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Wine 7.21 and GE-Proton7-41 release

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.21 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.20, 25 bug reports have been closed and 354 changes have been made. The most important changes: The OpenGL library has been switched to use the PE (Portable Executable) executable file format instead of ELF. Added support for multi-architecture builds in PE format. Preparations have been made to support the launch of 32-bit programs using […]

Vulnerability in Android that allows you to bypass the lock screen

A vulnerability has been identified in the Android platform (CVE-2022-20465) that allows disabling the screen lock by swapping the SIM card and entering the PUK code. The ability to disable the lock has been demonstrated on Google Pixel devices, but since the fix affects the main Android codebase, it is likely that the problem also affects firmware from other manufacturers. The issue was addressed in the November Android Security Patch Roll. Paying attention […]

Distribution AlmaLinux 8.7 is available, continuing the development of CentOS 8

The AlmaLinux 8.7 distribution kit has been released, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 distribution kit and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Assemblies are prepared for x86_64, ARM64, s390x and ppc64le architectures in the form of boot (820 MB), minimum (1.7 GB) and full image (11 GB). Later they plan to create Live builds, as well as images for Raspberry Pi, WSL, […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 distribution release

Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7. Installation builds have been prepared for the x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 architectures, but are available for download only to registered Red Hat Customer Portal users. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 rpm packages are distributed through the CentOS Git repository. The 8.x branch is maintained in parallel with the RHEL 9.x branch and […]

Release of DXVK 2.0, Direct3D 9/10/11 implementations on top of the Vulkan API

The release of the DXVK 2.0 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires Vulkan 1.3 API-enabled drivers such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]

Microsoft has published an open platform .NET 7

Microsoft has announced a significant release of the .NET 7 open platform, built by unifying the .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Mono products. With .NET 7, you can build cross-platform applications for the browser, cloud, desktop, IoT devices, and mobile platforms using common libraries and a common application-independent build process. .NET SDK 7 assemblies, .NET Runtime […]

The source code for the RADIOSS engineering package has been published

Altair, as part of the OpenRADIOSS project, has opened the source code for the RADIOSS package, which is an analogue of LS-DYNA and is designed to solve problems in continuum mechanics, such as calculating the strength of engineering structures in highly nonlinear problems associated with large plastic deformations of the medium under study. The code is mostly written in Fortran and is open source under the AGPLv3 license. Supports Linux […]

Ridding the Linux Kernel of Behavior-Changing Code for Processes Starting with X

Jason A. Donenfeld, author of VPN WireGuard, drew the attention of developers to a dirty hack present in the Linux kernel code that changes the behavior for processes whose name begins with the character "X". At first glance, fixes like this are usually applied in rootkits to leave a hidden loophole in process binding, but analysis showed that the change was added in 2019 […]

Co-development platform SourceHut prohibits hosting projects related to cryptocurrencies

Collaborative development platform SourceHut has announced an upcoming change to its terms of use. The new terms, which will come into effect on January 1, 2023, prohibit the posting of content related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain. After the start of the new conditions, they also plan to delete all previously placed similar projects. On a separate request to the support service for legal and useful projects, […]

Release of Phosh 0.22, a GNOME environment for smartphones. Fedora Mobile Builds

Phosh 0.22.0, a desktop shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library, has been released. The environment was originally developed by Purism as an analogue of GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, but then became part of the unofficial GNOME projects and is now also used in postmarketOS, Mobian, some firmware for Pine64 devices and the Fedora edition for smartphones. […]

Clonezilla Live 3.0.2 distribution release

The release of Clonezilla Live 3.0.2 Linux-distribution is presented, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary Norton Ghost product. The distribution iso image size is 363 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses the code of such projects as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast in its work. You can download from […]