The KDE Akademy 2022 conference set new goals for the KDE project, which will be given increased attention during development in the next 2-3 years. The targets are selected based on a community vote. Past goals were set in 2019 and included implementing Wayland support, unifying apps, and tidying up app distribution tools. New goals: Accessibility for […]
Facebook (banned in Russia) has published the Sapling source code management system used in the development of the company's internal projects. The system aims to provide a familiar versioning interface that can scale to very large repositories spanning tens of millions of files, commits and branches. The client code is written in Python and Rust, and is open under the GPLv2 license. Separately developed server part […]
The EuroLinux 8.7 distribution has been released, prepared by rebuilding the source texts of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 distribution packages and fully binary compatible with it. The changes come down to rebranding and removal of RHEL-specific packages, otherwise the distribution is completely similar to RHEL 8.7. Installation images are prepared for download, 12 GB (appstream) and 1.7 GB in size. The distribution is […]
Published the 60th edition of the ranking of the 500 most high-performance computers in the world. In the new edition, there is only one change in the top ten - the 4th place was taken by the Leonardo cluster, located in the Italian research center CINECA. The cluster includes almost 1.5 million processor cores (CPU Xeon Platinum 8358 32C 2.6GHz) and provides a performance of 255.75 petaflops with a power consumption of 5610 kilowatts. Troika […]
The release of the free BlueZ 5.47 Bluetooth stack used in Linux and Chrome OS distributions has taken place. The release is notable for the initial implementation of the BAP (Basic Audio Profile), which is part of the LE Audio (Low Energy Audio) standard and defines the capabilities to control the delivery of audio streams for devices using Bluetooth LE (Low Energy). Supports receiving and transmitting audio in conventional and broadcast […]
The Firefox 107 web browser has been released. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch, 102.5.0, has been formed. The Firefox 108 branch, which is scheduled for release on December 13, will soon be transferred to the beta testing stage. Major new features in Firefox 107: The profiling interface (Performance tab in developer tools) adds the ability to analyze power usage on […]
Fedora Linux 37 distribution released. Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition and Live builds are available for download, delivered in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE and LXQt. Assemblies are generated for x86_64, Power64 and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. Publishing Fedora Silverblue builds is delayed. The most significant […]
The DuckDB 0.6.0 DBMS release is available, combining such SQLite properties as compactness, the ability to connect in the form of an embedded library, storing the database in a single file and a convenient CLI interface, with tools and optimizations for performing analytical queries covering a significant part of the stored data, for example , which perform aggregation of the entire contents of tables or merge several large tables. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. […]
The release of the temBoard 8.0 project, which develops a web interface for remote control, monitoring, configuration and optimization of the PostgreSQL DBMS, has been released. The product includes a lightweight agent installed on each PostgreSQL server and a server component that centrally manages agents and collects statistics for monitoring. The code is written in Python and distributed under the free PostgreSQL License. The main features of temBoard: […]
The developers of the Mesa project announced the certification of the rusticl driver by the Khronos organization, which successfully passed all the tests from the CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and was recognized as fully compatible with the OpenCL 3.0 specification, which defines the API and extensions of the C language for organizing cross-platform parallel computing. Obtaining a certificate makes it possible to officially declare compatibility with standards and use related […]
Deno 1.28 is released, a stand-alone JavaScript and TypeScript application execution framework that can be used to create server-side handlers. The platform is being developed by Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js. Like Node.js, Deno uses the V8 JavaScript engine, which is also used in Chromium-based browsers. At the same time, Deno is not an offshoot […]
A vulnerability has been identified in Netgear devices that allows, without authentication, to achieve the execution of its code with root rights through manipulations in the external network on the side of the WAN interface. The vulnerability has been confirmed in the R6900P, R7000P, R7960P and R8000P wireless routers, as well as in network devices for deploying mesh networks MR60 and MS60. Netgear has already released a firmware update to fix the vulnerability. […]
