Lennart Poettering, creator of projects such as Avahi (an implementation of the ZeroConf protocol), the PulseAudio sound server, and the system manager systemd, has resigned from Red Hat, where he worked since 2008 and led the development of systemd. His new workplace is said to be Microsoft, where Lennart's activities will also be related to the development of systemd. Microsoft uses […]
A corrective release of Firefox 102.0.1 is now available, addressing several shortcomings: Fixed an issue that prevented spell checking in content that combined words in English and non-Latin-based languages. For example, the issue prevented the identification of errors in Cyrillic text when both English and Russian dictionaries were enabled. A bug causing flickering white background has been fixed in […]
Oracle has released stable versions of the Oracle Linux 9 distribution and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 (UEK R7), positioned for use within the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard kernel package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Oracle Linux 9 distribution is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 package base and is fully binary compatible with […]
Tim Berners-Lee announced the decision to grant the specification defining decentralized identifiers for the Web (DID, Decentralized Identifier) recommended standard status. Objections raised by companies Google and Mozilla have been rejected. The DID specification introduces a new type of unique global identifier that is not tied to individual centralized services and organizations, such as domain registrars and certificate authorities. An identifier can be […]
A new version of the open-source monitoring system Zabbix 6.2 has been introduced. This release includes performance enhancements, flexible operations with automatically discovered hosts, detailed process monitoring, significant improvements in monitoring the VMWare platform, new visualization and data collection tools, an expanded list of integrations and templates, and much more. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Zabbix — […]
The release of the Live distribution Porteus 5.0 has been published, built on the Slackware Linux 15 package base and offering builds with custom environments Xfce, Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and OpenBox. The distribution's components are selected for minimal resource consumption, allowing Porteus to run on outdated hardware. Notable features also include high boot speed. Compact Live images of about […] are available for download.
Corrective releases of the web framework Django 4.0.6 and 3.2.14 have been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2022-34265) that could potentially allow for SQL code injection. The issue affects applications that use unverified external data in the parameters kind and lookup_name passed to the functions Trunc(kind) and Extract(lookup_name). Programs that only allow verified data in lookup_name and kind are not affected by this vulnerability. The issue has been blocked through restrictions […]
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a human rights organization providing legal support for free projects and advocating for compliance with the GPL license, has announced a cessation of any use of the GitHub code collaboration platform and urged developers of other open projects to follow its lead. The organization has also launched an initiative aimed at simplifying the migration of projects from GitHub to more open alternatives, such as CodeBerg ([…]
Matthias Clasen, the leader of the Fedora Desktop Team, a member of the GNOME Release Team, and one of the active developers of GTK (having prepared 36.8% of the changes in GTK 4), has begun discussing the potential cessation of support for the X11 protocol in the next major GTK5 branch and limiting GTK's functionality in Linux to using the Wayland protocol only. In a note accompanying the proposal to discontinue support […]
The release of Sound Open Firmware 2.2 (SOF) has been published, initially created by Intel to move away from the practice of providing closed firmware for DSP chips related to audio processing. The project has since been transferred under the aegis of the Linux Foundation and is now being developed with community involvement and participation from companies like AMD, Google, and NXP. The project is developing an SDK to simplify firmware development, […]
A vulnerability has been discovered in Netfilter, a subsystem of the Linux kernel used for filtering and modifying network packets (CVE not assigned), which allows a local user to execute code at the kernel level and escalate their privileges in the system. Researchers demonstrated an exploit that enabled a local user to gain root access on Ubuntu 22.04 with kernel version 5.15.0-39-generic. The vulnerability was initially scheduled for public disclosure on August 15, but […]
The GNOME web browser Epiphany, based on the WebKitGTK engine and offered to users as GNOME Web, has added support for add-ons in the WebExtension format. The WebExtensions API allows for the creation of add-ons using standard web technologies and unifies the development of add-ons across various browsers (WebExtensions is used in add-ons for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). The version with add-on support will be included in […]