The Qt Company has released the Qt 6.4 framework, continuing the work on stabilizing and enhancing the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.4 supports platforms Windows 10+, macOS 10.15+, Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8.2, openSUSE 15.3, SUSE 15 SP2), iOS 14+, Android 6+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, and QNX. The source code of the Qt components […]
Developers of the decentralized communication platform Matrix have warned of critical vulnerabilities found in the matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk, and matrix-android-sdk2 libraries, which allow server administrators to impersonate other users and read messages in end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats. The vulnerabilities are caused by errors in specific implementations of the Matrix protocol and are not issues with the protocol itself. Currently, the project has released updates for the problematic SDKs […]
The release of the web browser Pale Moon 31.3 has been published, which forks from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher efficiency, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization without […]
Google has released the web browser Chrome 106. Simultaneously, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash reporting system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update system, constant Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google APIs, and passing through […]
Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed for Linux kernel developers to consider releasing version 10 of the components for device driver development in Rust. This is the eleventh edition of the patches, taking into account the first version published without a version number. Linus Torvalds has approved the inclusion of Rust support in Linux kernel 6.1, provided no unforeseen issues arise. The development is funded […]
Fedora Linux developers have disabled the use of VA-API (Video Acceleration API) for hardware acceleration of video encoding and decoding in H.264, H.265, and VC-1 formats in the default Mesa package shipped with the distribution. This change will be included in Fedora 37 and will affect configurations using open-source video drivers (AMDGPU, radeonsi, Nouveau, Intel, etc.). It is expected that the change will also be backported to the Fedora branch […]
The Linux kernel 6.0, which is expected to be released next Monday, includes a change that addresses performance issues in systems with AMD Zen processors. The source of the performance drop was code added 20 years ago to work around a hardware problem present in some chipsets. The hardware issue has long been resolved and does not affect current chipsets, but the old workaround was forgotten and became […]
The Wine project has released version 1.5 of the vkd3d package, featuring Direct3D 12 implementation that operates through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libraries libvkd3d with Direct3D 12 implementations, libvkd3d-shader with the translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions for simplifying the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration examples, including the port of glxgears […]
The LeanQt project has begun developing a trimmed-down branch of Qt 5, aimed at simplifying the build from source and integration with applications. LeanQt is being developed by Rochus Keller, the author of a compiler and development environment for the Oberon language, tied to Qt 5, with the aim of simplifying the compilation of his product with minimal dependencies while maintaining support for current platforms. […]
After twenty months of development, a new version of the GNU Bash command interpreter 5.2 has been released, which is the default in most Linux distributions. At the same time, the release of the readline library 8.2 has been announced, used in bash for managing command line editing. Key improvements include: The code for parsing command substitution (command substitution, the replacement of output from another command execution, for example, '$(command)') has been rewritten […]
The developers of the OpenBSD project have introduced a new release of the Got (Game of Trees) version control system, focusing primarily on simplicity of design and use. Got stores versioned data in a repository compatible with the disk format of Git repositories, allowing interaction with the repository using both Got and Git tools. For example, Git can be used to perform operations […]
After nearly two years of development, the release of the independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.7 has been finalized, which has been developed since 2001 under the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) concept and is aimed at experienced users. The goal of the project is to create a simple and transparent distribution for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, with a maximally simplified structure and relatively few ready-made […]