The Ubuntu RescuePack 22.10 build is available for free download, allowing you to conduct a full anti-virus scan without starting the main operating system to detect and remove various malware, computer viruses, Trojans, rootkits, worms, spyware, ransomware from the system, as well as disinfect infected computers. The size of the boot Live image is 3.5 GB (x86_64). The composition includes antivirus packages ESET NOD32 4, […]
On October 24, a one-day technical conference PGConf.Siberia 2022 will be held in Novosibirsk. The detailed program can be found on the event website, registration is available there. Participation is paid (4500 rubles). On October 26, Barnaul will host PGMeetup.Barnaul, an open meeting with top managers and leading Postgres Professional specialists. Meetup participants are waiting for reports on the history of PostgreSQL, updates on PostgreSQL 15 and […]
The Firefox 106 web browser has been released. In addition, a long-term support branch update has been created - 102.4.0. The Firefox 107 branch has been transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for November 15. Key new features in Firefox 106: The design of the private browsing window has been redesigned so that it is less likely to be confused with the normal mode. The private mode window is now […]
The next release of ErgoFramework 2.2 took place, implementing the complete Erlang network stack and its OTP library in the Go language. The framework provides the developer with flexible tools from the world of Erlang for creating distributed solutions in the Go language using ready-made general-purpose design patterns gen.Application, gen.Supervisor and gen.Server, as well as specialized ones - gen.Stage (distributed pub/sub), gen. Saga (distributed transactions, implementation of the pattern […]
The non-profit organization Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) announced the release of the open 3D game engine Open 3D Engine 22.10 (O3DE), suitable for developing modern AAA games and high-fidelity simulations capable of real-time and cinematic quality. The code is written in C++ and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Supports Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS and […]
After four years of development, the first release of the libcamera project (0.0.1) was formed, offering a software stack for working with video cameras, cameras and TV tuners in Linux, Android and ChromeOS, which continues the development of the V4L2 API and will eventually replace it. Since the library's API is still changing and has not yet been fully stabilized, the project has so far developed without branching into separate releases […]
The release of Tails 5.5 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution kit based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been released. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-509-2022) has been identified in the LibKSBA library, developed by the GnuPG project and providing functions for working with X.3515 certificates, leading to an integer overflow and writing arbitrary data outside the allocated buffer when parsing ASN.1 structures used in S/MIME, X.509 and CMS. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the Libksba library is used in the GnuPG package and the vulnerability can lead to […]
The release of the Crystal 1.6 programming language has been published, the developers of which are trying to combine the convenience of development in the Ruby language with the high application performance characteristic of the C language. Crystal's syntax is close to, but not fully compatible with, Ruby, although some Ruby programs run without modification. The compiler code is written in Crystal and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. […]
The developers of the Rolling Rhino Remix assembly have announced the transformation of the project into a separate Rhino Linux distribution. The reason for the creation of a new product was a revision of the goals and development model of the project, which had already outgrown the state of amateur development and began to go beyond the scope of a simple rebuild of Ubuntu. The new distribution will continue to be built on the basis of Ubuntu, but will include additional utilities and be developed by the […]
A release of the Nuitka 1.1 project is available, which develops a compiler for translating Python scripts into a C representation, which can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython for maximum compatibility with CPython (using native CPython tools for managing objects). Provided full compatibility with current releases of Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 - 3.10. Compared with […]
New bootable assemblies of the Void Linux distribution have been generated, which is an independent project that does not use the developments of other distributions and is developed using a continuous cycle of updating program versions (rolling updates, without separate releases of the distribution). Previous builds were published a year ago. Apart from the appearance of current boot images based on a more recent slice of the system, updating assemblies does not bring functional changes and […]
