IEEE Spectrum magazine, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has released a new edition of its programming language popularity ranking. Python continues to lead the ranking, with C, C++, and C# following closely behind. Compared to last year's ranking, Java has dropped from 2nd to 5th place. The position of C# has strengthened, moving up from 6th to […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.16 — has taken place. Since the release of version 7.15, 20 bug reports have been closed and 226 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for WoW64 added in the X11 driver, a layer for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. Session storage has been implemented in the MSHTML engine. Correct Unicode processing in regular expressions has been established in MSXML […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-36804) has been identified in Bitbucket Server, a package for deploying a web interface for working with Git repositories. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker with read access to private or public repositories to execute arbitrary code on the server by sending a specially crafted HTTP request. The issue affects versions starting from 6.10.17 and has been fixed in Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center releases 7.6.17, 7.17.10, […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network configuration settings — NetworkManager 1.40.0 — is now available. Plugins to support VPNs (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are being developed as part of their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.40 include: the command line interface nmcli has implemented the ‘—offline’ flag, allowing connection profiles in keyfile format to be processed without referring to the NetworkManager background process. In particular, […]
In recent releases of the Chromium engine, clipboard interaction behavior has changed. While in Firefox, Safari, and older versions of Chrome, clipboard writing was only allowed after explicit user actions, in new releases, simply opening a website is sufficient for clipboard writing. The change in Chrome's behavior is explained by the need to read data from the clipboard when displaying the splash screen […]
Cloudflare has released the source code of its own version of the PgBouncer proxy server, which is used to maintain a pool of open connections to the PostgreSQL database management system. PgBouncer enables applications to connect to PostgreSQL via already established connections, thus eliminating the constant execution of resource-intensive operations for opening and closing connections and reducing the number of active connections to PostgreSQL. The proposed changes in the fork aim for stricter […]
Red Hat has announced the discontinuation of support for the GTK 2 library, starting with the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The gtk2 package will not be included in RHEL 10, which will only support GTK 3 and GTK 4. The reason for removing GTK 2 is the toolkit's obsolescence and lack of support for modern technologies such as Wayland, […]
The gaming platform Lutris 0.5.11 has been released, providing tools to simplify the installation, configuration, and management of games on Linux. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project supports a catalog for quickly finding and installing game applications, allowing users to launch games on Linux with a single click, without worrying about installation dependencies and settings. […]
Members of the Google Security Team have published an open library called Paranoid, designed to identify unreliable cryptographic artifacts such as public keys and digital signatures created in vulnerable hardware (HSM) and software systems. The code is written in Python and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. This project may be useful for indirectly assessing the use of algorithms and libraries that contain known […]
Nearly three years after the release of the last update, the release of the composite manager Compiz 0.9.14.2 has been published. This version uses OpenGL for graphics output (windows are processed as textures using GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap) and provides a flexible plugin system for implementing effects and extending functionality. Among the most notable changes in the new version is the implementation of support for properties _GTK_WORKAREAS_D{number} and _GNOME_WM_STRUT_AREA, which improve the operation of […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.4 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formalized, based on the Debian package base and intended for anonymous online access. In Tails, anonymous browsing is ensured by the Tor network. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by a default packet filter. User data storage in persistent mode between sessions is encrypted. […]
Developers from Red Hat have announced the readiness of the gnome-info-collect tool for gathering telemetry data about systems running the GNOME environment. Users interested in participating in data collection are offered ready-made packages for Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch Linux, and Fedora. The information collected will help analyze the preferences of GNOME users and consider them in decision-making related to enhancing usability […]