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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

The Portmaster 1.0 application firewall has been published.

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The release of Portmaster 1.0 has been announced, an application for managing a firewall that provides access blocking and traffic monitoring at the level of individual programs and services. The project’s code is written in Go and is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. The interface is implemented in JavaScript using the Electron platform. It is compatible with both Linux and Windows. In Linux, traffic inspection and management is performed using specific tools.

The Static Linux distribution has been prepared, formatted as an image for UEFI.

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A new Static Linux distribution has been prepared, based on Alpine Linux, musl libc, and BusyBox, and is notable for being delivered as an image that runs from RAM and can be booted directly from UEFI. The image includes the JWM window manager, Firefox, Transmission, and data recovery utilities such as ddrescue, testdisk, and photorec. Currently, 210 packages have been statically assembled, but this number will increase in the future […]

Release of the GNU Taler payment system 0.9, developed by the GNU project.

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After a year of development, the GNU project has released the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 0.9, which provides anonymity for buyers while allowing seller identification to ensure transparent tax reporting. The system does not track where users spend their money but provides means to track incoming funds (the sender remains anonymous), addressing inherent issues with BitCoin […]

A vulnerability in the Pixman library, used for rendering in many open projects

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A corrective release of the Pixman library 0.42.2 has been published, which is used for low-level graphics rendering in many open projects, including X.Org, Cairo, Firefox, and composite managers based on the Wayland protocol. The new version fixes a dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2022-44638) that leads to a buffer overflow when processing pixel data with parameters that can cause integer overflow. Researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit, […]

Release of BK 3.13.2211.10133, emulator BK-0010-01, BK-0011 and BK-0011M

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The release of project BK 3.13.2211.10133 is now available, developing an emulator for 16-bit home computers BK-0010-01, BK-0011, and BK-0011M that were produced in the 1980s, which are command compatible with PDP-11 computers, SM EVM, and DVK. The emulator is written in C++ and is distributed in source code. The general license for the code is not explicitly stated, but LGPL is mentioned in some files, and […]

Lennart Pöttering proposed modernizing the partitioning schema for bootable partitions.

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Lennart Pottering continued to publish ideas on reworking components for loading Linux and reviewed the situation regarding the duplication of boot partitions. There was discontent with the use of two disk partitions with different file systems for initial boot organization, which are mounted nested — the /boot/efi partition based on VFAT file system with EFI firmware components (EFI System Partition) and the /boot partition based on ext4 file system, […]

Release of ROSA Fresh 12.3 distribution

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The NT Center for IT ROSA has released a corrective update for the freely distributed and community-developed ROSA Fresh 12.3 distribution, built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Builds for free download have been prepared for the x86_64 platform in versions with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce, and without a GUI. Users who already have the ROSA Fresh R12 distribution installed will receive the update automatically. […]

Firefox 106.0.4 update

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A corrective release of Firefox 106.0.4 is now available, which has fixed several issues: crashes during video playback with digital rights management (DRM), inability to fill in the date input field when dynamically changing the field type from date to datetime-local, and crashes when playing multimedia content. A few days ago, release 106.0.3 was also formed which fixed two […]

New release of 9front, a branch of the Plan 9 operating system

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A new release of the 9front project is now available, within which the community has been developing an independent fork of the distributed operating system Plan 9 since 2011, separate from Bell Labs. Ready installation builds have been prepared for the i386, x86_64 architectures and Raspberry Pi 1-4 boards. The project's code is distributed under the open Lucent Public License, based on the IBM Public License, but differing in the lack of a requirement […]

Mozilla is creating its own venture fund

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Mark Surman, the head of the Mozilla Foundation, announced the creation of Mozilla Ventures, a venture fund that will invest in startups promoting products and technologies aligned with Mozilla's ideals and manifesto. The fund will begin operating in the first half of 2023, with an initial investment size of at least 35 million dollars. Among the values that startup teams should share, […]

The first release of Angie, a fork of Nginx by developers who left F5.

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The first release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server, Angie, has been published by a group of former developers from the Nginx project who left F5 Networks. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. To support the development of the project and continue supporting Nginx users in Russia, a company called 'Web Server' has been created, which received an investment of 1 million dollars. Among the co-owners of the new company are: Valentin […]

Report on the funding of the Tor project

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The non-profit fund overseeing the development of the anonymous Tor network has published its financial report for the 2021 fiscal year (from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021). During the reporting period, the project's funding amounted to 7.4 million dollars (compared to 4.8 million in the 2020 fiscal year). Approximately 1.7 million dollars was earned through the sale of […]

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