The Wine project has published a release of the vkd3d 1.5 package with a Direct3D 12 implementation that works via call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries with Direct3D 12 implementations, libvkd3d-shader with shader model translator 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demos, including a port of glxgears […]
The LeanQt project has begun developing a stripped-down fork of Qt 5 aimed at making it easier to build from source and integrate with applications. LeanQt is developed by Rochus Keller, the author of the compiler and development environment for the Oberon language, tied to Qt 5, in order to simplify the compilation of his product with a minimum number of dependencies, but while maintaining support for current platforms. […]
After twenty months of development, a new version of the GNU Bash 5.2 shell, used by default in most Linux distributions, has been published. At the same time, the release of the readline 8.2 library, which is used in bash to organize command line editing, was formed. Among the key improvements are: Rewritten code for parsing command substitution constructs (command substitution, substitution of output from executing another command, for example, “$(command)” […]
The developers of the OpenBSD project have unveiled a new release of the Got (Game of Trees) source control system, which focuses on ease of design and use. To store versioned data, Got uses storage that is compatible with the disk format of Git repositories, which allows you to work with the repository using the Got and Git toolkits. For example, with Git you can do things […]
The release of the video editor Shotcut 22.09 is available, which is developed by the author of the MLT project and uses this framework to organize video editing. Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. It is possible to use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. Among the features of Shotcut, one can note the possibility of multi-track editing with the layout of video from fragments in […]
After almost two years of development, the release of an independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.7, developed since 2001 in accordance with the concept of KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and focused on advanced users, has been formed. The goal of the project is to create a distribution kit that is simple and transparent for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, having the most simplified structure and containing a relatively small number of […]
The twenty-sixth alpha release of the free game 0 AD has been published, which is a real-time strategy game with high-quality 3D graphics and gameplay similar to the games in the Age of Empires series. The source code of the game was opened by Wildfire Games under the GPL license after 9 years of development as a proprietary product. Game build available for Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, […]
The decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting PeerTube 4.3 was released. PeerTube offers a vendor-independent alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communication and linking visitor browsers. The developments of the project are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Main innovations: Implemented the ability to automatically import videos from other video platforms. For example, a user may initially […]
A corrective release of Redis 7.0.5 has been published that fixes a vulnerability (CVE-2022-35951) that could potentially allow an attacker to execute their code as the Redis process. The issue only affects the 7.x branch and requires access to execute queries to complete the attack. The vulnerability is caused by an integer overflow that occurs when an incorrect value is specified for the "COUNT" parameter in the "XAUTOCLAIM" command. When used in a command, stream keys […]
The OpenAI project, which develops public projects in the field of artificial intelligence, has published developments related to the Whisper speech recognition system. It is claimed that for speech in English, the system provides levels of reliability and accuracy of automatic recognition close to human recognition. The code of the reference implementation based on the PyTorch framework and a set of already trained models ready for use are open. The code is open […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.18. Since the release of version 7.17, 20 bug reports have been closed and 252 changes have been made. Most important changes: Character tables have been updated to the Unicode 15.0.0 specification. The macOS driver adds support for WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows. Fixed problems with asynchronous reading in the […]
The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 7.2.0 has been published with the server implementation for ONLYOFFICE online editors and collaboration. Editors can be used to work with text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The project code is distributed under the free license AGPLv3. At the same time, ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 7.2 was released, built on a single code base with online editors. Desktop editors are designed as desktop applications, […]
