BIND DNS Server Stable Branches 9.16.33 and 9.18.7, as well as a new release of Experimental Branch 9.19.5, have been released. The new versions fix vulnerabilities that could lead to a denial of service: CVE-2022-2795 - When delegating a large amount, a significant decrease in performance is possible, as a result, the server will not be able to serve requests. CVE-2022-2881 - Buffer overrun while reading, […]
The release of the free audio editor Audacity 3.2 has been published, providing tools for editing audio files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and WAV), recording and digitizing audio, changing audio file parameters, overlaying tracks and applying effects (for example, noise reduction, changing tempo and tone ). Audacity 3.2 is the second major release since the project was taken over by the Muse Group. Code […]
A patch release of Firefox 105.0.1 is available, hot on the heels of fixing an issue that caused the input focus to be set to the address bar after opening a new window, instead of the input field on the page selected in the settings as the start page. Source: opennet.ru
The Arch Linux developers have announced that they have discontinued Python 2 packages from the project's repositories. The Python 2 branch was deprecated back in January 2020, but after that it took a long time to gradually rework packages tied to Python 2. For users who need Python 2, there is an option to keep the packages in the system, but […]
The release of the Rust 1.64 general-purpose programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]
Microsoft announced the implementation of the ability to use the systemd system manager in Linux environments designed to run on Windows using the WSL subsystem. Support for systemd has reduced the requirements for distributions and brought the environment provided in WSL closer to running distributions on top of conventional hardware. Previously, distributions had to use a Microsoft-provided initialization handler run by […]
The release of the UbuntuDDE 22.04 (Remix) distribution has been published, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 codebase and shipped with the DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) graphical environment. The project is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu, but the developers are trying to get UbuntuDDE included in the official editions of Ubuntu. The size of the iso image is 3 GB. UbuntuDDE offers the current release of the Deepin desktop and a set of specialized applications developed […]
After eight months of development, a stable release of the Weston 11.0 composite server has been published, developing technologies that contribute to the emergence of full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE and other user environments. Weston's development aims to provide a high quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions such as platforms for car infotainment systems, smartphones, TV […]
The Eclipse community introduced the Jakarta EE 10 platform. Jakarta EE replaced Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) after transferring the specification, TCK, and reference implementation processes to the non-profit Eclipse Foundation. The platform continued to evolve under a new name as Oracle transferred only technology and project management, but did not transfer rights to the Eclipse […]
Testing of the first alpha version of the installer for Debian's next major release, Bookworm, has begun. The release is expected in the summer of 2023. Main changes: In apt-setup, the installation of certificates of certification authorities is provided to organize the verification of certificates when downloading packages via the HTTPS protocol. busybox includes awk, base64, less and stty applications. cdrom-detect now detects installation images on regular disks. In choose-mirror […]
After four months of development, the release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs, Mesa 22.2.0, has been published. The first release of the Mesa 22.2.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 22.2.1 will be released. In Mesa 22.2, support for the Vulkan 1.3 graphics API is available in the anv drivers for Intel GPUs, radv for AMD GPUs, and tu […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 43 desktop environment is presented. To quickly evaluate the capabilities of GNOME 43, specialized live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared as part of the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 43 is also already included in the Fedora 37 experimental build. In the new release: The system status menu has been redesigned to offer a block with […]
