Author: Yuri Gagarin

Support for the Rust programming language has been approved in GCC

The committee overseeing the development of the GCC compiler set (GCC Steering Committee) has approved the inclusion of a Rust language compiler implementation, prepared by the gccrs project, into the main GCC body. After integration, the standard GCC toolchain will be able to compile programs written in Rust without the need to install the rustc compiler built using LLVM technology. Developers of gccrs have been advised to start working with commands, […]

Release of the integrated suite of Internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53.13

The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.13 internet application suite has taken place, which combines a web browser, email client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer within a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, the DOM Inspector web development toolset, and the Lightning calendar-scheduler. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

Release of Libreboot 20220710, a fully free Coreboot distribution

After seven months of development, the release of the Libreboot 20220710 free boot firmware has been published. This is the fourth release of the GNU project, presented as the first stable release (previous releases were marked as test versions, as they required further stabilization and testing). Libreboot develops a fully free branch from the CoreBoot project, providing a binary-free replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, which are compliant with […]

Release of the backup utility rclone 1.59

The release of the rclone 1.59 utility has been published, which is an alternative to rsync, designed for copying and synchronizing data between a local system and various cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Mail.ru Cloud, and Yandex.Disk. The project code is written in Go and is distributed under the […]

The implementation of two-factor authentication in PyPI led to an incident with the removal of a popular package.

The developers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have announced a plan to require two-factor authentication for packages categorized as critical. The importance is determined by the number of downloads, and the change will apply to the accounts of maintainers and owners of projects linked to 1% of the most downloaded packages over the past six months. Currently, the PyPI repository includes over […]

Debian 11.4 update

The fourth point release of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release features 81 updates addressing stability problems and 79 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.4 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as apache2, clamav, postfix, network-manager, ganeti, libtgowt, nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-persistenced, nvidia-settings, […]

The Bacula 13.0.0 backup system is now available

The release of the cross-platform client-server backup system Bacula 13.0.0 has been announced. The 12.x branch was skipped to separate version numbering between free and commercial editions — odd numbers are used for the free version, while even numbers are used for the commercial version. The free version of Bacula is distributed under the AGPLv3 license, but excessive control over development and functionality reduction in favor of the commercial version […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.26

The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.26 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the basic Wayland protocol and provide features necessary for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases — development, testing, and stabilization. After the development stage is completed (the 'unstable' category), the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols set, […]

The release of the nDPI packet deep inspection system 4.4

The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has published the release of the nDPI toolkit for deep packet inspection 4.4, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established following an unsuccessful attempt to submit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has been left unsupported. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for identifying protocols used in traffic […]

Release of the wxWidgets 3.2.0 graphical toolkit.

After 9 years since the release of the 3.0 branch, the first release of the new stable branch of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.2.0 has been announced, allowing for the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX, and mobile platforms. Compared to the 3.0 branch, a number of API-level incompatibilities have been observed. The toolkit is written in C++ and is distributed under the wxWindows Library License, which is approved […]

Release of the text recognition system Tesseract 5.2

The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.2 has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The output can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. Initially, the system was created between 1985 and 1995 at the Hewlett Packard laboratory, in […]

The Ubuntu MATE distribution has created builds for Raspberry Pi platforms.

The developers of the Ubuntu MATE distribution, built on the Ubuntu package base and offering a desktop environment based on the MATE project, have announced the formation of builds for Raspberry Pi boards. The builds are based on the Ubuntu MATE 22.04 release and are prepared for both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards. Notable features include: Default inclusion of the zswap mechanism and the lz4 algorithm for […]

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