The release of the Pale Moon 31.1 web browser has been published, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide higher performance, retain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are generated for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classical organization of the interface, without […]
The developers of the Pyston project, which offers a high-performance implementation of the Python language using modern JIT compilation technologies, presented the Pyston-lite extension with an implementation of the JIT compiler for CPython. While Pyston is a branch of the CPython codebase and is developed separately, Pyston-lite is designed as a universal extension designed to connect to the standard Python interpreter (CPython). Pyston-lite allows you to use core Pyston technologies without changing the interpreter, […]
GitHub has announced that it will no longer develop the Atom code editor. On December 15th of this year, all projects in the Atom repositories will be switched to archive mode and will become read-only. Instead of Atom, GitHub intends to focus its attention on the more popular open source editor Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code), which at one time was created as […]
After a year of development, the openSUSE Leap 15.4 distribution was released. The release is based on the same set of binary packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 4 with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. Using the same binary packages in SUSE and openSUSE simplifies switching between distributions, saves resources on building packages, […]
2 vulnerabilities have been fixed in the GRUB7 bootloader that allow you to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism and run unverified code, for example, introduce malware running at the bootloader or kernel level. Additionally, there is one vulnerability in the shim layer, which also allows you to bypass UEFI Secure Boot. The group of vulnerabilities was codenamed Boothole 3, by analogy with similar problems previously […]
The release of the ELKS 0.6 (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) project has been published, developing a Linux-like operating system for 16-bit processors Intel 8086, 8088, 80188, 80186, 80286 and NEC V20/V30. The OS can be used both on older IBM-PC XT/AT class computers and on SBC/SoC/FPGAs recreating the IA16 architecture. The project has been developing since 1995 and began […]
The lightweight http server lighttpd 1.4.65 has been released, trying to combine high performance, security, compliance with standards and flexibility of configuration. Lighttpd is suitable for use on highly loaded systems and is aimed at low memory and CPU consumption. The new version contains 173 changes. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. Main innovations: Added support for WebSocket over […]
After a year of development, SUSE presented the release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 distribution. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Manager and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing are formed. The distribution is free to download and use, but access to updates and patches is limited to 60 days […]
The beta release of a new significant branch of the Thunderbird 102 email client, based on the code base of the ESR release of Firefox 102, has been presented. The release is scheduled for June 28. The most noticeable changes: A client for the Matrix decentralized communications system has been integrated. The implementation supports advanced features such as end-to-end encryption, sending invitations, lazy loading of participants, and editing of sent messages. A new Import and Export Wizard has been added that supports […]
The developers of the D programming language presented the release of the main reference compiler DMD 2.100.0, which supports GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD systems. The compiler code is distributed under the free BSL (Boost Software License). D is statically typed, has a syntax similar to C/C++, and provides the performance of compiled languages, while borrowing some of the efficiency benefits of dynamic languages […]
Release of Rakudo 2022.06, a compiler for the Raku programming language (formerly Perl 6), has been released. The project was renamed from Perl 6 because it did not become a continuation of Perl 5, as originally expected, but turned into a separate programming language that is not compatible with Perl 5 at the source code level and is developed by a separate development community. The compiler supports the Raku language variants described in […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which is responsible for the development of Internet protocols and architecture, has completed the formation of an RFC for the HTTP/3.0 protocol and published related specifications under the identifiers RFC 9114 (protocol) and RFC 9204 (QPACK header compression technology for HTTP/3) . The HTTP/3.0 specification has received the status of a "Proposed Standard", after which work will begin to give the RFC the status of a draft standard (Draft […]
