Author: ProHoster

Canonical Launches Free Extended Update Service for Ubuntu

Canonical has made available a free subscription to the commercial Ubuntu Pro (formerly Ubuntu Advantage) service, which provides access to extended updates for the LTS branches of Ubuntu. The service provides the opportunity to receive updates with vulnerabilities fixes for 10 years (the standard maintenance period for LTS branches is 5 years) and provides access to live patches that allow you to apply updates to the Linux kernel on the fly without rebooting. […]

GitHub Adds Support for Vulnerability Tracking in Dart Projects

GitHub announced the addition of Dart language support to its services for tracking vulnerabilities in packages containing Dart code. Support for Dart and the Flutter framework has also been added to the GitHub Advisory Database, which publishes information about vulnerabilities affecting projects hosted on GitHub, as well as tracking issues in packages related to […]

RetroArch 1.11 game console emulator released

The release of the RetroArch 1.11 project has been published, which develops an add-on for emulating various game consoles, which allows you to run classic games using a simple, unified graphical interface. The use of emulators of such consoles as Atari 2600/7800/Jaguar/Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64/DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X/CD, SuperNES, etc. is supported. Gamepads from existing game consoles can be used, including Playstation 3, […]

Redcore Linux 2201 Distribution Release

A year since the last release, the Redcore Linux 2201 distribution has been released, which attempts to combine the functionality of Gentoo with convenience for ordinary users. The distribution provides a simple installer that allows you to quickly deploy a working system without requiring rebuilding components from source. Users are provided with a repository with ready-made binary packages, maintained using a continuous update cycle (rolling model). For driving […]

The LLVM project develops buffer safe handling in C++

The developers of the LLVM project have proposed a number of changes aimed at strengthening the security of mission-critical C++ projects and providing a means to eliminate errors caused by buffer overruns. The work is focused on two areas: providing a development model that allows you to safely work with buffers, and working on hardening the security of the libc++ standard library of functions. The proposed secure programming model […]

Wireshark 4.0 network analyzer release

The release of the new stable branch of the Wireshark 4.0 network analyzer has been published. Recall that the project was originally developed under the name Ethereal, but in 2006 due to a conflict with the owner of the Ethereal trademark, the developers were forced to rename the project to Wireshark. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key New in Wireshark 4.0.0: Changed the layout of elements in the main window. Panels "Additional Information about […]

Release of Polemarch 2.1, a web interface for Ansible

Polemarch 2.1.0, a web interface for managing server infrastructure based on Ansible, has been released. The project code is written in Python and JavaScript using the Django and Celery frameworks. The project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. To start the system, it is enough to install the package and start 1 service. For industrial use, it is recommended to additionally use MySQL/PostgreSQL and Redis/RabbitMQ+Redis (cache and MQ broker). For […]

FreeBSD adds support for the Netlink protocol used in the Linux kernel

The FreeBSD codebase adopts an implementation of the Netlink communication protocol (RFC 3549), which is used in Linux to organize interaction between the kernel and processes in user space. The project is limited to supporting the NETLINK_ROUTE family of operations for managing the state of the networking subsystem in the kernel. In its current form, the Netlink support layer allows FreeBSD to use the ip Linux utility from the iproute2 package to manage network interfaces, […]

The prototype of the ALP platform going on change of SUSE Linux Enterprise is published

SUSE has published the first prototype of the ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform), positioned as a continuation of the development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution. The key difference of the new system is the division of the distribution's core framework into two parts: a stripped-down "host OS" for running on top of the hardware and an application support layer focused on running in containers and virtual machines. The assemblies are prepared for the x86_64 architecture. […]

OpenSSH 9.1 release

After six months of development, the release of OpenSSH 9.1, an open implementation of the client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, has been published. The release is characterized as containing mostly bug fixes, including several potential memory vulnerabilities: Single-byte overflow in the SSH banner handling code in the ssh-keyscan utility. Double calling the free() function […]

NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, has been unveiled

Collabora has released NVK, a new open source driver for Mesa implementing the Vulkan graphics API for NVIDIA graphics cards. The driver is written from scratch using official header files and open kernel modules published by NVIDIA. The driver code is open source under the MIT license. The driver only supports GPUs based on Turing and Ampere microarchitectures released since September 2018. Project […]

Firefox Update 105.0.2

A correction release of Firefox 105.0.2 is available that fixes several bugs: Fixed an issue with low contrast display of menu items (white on gray background) when using some skins on Linux. Fixed a deadlock that occurred when loading some sites in safe mode (Troubleshoot). Fixed a bug that caused the 'appearance' CSS property to dynamically change incorrectly (e.g. 'input.style.appearance = 'textfield''). Fixed […]