The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland) and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab, USA), which once developed the Scientific Linux distribution but later switched to CentOS, have announced the selection of AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for supporting experiments. This decision was made due to changes in Red Hat's policy regarding CentOS support and the premature termination of support […]
The release of Deepin 20.8 has been announced, based on the package base of Debian 10, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 40 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, installer, and application center Deepin Software Center. The project is founded by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. […]
The Blender Foundation has released the free 3D modeling package Blender 3.4, suitable for various 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 have been created for Linux, Windows, and macOS. At the same time, a corrective release Blender 3.3.2 has been formed in the branch […]
A significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 12.0 has been created, which has transitioned to the Firefox 102 ESR branch. The browser focuses on providing anonymity, security, and privacy; all traffic is routed only through the Tor network. It is impossible to connect directly through the current system's standard network connection, which prevents tracking the user's actual IP address (in case the browser is hacked, attackers may gain access […]
The developers of the gccrs project (GCC Rust) have released the fourth edition of patches implementing the frontend of the Rust language compiler for GCC. It is noted that this new edition addresses nearly all comments previously raised during the review of the proposed code, and the patches meet all technical requirements for code added to GCC. Richard Biener, one of the maintainers of GCC, mentioned that the code now […]
Amazon has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims. By joining OIN, the company has demonstrated its commitment to collaborative innovation and non-aggressive patent management. Amazon considers Linux and open-source software key factors in driving innovation within the company. It is noted that the aim of Amazon joining OIN is to strengthen […]
After two and a half years of development, a significant release of the ProFTPD FTP server 1.3.8 has been published, with strengths in extensibility and functionality, but weaknesses due to the periodic discovery of critical vulnerabilities. Additionally, a patch release of ProFTPD 1.3.7f is available, which will be the last in the ProFTPD 1.3.7 series. Key innovations in ProFTPD 1.3.8 include the implementation of support for the FTP command CSID (Client/Server ID), which can be used to send information […]
The release of the Armbian 22.11 Linux distribution has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. Debian package repositories are used to build the images […]
The release of FreeBSD 12.4 has been announced. Installation images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments like Amazon EC2 have been prepared. FreeBSD 12.4 will be the last update for the 12.x branch, which will be supported until December 31, 2023. An update for FreeBSD […] will be prepared in the spring.
The release of the PoCL 3.1 project (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) has been announced, which develops the implementation of the OpenCL standard, independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers and allowing for the use of various backends to execute OpenCL kernels on different types of graphics and central processors. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. It supports operation on X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU, NVIDIA GPU platforms, and various specialized […]
The release of the FerretDB 0.7 project has been published, allowing for the replacement of the document-oriented database MongoDB with PostgreSQL without changing application code. FerretDB is implemented as a proxy server, translating MongoDB queries into SQL requests to PostgreSQL, enabling the use of PostgreSQL as the actual storage. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The need for migration may arise due to […]
Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-41034) has been identified in the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor, allowing for code execution when a user opens a link crafted by an attacker. Code can be executed both on the computer with VS Code and on any other computers connected to VS Code using the ‘Remote Development’ feature. This issue poses the greatest danger to […]