Author: Yuri Gagarin

Google has provided the opportunity for free production of trial runs of open chips

In collaboration with manufacturing companies SkyWater Technology and Efabless, Google has launched an initiative allowing open hardware developers to produce their developed chips for free. The initiative aims to stimulate the development of open hardware, reduce costs in developing open projects, and simplify interaction with manufacturing plants. Thanks to this initiative, anyone can start designing their own specialized chips without fear of […]

Release of P2P platform GNUnet 0.17

The GNUnet 0.17 framework has been released, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks. Networks created with GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the confidentiality of users' private information, thus preventing possible abuses by intelligence agencies and administrators with access to the network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, […]

A new driver for the Vulkan graphics API is being developed based on Nouveau.

Developers from Red Hat and Collabora have begun creating an open Vulkan driver, nvk, for NVIDIA graphics cards, which will supplement the existing Mesa drivers: anv (Intel), radv (AMD), tu (Qualcomm), and v3dv (Broadcom VideoCore VI). The driver is being developed on the basis of the Nouveau project, utilizing some subsystems previously used in the OpenGL driver Nouveau. Meanwhile, in Nouveau, […]

Another vulnerability in the Linux Netfilter kernel subsystem

A vulnerability (CVE-2022-1972) has been identified in the Netfilter kernel subsystem, similar to the issue disclosed at the end of May. The new vulnerability also allows a local user to gain root privileges in the system through manipulations with rules in nftables and requires access to nftables, which can be obtained in a separate namespace (network namespace or user namespace) with CLONE_NEWUSER rights, […]

Coreboot 4.17 Release

The release of CoreBoot 4.17 has been published, in which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version was developed by 150 contributors who prepared over 1300 changes. Key changes: A vulnerability (CVE-2022-29264) has been fixed, which was present in CoreBoot releases from 4.13 to 4.16 and allowed on systems with an AP (Application Processor) […]

Release of Tails 5.1 distribution

The release of the specialized Tails 5.1 distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and intended for anonymous internet access, has been formed. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are by default blocked by the packet filter. User data is encrypted when saved between sessions, […]

Wine 7.10 and Wine staging 7.10 have been released.

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.10 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.9, 56 bug reports have been closed and 388 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the macOS driver has been transitioned to use the PE (Portable Executable) format instead of ELF. The Wine Mono engine implementing the .NET platform has been updated to version 7.3. Compatible with Windows […]

Paragon Software has resumed support for the NTFS3 module in the Linux kernel.

Konstantin Komarov, founder and head of Paragon Software, proposed the inclusion of the first corrective update for the ntfs3 driver in Linux kernel 5.19. Since the inclusion of ntfs3 in kernel 5.15 last October, the driver has not been updated, and communication with the developers was lost, leading to discussions about the need to classify the NTFS3 code as 'orphaned' […]

Replicant update, a fully free Android firmware.

After four and a half years since the last update, the fourth release of the Replicant project 6 has been formed, developing a fully open version of the Android platform, free from proprietary components and closed drivers. The Replicant 6 branch is built on the codebase of LineageOS 13, which in turn is based on Android 6. Compared to the original firmware, a large portion has been replaced in Replicant […]

For Chrome, they are developing an automatic spam-blocking mode in notifications

A mode for automatic spam blocking in push notifications has been proposed for inclusion in the Chromium codebase. It has been noted that spam through push notifications is among the most common complaints sent to Google support. The proposed protection mechanism will address the spam issue in notifications and will be applied at the user's discretion. To manage the activation of the new mode, the parameter "chrome://flags#disruptive-notification-permission-revocation" has been implemented, which allows users to control this feature.

Linux is being ported for Apple iPad tablets with A7 and A8 chips

Enthusiasts have successfully booted the Linux 5.18 kernel on Apple iPad tablets powered by ARM A7 and A8 chips. Currently, the work is limited to adapting Linux for iPad Air, iPad Air 2, and some iPad mini devices, but there are no fundamental issues in applying these developments to other devices running on Apple A7 and A8 chips.

Release of the Armbian 22.05 distribution

The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 22.05 has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including models such as Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard, based on processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. The builds are formed using Debian package bases.

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