The release of the uutils coreutils 0.0.12 toolkit has been introduced, developing an analog of the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in Rust. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Concurrently, the uutils findutils 0.3.0 package has been released with the implementation of GNU […]
Mozilla has released an update to the Common Voice datasets, which include pronunciation samples from approximately 200,000 people. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed datasets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection has increased by 30% — from 13.9 to 18.2 […]
The release of Bottles 2022.1.28 has been announced, developing an application designed to simplify the installation, configuration, and execution of Windows applications on Linux using Wine or Proton. The program provides an interface for managing prefixes that define the Wine environment and parameters for launching applications, as well as tools for installing dependencies necessary for the correct operation of the launched programs. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under […]
Information about the vulnerability (CVE-2021-4160) in the OpenSSL cryptographic library has been revealed, caused by an error in the implementation of the summator in the BN_mod_exp function, leading to incorrect results in square operations. The issue only manifests on hardware based on MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures and could compromise algorithms based on elliptic curves, including those used by default in TLS 1.3. The problem […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 7.1 has taken place. Since the release of 7.0, 42 bug reports have been closed and 408 changes have been made. As a reminder, starting from the 2.x branch, the Wine project switched to a versioning scheme where each stable release leads to an increase in the first digit of the version number (6.0.0, 7.0.0), while updates to […]
The release of the authoritative DNS server, PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6, has been announced, which is intended for managing DNS zones. According to the project's developers, PowerDNS Authoritative Server serves approximately 30% of all domains in Europe (and 90% of DNSSEC-signed domains). The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. PowerDNS Authoritative Server provides the capability to store information about domains […]
The release of the distributed DBMS rqlite 7.0 has taken place, which uses SQLite as a storage engine and allows for the organization of a cluster of synchronized storage systems. Notable features of rqlite include the ease of installation, deployment, and maintenance of a distributed fault-tolerant storage solution, similar to etcd and Consul, but utilizing a relational model for handling data instead of key/value format. The project code is written in […]
The release of the OPNsense 22.1 firewall distribution has taken place, which is a derivative of the pfSense project, created with the goal of forming a fully open distribution that can provide functionality on par with commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company and is developed with direct community involvement and has […]
A corrective release of Firefox 96.0.3 is now available, along with a new release of the long-term support branch, Firefox 91.5.1, which fixes a bug that, under certain circumstances, led to the transmission of excess data to the telemetry collection server. The overall share of unwanted data among all event records on the telemetry servers is estimated at 0.0013% for the desktop version of Firefox and 0.0005% for the Android version of Firefox […]
After two years of development, the ISC consortium has released the first stable version of the new significant branch of the DNS server BIND 9.18. Support for branch 9.18 will be provided for three years until the second quarter of 2025 as part of an extended maintenance cycle. Support for branch 9.11 will cease in March, and for branch 9.16 in mid-2023. To enhance functionality for the next stable version of BIND […]
The nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone, has announced an early revocation of approximately two million TLS certificates, which accounts for about 1% of all active certificates from this certificate authority. The revocation of certificates was initiated due to the discovery of non-compliance with specification requirements in the code used by Let’s Encrypt implementing the TLS-ALPN-01 extension (RFC 7301, Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation). […]
The SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library's codebase now includes a default change that enables operation based on the Wayland protocol in environments that support both Wayland and X11 simultaneously. Previously, in Wayland environments with the XWayland component, output was activated using X11 by default, and applications needed to be launched with special settings to use Wayland. This change will be part of the release […]