Cassidy Blaede, co-founder of the elementary OS distribution, announced his withdrawal from the project. Since 2018, Cassidy has been developing elementary OS full-time. Initially, due to financial issues at elementary Inc, Cassidy sought new employment to free up resources being spent on his salary, […]
The beta release of the Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" distribution has been introduced, after which a complete freeze of the package base has been made, and developers have moved on to final testing and bug fixing. The release, classified as a long-term support (LTS) release, with updates provided for 5 years until 2027, is scheduled for April 21. Ready test images have been created for […]
The release of the Deepin 20.5 distribution has been published, based on the Debian 10 package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 40 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, installer, and software installation center Deepin Software Center. The project is developed by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. […]
Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-1162) related to the installation of hardcoded passwords for accounts registered using the OmniAuth provider (OAuth, LDAP, and SAML) have been fixed in the corrective updates of the collaborative development platform GitLab versions 14.7.7, 14.8.5, and 14.9.2. This vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to gain access to the account. All users are urgently recommended to install the update. Details of the issue are still not disclosed. […]
The release of FreeType 2.12.0 has been announced, a modular font engine that provides a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data across various vector and raster formats. Among the changes: Support has been added for the OpenType-SVG (OT-SVG) font format, which allows the creation of colored OpenType fonts. A key feature of OT-SVG is the ability to use multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph. All glyphs or some glyphs are represented […]
The developers of the YaST installer, used in openSUSE and SUSE Linux, have presented the first installation image featuring the new installer developed under the D-Installer project, which supports installation management through a web interface. The prepared image is intended to familiarize users with the capabilities of D-Installer and provides tools for installing the continuously updated openSUSE Tumbleweed edition. D-Installer is currently positioned as an experimental project, and the first release can be […]
The developers of the SerenityOS operating system have reported that the web browser developed by the project has successfully passed the Acid3 tests, which are used to check web browsers for support of web standards. It is noted that among the new open-source browsers created after the development of Acid3, the SerenityOS Browser is the first project to pass the tests completely. The Acid3 test suite was created in 2008 by Ian Hickson, the initiator of the HTML5 specification, and […]
The release of the Bottlerocket 1.7.0 Linux distribution, developed with the participation of Amazon for the efficient and secure launch of isolated containers, has been published. The tools and management components of the distribution are written in Rust and are distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. Bottlerocket supports deployment in Amazon ECS clusters, VMware, and AWS EKS Kubernetes, as well as the creation of arbitrary builds and editions that allow the use of […]
A critical 0-day vulnerability has been detected in the Spring Core module, part of the Spring Framework, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute their code on the server. It is still unclear how catastrophic the consequences of this issue may be and whether the attacks will be as widespread as those observed with the Log4j 2 vulnerability. The vulnerability has been assigned the code name Spring4Shell, but the CVE identifier is still […]
Google has announced the release of the web browser Chrome 100. At the same time, the stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which is the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser features Google logos, a notification system for crashes, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), automatic update installation, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 101, is scheduled for April 26. […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of MirageOS 4.0 has been published, allowing the creation of single-application operating systems. In these systems, applications are delivered as self-contained unikernels that can run without operating systems, a separate OS kernel, or any intermediaries. The programming language OCaml is used for developing applications. The project code is distributed under the ISC open license. All low-level functionality typical of an operating system is implemented in […]
The release of the live distribution Finnix 124 is now available, marking the 22nd anniversary of the project. The distribution is based on the Debian package base and supports console-only operation, but includes a solid collection of utilities for administrative needs. It contains 584 packages with various utilities. The size of the ISO image is 455 MB. In the new version: The wifi-connect utility now runs without command line parameters […]