According to The Register, Oracle has laid off 70 employees involved in the development of the MySQL database, including several experienced developers. Michael 'Monty' Widenius, co-founder of MySQL and creator of the MariaDB project, stated that it pains him to hear about the mass layoffs at MySQL, and while he is not surprised by Oracle's actions, he is still […]
The Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization offering a neutral and independent platform for developing around 400 open-source products, has unveiled a new logo, revamped the design of the apache.org website, and announced a shift to using the brand ASF instead of the full name 'Apache Software Foundation.' The new logo depicts […] instead of the feather, which has been a symbol of Apache projects since 1997.
Oracle has released a patch for the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.2.2, which includes 21 changes: For hosts running Linux with kernel versions 6.16 or later, the KVM API has been utilized to access VT-x processor extensions. The open-source version of the base package now includes a driver for a virtual webcam with a USB interface. Additionally, a new experimental […]
The release of Electron 38.0.0 has been announced, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform desktop applications based on Chromium, V8, and Node.js components. Among the changes in this new release: Updated versions of the Chromium browser engine to 140, Node.js platform to 22.18.0, and JavaScript engine V8 to 14.0 (the previous branch used Chromium 138, Node.js 22.16.0, and V8 13.8). The ability to change accent colors […]
By the end of 2024, attempts by some users to search on Google with JavaScript disabled resulted in being redirected to a page that requested enabling JavaScript in the browser. In January 2025, a selective testing phase prohibiting access without JavaScript was completed, and the restriction was applied to all users, while leaving a few loopholes. For instance, access to the search engine from […]
The composite server Hyprland 0.51 is now available, utilizing the Wayland protocol. The project focuses on a tiling window layout but also supports traditional arbitrary window placement, window grouping in tab form, a pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen window expansion. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. It provides capabilities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window borders, blurring […]
The openSUSE developers have announced the discontinuation of the BCacheFS filesystem in Linux kernel packages. The reason cited is the assignment of this filesystem in the main kernel to an external maintenance status, implying the cessation of changes to Bcachefs in the main kernel while keeping this filesystem in the kernel codebase. The openSUSE developers do not intend to backport it into the distribution package with […]
In the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, scheduled for October 9, the use of Dracut as the default tool for generating initial RAM disk (initrd) images has been approved, replacing the initramfs-tools package, whose development has stagnated in recent years and is limited to maintenance work. Since the development of the 25.10 release has been frozen since mid-August, preventing the addition of new functionality, the transition to […]
Stamus Networks has released a specialized distribution of Clear NDR 1.0, designed for deploying network intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as organizing responses to detected threats and network security monitoring. Users are provided with a ready-made solution for managing network security that can be used immediately after download. The distribution supports operation in Live mode and deployment in virtualization environments or […]
The first beta release of the Term.Everything utility has been published, allowing any graphical applications to be displayed inside a terminal emulator window. Among other features, the program enables launching graphical applications in the terminal when accessing a remote system via SSH. The project code is distributed under the AGPL 3.0 license, written in TypeScript, and runs on the Bun platform. Ready-to-use builds are provided in AppImage format. Technically […]
The story of the compromise of 18 NPM packages, which collectively have over 2 billion downloads per week, has continued. A similar hijacking was detected through phishing of credentials related to the NPM packages of the DuckDB project. Malicious versions with code that substitutes payment details via cryptocurrencies were also created for DuckDB packages, but the attack was detected immediately, and only a few downloads were recorded […]
Developers of the AlmaLinux distribution have announced the decision to activate the CodeReady Builder (CRB) package repository by default with the publication of the almalinux-repos package update for AlmaLinux OS 10.0 tomorrow. In AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10, based on CentOS Stream 10, this repository has already been included since the end of August. For those who do not wish to enable CRB, the command 'dnf config-manager […]