A year after the release of the last significant version, the Thunderbird 102 email client has been released, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. This new release is categorized as a long-term support version, with updates being released over the course of a year. Thunderbird 102 is based on the ESR codebase of Firefox 102. The release is available for direct download, with automatic updates […]
The release of the Firefox 102 web browser has taken place. Firefox 102 is categorized as a long-term support (ESR) branch, with updates being released for a year. Additionally, an update for the previous long-term support branch 91.11.0 has been formed (two more updates 91.12 and 91.13 are expected shortly). The Firefox 103 branch will be moved to beta testing in the coming hours, […]
The release of Chrome OS 103, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage build toolkit, open components, and Chrome 103, is now available. The user environment in Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are used. Nevertheless, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The build of Chrome OS 103 […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.37 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to changes made 'retroactively,' implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, and digital signature verification is also possible […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the OpenSSL cryptographic library (CVE has not yet been assigned), allowing a remote attacker to corrupt the memory contents of a process by sending specially formatted data during the establishment of a TLS connection. It is currently unclear whether this issue could lead to the execution of the attacker's code and data leakage from the process's memory, or if it is limited to just a crash. The vulnerability manifests itself […]
The release of Wifibox 0.10 is now available, aimed at resolving the issue of using wireless adapters in FreeBSD for which the necessary drivers are missing. The problematic adapters for FreeBSD are supported by running a guest system with Linux, in which the native Linux drivers for wireless devices are loaded. The installation of the guest system with drivers is automated, and all necessary components are provided in the form of ready-made […]
A series of patches have been published for inclusion in the Linux 5.20 kernel, adding support for asynchronous buffered writes in the XFS file system using the io_uring mechanism. Preliminary performance tests conducted with the fio tool (1 stream, block size 4KB, 600 seconds, sequential write) show an increase in input/output operations per second (IOPS) from 77k to 209k, data transfer rates from […]
The containerd project has accepted a set of changes that integrate support for the runj runtime and enable the use of OCI-compatible container images based on Linux in FreeBSD, such as Docker images. The comments on the changes include an example of successfully running an Alpine Linux image in FreeBSD. $ sudo ctr run —rm —runtime wtf.sbk.runj.v1 —tty —snapshotter zfs docker.io/library/alpine:latest test sh -c ‘cat /etc/os-release […
The release of the Exim 4.96 mail server has taken place, incorporating accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to the May automated survey of about 800,000 mail servers, Exim accounts for 59.59% (up from 59.15% a year ago), Postfix is used on 33.64% (down from 33.76%), Sendmail — 3.55% (unchanged), MailEnable — 1.93% (down from 2.02%), MDaemon — 0.45% (down from 0.56%), Microsoft Exchange — […]
The release of SQLite 3.39 has been published, a lightweight DBMS packaged as a dynamic library. SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restrictions for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a consortium that includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Major changes include the addition of support for right […]
The release of Redbean 2.0 has been announced, offering a web server that allows web applications to be delivered as a single executable file compatible with Linux, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. All resources associated with the web application and server are packaged into one executable file, which is also compatible with the ZIP archive format, allowing the use of the zip utility for adding additional […]
The release of EndeavourOS 22.6 'Atlantis' is now available, replacing the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of time among remaining maintainers to support the project adequately. The installation image size is 1.8 GB (x86_64, with a separate version being developed for ARM). EndeavourOS allows users to install Arch Linux easily without unnecessary complications […]