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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.

Release of Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS with updates to the graphics stack and Linux kernel

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An update for the Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS distribution has been formed, which includes changes related to hardware support improvements, updates for the Linux kernel and graphical stack, and bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. It also includes current updates for several hundred packages related to vulnerability fixes and issues affecting stability. Simultaneously, similar updates for Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.5 LTS, Kubuntu ... have been presented.

Linux From Scratch 11.2 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.2 have been released

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New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11.2 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.2 (BLFS) manuals have been introduced, along with LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source texts of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building ...

Release of Chrome 105

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Google has released version 105 of the Chrome web browser. Concurrently, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by utilizing Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google APIs, and transmission under […]

Release of Armbian 22.08

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The release of the Armbian 22.08 Linux distribution has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including different models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard running on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are created using Debian package repositories […]

Release of Nicotine+ 3.2.5, a graphical client for the peer-to-peer Soulseek network.

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The release of the free graphical client Nicotine+ 3.2.5 for the P2P file-sharing network Soulseek has occurred. Nicotine+ aims to be a user-friendly, free open-source alternative to the official Soulseek client, offering additional functionality while maintaining compatibility with the Soulseek protocol. The client's code is written in Python using the GTK graphical library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for GNU/Linux, […]

Release of QEMU 7.1

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The release of the QEMU 7.1 project has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows a program built for one hardware platform to run on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of the hardware system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and the involvement of […]

Apache OpenOffice has surpassed 333 million downloads.

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The developers of the Apache OpenOffice office suite have reported surpassing 333 million downloads for the project (according to SourceForge statistics — 352 million), made since the first release of Apache OpenOffice in May 2012. The milestone of 300 million downloads was reached in late October 2020, 200 million — in late November 2016, and 100 million — […]

The second critical vulnerability in GitLab this week.

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GitLab has released another series of corrective updates for its collaborative development platform — 15.3.2, 15.2.4, and 15.1.6, in which a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-2992) has been fixed, allowing an authenticated user to execute code remotely on the server. Similar to the CVE-2022-2884 vulnerability fixed a week ago, the new issue is present in the API for importing data from GitHub. The vulnerability also manifests itself in […]

Firefox 104.0.1 and Tor Browser 11.5.2 Update

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A corrective release of Firefox 104.0.1 is available, which fixes an issue with video playback stopping on the YouTube site. The problem is caused by the reuse of the device for accelerating video decoding and primarily occurs on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards. As a workaround for this issue, you can set the parameters media.wmf.zero-copy-nv12-texture and gfx.direct3d11.reuse-decoder-device to false on the page about:config. Additionally, […]

The capabilities of VPN applications that filter traffic and ads will be restricted in the Play Store.

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Google has made changes to the Play Store catalog rules, which restrict the platform's provided VpnService API. New rules prohibit the use of VpnService to filter traffic from other applications for monetization purposes, hidden collection of personal and confidential data, and any ad manipulations that could affect the monetization of other applications. Services are also required to implement mandatory encryption for tunneled traffic […]

In Fedora Linux 39, support for SHA-1-based signatures is planned to be disabled by default.

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The Fedora project developers have outlined a plan to discontinue support for digital signatures based on the SHA-1 algorithm in Fedora Linux 39. The discontinuation entails ceasing trust in signatures that use SHA-1 hashes (SHA-224 will be declared the minimum supported in digital signatures), while maintaining support for HMAC with SHA-1 and providing the option to enable the LEGACY profile with SHA-1. After these changes are applied, the library […]

A port of the LXQt user environment is being developed based on Sway, supporting Wayland

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The lxqt-sway project, focused on porting LXQt desktop components to work in the Sway environment and with a compositor using the Wayland protocol, has published its developments. In its current form, the project resembles a hybrid of the two environments. LXQt settings are transformed into a Sway configuration file. To carry out operations such as changing the virtual desktop, splitting, and closing windows, additional menus have been implemented, making it easier to […]

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