, protection against […]
The release of the FerretDB 1.0 project has been published, which allows you to replace the document-oriented DBMS MongoDB with PostgreSQL without making changes to the application code. FerretDB is implemented as a proxy server that translates calls to MongoDB into SQL queries to PostgreSQL, which allows you to use PostgreSQL as the actual storage. Version 1.0 is marked as the first stable release ready for general use. The code is written in Go and […]
The release of the graphic editor for children's creativity - Tux Paint 0.9.29 has been published. The program is designed to teach drawing to children aged 3 to 12 years. Binary builds are generated for Linux (rpm, Flatpak), Haiku, Android, macOS and Windows. In the new release: Added 15 new "magic" tools, effects and filters. For example, the Fur tool has been added to create fur, Double […]
The Tor Project and VPN provider Mullvad have unveiled Mullvad Browser, a privacy-focused web browser that is being developed jointly. Mullvad Browser is technically based on the Firefox engine and includes almost all the changes from the Tor Browser, with the main difference being that it does not use the Tor network and sends requests directly (a variant of the Tor Browser without Tor). Mullvad Browser is supposed to be […]
The Qt Company has published a release of the Qt 6.5 framework, in which work continues to stabilize and increase the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.5 provides support for Windows 10+, macOS 11+, Linux platforms (Ubuntu 20.04, openSUSE 15.4, SUSE 15 SP4, RHEL 8.4 /9.0), iOS 14+, Android 8+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY and QNX. Source code for Qt components […]
The release of the uutils coreutils 0.0.18 toolkit is available, within which an analogue of the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in the Rust language, is being developed. Coreutils comes with over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on […]
