The Firefox 110 web browser has been released. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch, 102.8.0, has been formed. The Firefox 111 branch, which is scheduled for release on March 14, will soon be transferred to the beta testing stage. Key innovations in Firefox 110: Added the ability to import bookmarks, browsing history and passwords from Opera, Opera GX and Vivaldi browsers (previously […]
The KDE Plasma 5.27 custom shell release is available, built using the KDE Frameworks 5 and the Qt 5 library using OpenGL/OpenGL ES for faster rendering. You can evaluate the work of the new version through a Live build from the openSUSE project and a build from the KDE Neon User Edition project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. Release 5.27 will be […]
The release of the Wolvic 1.3 web browser, designed for use in augmented and virtual reality systems, has been published. The project continues the development of the Firefox Reality browser, previously developed by Mozilla. After the stagnation of the Firefox Reality codebase under the Wolvic project, its development was continued by Igalia, known for its participation in the development of such free projects as GNOME, GTK, WebKitGTK, Epiphany, GStreamer, Wine, Mesa […]
After a year of development, the Dino 0.4 communications client has been released, supporting chat, audio calls, video calls, video conferencing, and text messaging using the Jabber/XMPP protocol. The project code is written in the Vala language using the GTK toolkit and distributed under the GPLv3+ license. For […]
Qualys found a way to bypass malloc and double-free protection to initiate a handoff to code using a vulnerability in OpenSSH 9.1 that was determined to be unlikely to create a working exploit. At the same time, the possibility of creating a working exploit is still a big question. The vulnerability is caused by a double freeing of a memory area at the pre-authentication stage. To create conditions for the manifestation of […]
Microsoft announced the implementation of support for hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), a layer for running Linux applications on Windows. The implementation makes it possible to use hardware acceleration of video processing, encoding and decoding in any applications that support VAAPI. Acceleration is supported for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA graphics cards. GPU-accelerated video running with WSL […]
Mozilla removed the Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on from its addons.mozilla.org (AMO) catalog, which had 145 users, without prior notice or disclosure of reasons. According to the author of the add-on, the reason for the removal was a complaint that the add-on violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In the future, the add-on will not be able to be restored in the Mozilla catalog, so […]
After a year of development, the release of the free PCB design computer-aided design system KiCad 7.0.0 has been published. This is the first major release since the project was taken over by the Linux Foundation. Builds are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS. The code is written in C++ using the wxWidgets library and distributed under the GPLv3 license. KiCad provides tools for editing electrical circuits […]
Google plans to add telemetry collection to the Go language toolkit and enable sending the collected data by default. The telemetry will cover command-line utilities developed by the Go language development team, such as the "go" utility, the compiler, the gopls and govulncheck applications. The collection of information will be limited only to the accumulation of information about the features of the utilities, i.e. telemetry will not be added to user […]
A stable release of the interface is available to simplify network settings - NetworkManager 1.42.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are developed within their own development cycles. Main new features of NetworkManager 1.42: The nmcli command-line interface provides support for configuring an authentication method based on the IEEE 802.1X standard, which is widely used to secure corporate wireless networks and […]
Google has introduced the first test version of the open mobile platform Android 14. Android 14 is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2023. To evaluate the new features of the platform, a preliminary testing program has been proposed. Firmware builds are prepared for Pixel 7/7 Pro, Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, and Pixel 4a (5G) devices. Android 14 Key New Features: Continued work to improve […]
GitHub intends to cut about 10% of the company's staff in the next five months. Additionally, GitHub will not renew office leases and will only switch to remote work of employees. The cuts were also announced by GitLab, which will lay off 7% of its employees. The reason given is the need to cut costs amid the global economic downturn and the transition of many companies to […]
