Author: Yuri Gagarin

The Forgejo project has initiated the development of a fork of the collaborative development system Gitea.

Within the Forgejo project, a fork of the collaborative development platform Gitea has been established. The reason for this is the rejection of attempts to commercialize the project and concentrate management in the hands of a commercial company. According to the creators of the fork, the project should remain independent and belong to the community. Forgejo will continue to adhere to the previous principles of independent governance. On October 25, the founder of Gitea (Lunny) and one of the active participants (techknowlogick) without […]

Release Wine 7.22

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.22 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.21, 38 bug reports have been closed and 462 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: In WoW64, the layer for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows, system call (thunk) converters for Vulkan and OpenGL have been added. The OpenLDAP library has been included in the main build, compiled in the format […]

The SerpentOS toolkit is available for testing.

After two years of work on the project, the developers of the SerpentOS distribution announced the availability of testing for the core toolkit, which includes: the package manager moss; the container system moss-container; the dependency management system moss-deps; the build system boulder; the service hiding system avalanche; the repository manager vessel; the control panel summit; the database moss-db; and the reproducible bootstrapping system bill. A public API and package recipes are available. […]

The twenty-fourth firmware update for Ubuntu Touch

The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after its original developer Canonical withdrew, has released OTA-24 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 update is available for smartphones BQ E4.5/E5/M10/U Plus, Cosmo Communicator, F(x)tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google […]

Docker Hub has identified 1,600 malicious container images

Sysdig, which develops the open-source toolset for system performance analysis, has released the findings of a study involving over 250,000 Linux container images hosted on Docker Hub without any indication of being verified or official images. As a result, 1,652 images were classified as malicious. Among them, 608 images contained components for cryptocurrency mining, while 288 had access tokens (155 including SSH keys, and […]

Release of Zulip 6 messaging platform

Zulip 6 has been released, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and developer groups. The project was initially developed by Zulip and was open-sourced after being acquired by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. Client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]

Release of Terminal Access System LTSM 1.0

A set of programs for organizing remote desktop access LTSM 1.0 (Linux Terminal Service Manager) has been released. This project is primarily intended for organizing multiple virtual graphical sessions on a server and serves as an alternative to the Microsoft Windows Terminal Server family of systems, enabling the use of Linux on client systems and on the server. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under […]

Release of Multimedia Library SDL 2.26.0

The release of SDL 2.26.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has been announced, aimed at simplifying the development of games and multimedia applications. The SDL library provides features such as hardware-accelerated output of 2D and 3D graphics, input handling, sound playback, output of 3D through OpenGL/OpenGL ES/Vulkan, and many other related operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the Zlib license. To utilize SDL capabilities […]

Introduced the Stable Diffusion 2.0 image synthesis system.

Stability AI has released the second edition of the Stable Diffusion machine learning system, capable of synthesizing and altering images based on a provided template or natural language text description. The code for the tools used to train the neural network and generate images is written in Python using the PyTorch framework and is published under the MIT license. Pre-trained models are available under a permissive license […]

The release of the Redox OS 0.8 operating system, written in Rust

The release of Redox OS 0.8 has been announced, developed using the Rust language and a microkernel concept. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT open-source license. Demonstration builds of Redox OS, sized 768 MB, as well as images with a basic graphical environment (256 MB) and command-line tools for server systems (256 MB), are available for testing. Builds are designed for the x86_64 architecture and can be downloaded […]

A vulnerability in the io_uring subsystem that leads to privilege escalation

A vulnerability (CVE-2022-3910) has been identified in the implementation of the asynchronous input/output interface io_uring, included in the Linux kernel since version 5.1, which allows an unprivileged user to execute code with kernel privileges. The issue manifests in versions 5.18 and 5.19 and has been fixed in version 6.0. Debian, RHEL, and SUSE are using kernel versions up to 5.18, while Fedora, Gentoo, and Arch already offer kernel 6.0. […]

Valve has released Proton 7.0-5, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has released the Proton 7.0-5 project version, built on the code base of the Wine project, aimed at enabling Linux users to run Windows gaming applications available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Windows-only gaming applications to be launched directly on the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation […]

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