An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.3 has occurred. Since the release of version 7.2, 15 bug reports have been closed and 650 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Continued support for the 'long' type in the code (over 230 changes). Proper support for Windows API sets has been implemented. Ongoing translation of USER32 and WineALSA libraries to use the PE executable file format […]
The first experimental release of the Neptune OS project has been published, which develops a layer over the seL4 microkernel with the implementation of Windows NT kernel components, aimed at providing support for running Windows applications. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project implements 'NT Executive', one of the levels of the Windows NT kernel (NTOSKRNL.EXE), responsible for providing NT Native system call APIs and an interface for driver operation. In Neptune […]
During the discussion of a set of patches fixing issues related to Spectre-class vulnerabilities in the code for linked list processing, it became clear that the problem could be solved more elegantly if the kernel allowed C code corresponding to a newer version of the standard. Currently, the code added to the kernel must comply with the ANSI C (C89) specification, […]
After more than a year of development, a new release of the dahliaOS 220222 operating system has been published, combining technologies from GNU/Linux and the Fuchsia OS. The project's developments are written in Dart and are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. dahliaOS builds are available in two variants — for UEFI systems (675 MB) and older systems/virtual machines (437 MB). The base distribution of dahliaOS is built on […]
The Mir 2.7 display server release has been presented, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and Ubuntu editions for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing applications to run in environments […]
An update for the Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS distribution has been released, which includes changes related to improved hardware support, updates to the Linux kernel and graphics stack, and bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. Also included are up-to-date updates for several hundred packages aimed at fixing vulnerabilities and stability issues. Concurrently, similar updates have been released for Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.4 LTS, Kubuntu […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings — NetworkManager 1.36.0 — is now available. Plugins for VPN support, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN, and OpenSWAN are being developed within their respective development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.36 include a significant overhaul of IP address configuration code, but the changes mostly affect internal handlers. For users, everything should work as before, except for a slight performance boost, […]
After six months of development, OpenSSH 8.9 has been released, providing an open implementation of a client and server for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. In this version, a vulnerability has been fixed in sshd that could potentially allow access without authentication. The issue was caused by an integer overflow in the authentication code, but exploitation is only possible when combined with other logical errors in the code. In the current […]
Intel Corporation has announced the acquisition of Linutronix, a company that develops technologies for using Linux in industrial systems. Linutronix is also overseeing the development of the RT branch of the Linux kernel (‘Realtime-Preempt’, PREEMPT_RT or ‘-rt’), aimed at systems operating in real-time mode. The position of technical director at Linutronix is held by Thomas Gleixner, the main developer of the PREEMPT_RT patches and maintainer […]
Matthew Wilcox of Oracle, known for creating the nvme (NVM Express) driver and the direct access mechanism for the DAX filesystem, has proposed removing the ReiserFS filesystem from the Linux kernel, similar to previously removed outdated filesystems ext and xiafs, or reducing the ReiserFS code to retain only read-only support. The motive for removal […]
The company iXsystems, which develops a distribution for the rapid deployment of network storage FreeNAS and commercial products based on it such as TrueNAS, has released the first stable version of the TrueNAS SCALE distribution, notable for using the Linux kernel and Debian package base, while all previously released products of this company, including TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD), were based on FreeBSD. Like TrueNAS CORE […]
The NPM repository has identified 25 malicious packages that were distributed using typosquatting, i.e., with names similar to those of popular libraries, intending for users to make a typing error or not notice the differences when selecting a module from the list. 17 of these packages contained malicious code to search for Discord tokens in the local file system and […]