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 […]
A corrective release of the Redis database management system 7.0.5 has been published, which addresses a vulnerability (CVE-2022-35951) that potentially allows an attacker to execute their code with the Redis process's permissions. The issue only affects the 7.x branch and requires access to execute queries for the attack to take place. The vulnerability is caused by an integer overflow occurring when an invalid value for the 'COUNT' parameter is specified in the 'XAUTOCLAIM' command. When used in the context of stream keys […]
The OpenAI project, which focuses on the development of publicly accessible artificial intelligence systems, has released findings related to the Whisper speech recognition system. It is claimed that for English speech, the system achieves reliability and accuracy levels in automatic recognition that are close to human recognition. The code for the reference implementation based on the PyTorch framework and a set of already trained models ready for use has been made publicly available […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.18 has been announced. Since the release of version 7.17, 20 bug reports have been closed and 252 changes have been made. The most significant changes are: Symbol tables have been updated to Unicode specification 15.0.0. Support for WoW64 has been implemented in the macOS driver, a layer for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. Issues with asynchronous reading in the implementation have been resolved […]
The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 7.2.0 has been published, featuring a server for the ONLYOFFICE online editors and facilitating collaborative work. The editors can be used for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project code is distributed under the AGPLv3 free license. At the same time, the release of the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 7.2 product has been formed, built on a unified codebase with the online editors. The desktop editors are designed as desktop applications […]
Corrective updates for stable branches of the BIND DNS server versions 9.16.33 and 9.18.7 have been released, along with a new release of the experimental branch 9.19.5. The new versions address vulnerabilities that may lead to denial of service: CVE-2022-2795 - significant performance degradation may occur when delegating large volumes, causing the server to be unable to handle requests. CVE-2022-2881 - buffer overflow during reading, […]
The developers of Arch Linux have announced the discontinuation of Python 2 packages in the project's repositories. The Python 2 branch was declared unsupported back in January 2020, but it took considerable time to gradually phase out packages tied to Python 2. Users who require Python 2 are given the option to retain the packages in the system, but […]
Microsoft has announced the implementation of the system manager systemd in Linux environments intended to run on Windows using the WSL subsystem. Support for systemd has reduced the requirements for distributions and brought the WSL environment closer to running distributions on standard hardware. Previously, distributions had to use Microsoft’s provided initialization handler to operate in WSL, […]
The release of the UbuntuDDE 22.04 (Remix) distribution has been published, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 codebase and featuring the DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) graphical interface. The project is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu, but the developers are making efforts to have UbuntuDDE included among the official Ubuntu editions. The size of the iso image is 3 GB. UbuntuDDE offers the latest release of the Deepin desktop and a set of specialized applications under development […]
After eight months of development, a stable release of the composite server Weston 11.0 has been published, advancing technologies that facilitate full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, TVs [...])
The Eclipse community has introduced the Jakarta EE 10 platform. Jakarta EE succeeds Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) following the transition of specification development processes, TCK, and reference implementation to the non-profit organization Eclipse Foundation. The platform continued to develop under its new name, as Oracle transferred only the technologies and project management, but did not hand over the rights to the Eclipse community [...])