Bloomberg news agency announced the creation of the FOSS Contributor Fund, aimed at providing financial support to open projects. Once a quarter, Bloomberg staff will select up to three open source projects to receive $10 in grants. Candidates for grants can be nominated by employees of different divisions and departments of the company, taking into account their specific work. Choice […]
After nine years of work, the last UI components that used the XUL namespace have been removed from the Firefox codebase. Thus, with a few exceptions, Firefox's UI is now rendered using conventional web technologies (mostly CSS flexbox) rather than XUL-specific handlers (-moz-box, -moz-inline-box, -moz-grid, - moz-stack, -moz-popup). As an exception, XUL continues to be used to display system […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.5. Since the release of version 8.4, 21 bug reports have been closed and 361 changes have been made. Most important changes: Added support for customizing the dark WinRT theme. The vkd3d package with the Direct3D 12 implementation working through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API has been updated to version 1.7. In the IDL compiler […]
The Blender Foundation has published a release of the free 3D modeling package Blender 3.5, suitable for a variety of tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation creation and video editing . The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are generated for Linux, Windows and macOS. At the same time, a corrective release of Blender 3.3.5 was formed in the […]
The OpenMandriva project has published the release of OpenMandriva ROME 23.03, a distribution edition that uses a rolling release model. The proposed edition allows you to get access to new versions of packages developed for the OpenMandriva Lx 5 branch, without waiting for the formation of the classic distribution. ISO-images of 1.7-2.9 GB in size with KDE, GNOME and LXQt desktops that support booting in Live mode have been prepared for download. Additionally published […]
The release of the integrated development environment Qt Creator 10.0, designed to create cross-platform applications using the Qt library, has been published. Both the development of classic C++ programs and the use of the QML language are supported, in which JavaScript is used to define scripts, and the structure and parameters of interface elements are set by CSS-like blocks. Ready assemblies are formed for Linux, Windows and macOS. IN […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.23.4 has been formed, within which the development of new features continues. In the parallel maintained stable branch 1.22.x, only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made. In the future, on the basis of the main branch 1.23.x, a stable branch 1.24 will be formed. Changes include: TLSv1.3 is enabled by default. Provided a warning in case of overriding settings […]
After a year of development, the release of the Finnix 125 Live distribution is presented, which is dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of the project. The distribution is based on the Debian package base and supports only console work, but contains a good selection of utilities for the needs of the administrator. The composition includes 601 package with all kinds of utilities. The size of the iso image is 489 MB. In the new version: The package base is synchronized with the Debian repositories. […]
STC IT ROSA has released a corrective release of the freely distributed and community-developed ROSA Fresh 12.4 distribution built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Assemblies prepared for the x86_64 platform in versions with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce and without GUI have been prepared for free download. Users who already have the ROSA Fresh R12 distribution kit installed will receive the update automatically. […]
Members of the technical committee that manages the development of Ubuntu approved the adoption of the Ubuntu Cinnamon distribution, which offers the Cinnamon user environment, among the official editions of Ubuntu. At the current stage of integration with the Ubuntu infrastructure, the formation of test builds of Ubuntu Cinnamon has already begun and work is underway to organize testing in the quality control system. Barring major issues, Ubuntu Cinnamon will be among the […]
The release of the rPGP 0.10 project has been published, which develops the implementation of the OpenPGP standard (RFC-2440, RFC-4880) in Rust, providing the full set of functions defined in the Autocrypt 1.1 specification for email encryption. The most famous project using rPGP is the Delta Chat messenger, which uses email as a transport. The project code is distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. Support for the OpenPGP standard in rPGP […]
After a year of development, the release of the Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0 distribution kit, based on Gentoo and designed to equip autonomous Internet kiosks, demonstration stands and self-service terminals, has been published. The distribution boot image is 170 MB (x86_64). The base build includes only the minimum set of components needed to run a web browser (Firefox and Chrome are supported), which is stripped down in its capabilities to prevent unwanted […]
