Author: ProHoster

Release of zeronet-conservancy 0.7.8, platform for decentralized sites

The zeronet-conservancy 0.7.8 project has been released, continuing the development of the decentralized, censorship-resistant ZeroNet network, which uses Bitcoin addressing and verification mechanisms in combination with BitTorrent distributed delivery technologies to create sites. The content of sites is stored in a P2P network on visitors’ machines and is verified using the owner’s digital signature. The fork was created after the disappearance of the original developer ZeroNet and aims to maintain and […]

The Forgejo project started developing a fork of the Gitea co-development system

As part of the Forgejo project, a fork of the Gitea collaborative development platform was founded. The reason given is the non-acceptance of attempts to commercialize the project and the concentration of management in the hands of a commercial company. According to the fork creators, the project should remain independent and belong to the community. Forgejo will continue to adhere to its previous principles of independent management. On October 25, the founder of Gitea (Lunny) and one of the active participants (techknowlogick) without […]

Wine 7.22 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.22 - took place. Since the release of version 7.21, 38 bug reports have been closed and 462 changes have been made. The most important changes: WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows, added system call thunks for Vulkan and OpenGL. The main composition includes the OpenLDAP library, compiled in […]

SerpentOS toolkit available for testing

After two years of work on the project, the developers of the SerpentOS distribution announced the possibility of testing the main tools, including: the moss package manager; moss-container container system; moss-deps dependency management system; boulder assembly system; Avalanche service hiding system; vessel repository manager; summit control panel; moss-db database; system of reproducible bootstrapping (bootstrap) bill. Public API and package recipes available. […]

The XNUMXth Ubuntu Touch Firmware Update

The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled away from it, has published an OTA-24 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed to Lomiri. Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 update is for BQ E4.5/E5/M10/U Plus, Cosmo Communicator, F(x)tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google […]

1600 malicious container images found on Docker Hub

Sysdig, which develops an open system analysis tool of the same name, has published the results of a study of more than 250 Linux container images hosted in the Docker Hub directory without any sign of a verified or official image. As a result, 1652 images were classified as malicious. In 608 images, components for cryptocurrency mining were identified, in 288 access tokens were left (in 155 SSH keys, in […]

Release of Zulip 6 messaging platform

The release of Zulip 6, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers, suitable for organizing communication between employees and development teams, took place. The project was originally developed by Zulip and opened after its takeover by Dropbox under an Apache 2.0 license. The server side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and […]

Qt Creator 9 Development Environment Release

The release of the integrated development environment Qt Creator 9.0, designed to create cross-platform applications using the Qt library, has been published. Both the development of classic C++ programs and the use of the QML language are supported, in which JavaScript is used to define scripts, and the structure and parameters of interface elements are set by CSS-like blocks. Ready assemblies are formed for Linux, Windows and macOS. IN […]

Release of LTSM 1.0 terminal access system

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

SDL 2.26.0 Media Library Release

The SDL 2.26.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library, aimed at simplifying the writing of games and multimedia applications, has been released. The SDL library provides facilities such as hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics output, input processing, audio playback, 3D output via OpenGL/OpenGL ES/Vulkan, and many other related operations. The library is written in C language and distributed under the Zlib license. To take advantage of the SDL […]

Stable Diffusion 2.0 Image Synthesis System Introduced

Stability AI has published the second edition of the Stable Diffusion machine learning system, which is capable of synthesizing and modifying images based on a suggested template or natural language text description. The code of tools for neural network training and image generation is written in Python using the PyTorch framework and published under the MIT license. Already trained models are open under a permissive license […]

Release of the Redox OS 0.8 operating system written in Rust

The release of the Redox 0.8 operating system, developed using the Rust language and the microkernel concept, has been published. The developments of the project are distributed under the free MIT license. For testing Redox OS, demo builds of 768 MB are offered, as well as images with a basic graphical environment (256 MB) and console tools for server systems (256 MB). The assemblies are generated for the x86_64 architecture and are available […]