Oracle has released version 9.1 of its Oracle Linux distribution, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 and fully binary-compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images of 9.2 GB and 839 MB have been made available for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Unrestricted and free access to the yum repository is open for Oracle Linux 9 […]
The release of media player VLC 3.0.18 has been announced, addressing four vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to execute code when processing specially crafted files or streams. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-41325) could lead to a buffer overflow when loading via a vnc URL. The other vulnerabilities, which occur while handling files in mp4 and ogg formats, are likely to be exploited only […]
Developers of the openSUSE project have announced increased hardware requirements in the openSUSE Factory repository and the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution based on it, which utilizes a rolling release cycle for software updates. Package builds in Factory will be conducted for the x86-64-v2 architecture, while official support for x86-64-v1 and i586 architectures will be discontinued. The second version of the x86-64 microarchitecture is supported by processors approximately […]
The Live edition of the Salix 15.0 distribution has been released, providing a bootable working environment that does not require installation on a disk. Changes made during the current session can be saved to a separate area of a USB drive to continue working after a reboot. The distribution is developed by the creator of Zenwalk Linux, who left the project due to conflicts with other developers advocating for a policy of maximum similarity to Slackware. Salix 15 is fully compatible with Slackware […]
Cisco has introduced a new major release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.0.0. This new branch is notable for its shift to traditional release numbering 'Major.Minor.Patch' (instead of 0.Version.Patch). The significant version change is also due to modifications in the libclamav library that break ABI-level compatibility due to the removal of the namespace CLAMAV_PUBLIC, changes to argument types in the cl_strerror function, and the inclusion of symbols into the namespace for […]
Alexander Larsson, the creator of Flatpak, working at Red Hat, has presented a preliminary version of patches implementing the Composefs filesystem for the Linux kernel. The proposed filesystem resembles Squashfs and is also suitable for mounting images in read-only mode. The differences come down to providing efficient shared storage of contents from multiple mounted disk images in Composefs and supporting […]
After nearly a year of development, a new release of OpenRGB 0.8, an open toolkit for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices, has been published. The package supports motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI with RGB subsystems for case lighting, memory modules with lighting from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair, and HyperX, ASUS Aura/ROG graphics cards, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro, and Gigabyte Aorus, various LED strip controllers […]
The developers of the Nitrux project have introduced new releases of components used to build the interface in the Maui DE (Maui Shell) user environment. Maui DE forms a set of applications called Maui Apps, the Maui Shell interface, and the MauiKit framework for building user interfaces that offer ready-made templates for interface elements. The development also utilizes the Kirigami framework, which is developed by the KDE community and serves as an extension over […]
The release of Rocky Linux 9.1, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can replace the classic CentOS, has been announced. This release is marked as ready for production deployment. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.1 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31 […]
The third major release of the Wasmer project, which develops a runtime for executing WebAssembly modules that can be used to create universal applications capable of running on different operating systems, as well as for the isolated execution of untrusted code, has been presented. The project’s code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. The ability to run a single application across different platforms is achieved through compilation […]
The release of the Nuitka 1.2 project, which develops a compiler for translating Python scripts into C code representation that can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython for maximum compatibility with CPython (using CPython’s built-in tools for object management), is now available. Full compatibility is ensured with the latest releases of Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3 – 3.10. Compared to […]
The release of the zeronet-conservancy project 0.7.8, which continues the development of the decentralized, censorship-resistant ZeroNet network, has taken place. In this network, websites are created using Bitcoin addressing and verification mechanisms combined with BitTorrent distributed delivery technologies. The content of the websites is stored in a P2P network on visitors' machines and is verified using the owner's digital signature. This fork was created after the original developer of ZeroNet disappeared and aims to maintain and […]