The maintenance period for the LTS branch of the Debian 9 "Stretch" distribution, formed in 2017, has come to an end. The release of updates for the LTS branch was handled by a separate LTS Team, made up of enthusiasts and representatives of companies interested in a long-term supply of updates for Debian. In the near future, the initiative group will start forming a new LTS branch based on Debian 10 "Buster", […]
The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.17 has been published, which can be used on various portable devices, boards and car infotainment systems. Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and development is curated by the community, adhering to a collaborative development management model. The webOS platform was originally developed by […]
The release of the InstantCMS 2.15.2 web content management system is available, from the features of which a well-developed system of social interaction and the use of "content types" are distinguished, which are somewhat reminiscent of Joomla. Based on InstantCMS, you can create projects of any complexity, from a personal blog and landing page to corporate portals. The project uses the MVC (model, view, controller) model. The code is written in PHP and distributed under the […]
After six months of development, a stable release of the protocol, interprocess communication mechanism and Wayland 1.21 libraries is presented. The 1.21 branch is API and ABI backward compatible with the 1.x releases and contains mostly bug fixes and minor protocol updates. A few days ago, a corrective update was generated for the Weston 10.0.1 composite server, which is being developed as part of a separate development cycle. Weston […]
The developers of the Ubuntu Unity project, which develops an unofficial edition of Ubuntu Linux with the Unity desktop, announced the formation of a stable release of the user shell Unity 7.6. The Unity 7 skin is based on the GTK library and is optimized for efficient vertical space usage on widescreen laptops. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready packages are formed for Ubuntu 22.04. The latest significant release […]
The release of the Rust 1.62 general-purpose programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]
The developers of the Packj platform, which analyzes library security, have published an open command-line toolkit that allows you to identify risky constructs in packages that may be associated with the implementation of malicious activity or the presence of vulnerabilities that are used to attack projects using the packages in question ("supply chain"). It supports checking Python and JavaScript packages hosted in the PyPi and NPM directories (this […]
The GCC Compiler Set Developers Mailing List has posted a status report on the Rust-GCC project, which develops the gccrs GCC front-end with a GCC-based implementation of the Rust compiler. Until November of this year, it is planned to bring gccrs to the ability to build code supported by the Rust 1.40 compiler, and to successfully compile and use the standard Rust libraries libcore, liballoc and libstd. In the following after that […]
The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled away from it, has published an OTA-23 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed to Lomiri. Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 update is for BQ E4.5/E5/M10/U Plus, Cosmo Communicator, F(x)tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google […]
The release of the framework for reverse engineering Rizin and the associated graphical shell Cutter. The Rizin project started as a fork of the Radare2 framework and continued its development with a focus on a convenient API and a focus on code analysis without forensics. Since the fork, the project has moved to a fundamentally different mechanism for saving the session (“projects”) as state based on serialization. Except […]
Collabora has published the release of the CODE 22.5 (Collabora Online Development Edition) platform, which offers a specialized distribution kit for quickly deploying LibreOffice Online and organizing remote collaboration with the office suite via the Web to achieve functionality similar to Google Docs and Office 365. The distribution kit is designed as a preconfigured container for the Docker system and is also available as packages for […]
The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 22.06 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the ModemManager phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics in Plasma Mobile, and PulseAudio is used for sound processing. At the same time, a set of mobile applications Plasma Mobile Gear 22.06 was prepared, which is […]
