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On June 18-19, an online conference of open source developers will be held - Adminka 2022

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On June 18-19, an online conference "Adminka" for open source software developers will be held. The event is open, non-commercial and free. Pre-registration is required to participate. The conference is planned to discuss changes and trends in open source development after February 24, the emergence of protest software (Protestware), the prospects for implementing open source software in organizations, open solutions for maintaining […]

At the end of June, youth competitions on Linux will be held

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On June 20, the III annual children's and youth Linux competition - "CacTUX 2022" will start. As part of the competition, participants will have to move from MS Windows to Linux, keeping all documents, install programs, configure the environment, and configure the local network. Registration is open from 13 to 22 June 2022 inclusive. Competitions will be held from June 20 to July 04 in two stages: […]

About 73 thousand tokens and passwords of open projects were revealed in the public logs of Travis CI

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Aqua Security has published the results of a study on the presence of sensitive data in build logs publicly available in the Travis CI continuous integration system. Researchers have found a way to extract 770 million logs from various projects. During a test load of 8 million logs, about 73 tokens, credentials, and access keys associated with various popular services, including […]

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 open engine release - fheroes2 - 0.9.16

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The fheroes2 0.9.16 project release is available, which recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, game resource files are required, which can be obtained, for example, from the demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II or from the original game. Main changes: Completely redesigned […]

Release of postmarketOS 22.06, a Linux distribution for smartphones and mobile devices

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The release of the postmarketOS 22.06 project is presented, which develops a Linux distribution for smartphones based on the Alpine Linux package base, the Musl standard C library and the BusyBox utility set. The goal of the project is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones that does not depend on the official firmware support life cycle and is not tied to standard solutions of the main industry players that set the development vector. Assemblies prepared for PINE64 PinePhone, […]

Crash in the FreeDesktop GitLab infrastructure affecting the repositories of many projects

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The development infrastructure supported by the FreeDesktop community based on the GitLab platform (gitlab.freedesktop.org) was unavailable due to the failure of two SSD drives at once in a distributed storage based on the Ceph FS. No predictions are made yet as to whether it will be possible to restore all up-to-date data of internal GitLab services (mirrors worked for git repositories, but bug tracking and code review […]

Alpha testing of PHP 8.2 has begun

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The first alpha release of the new branch of the PHP 8.2 programming language has been presented. The release is scheduled for November 24th. The main innovations already available for testing or planned for implementation in PHP 8.2: Separate "false" and "null" types have been added, which can be used, for example, to return an error or an empty value to a function. Previously, "false" and "null" could only be used in […]

Vulnerability in firejail allowing root access to the system

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-31214) has been identified in the Firejail Application Sandboxing Tool that could allow a local user to become root on the host system. There is a working exploit in the public domain, tested in current releases of openSUSE, Debian, Arch, Gentoo and Fedora with the firejail utility installed. The issue has been fixed in the release of firejail 0.9.70. As a workaround, protection can be set in the settings (/etc/firejail/firejail.config) […]

Bottlerocket 1.8 is available, a distribution based on isolated containers

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The release of the Bottlerocket 1.8.0 Linux distribution has been published, developed with the participation of Amazon to effectively and safely run isolated containers. The toolkit and control components of the distribution are written in Rust and distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. It supports running Bottlerocket on Amazon ECS, VMware, and AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, as well as creating custom builds and editions that […]

Release of EasyOS 4.0, the original distribution from the creator of Puppy Linux

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Barry Kauler, founder of the Puppy Linux project, has published an experimental EasyOS 4.0 distribution that combines Puppy Linux technologies with containerized isolation to run system components. The distribution kit is managed through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. The size of the boot image is 773MB. Distribution features: Each application, as well as the desktop itself, can be run in separate containers, to isolate […]

Apache 2.4.54 http server release with vulnerabilities fixed

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The release of Apache HTTP server 2.4.53 has been published, which presents 19 changes and eliminates 8 vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-31813 - a vulnerability in mod_proxy that allows blocking the sending of X-Forwarded-* headers with information about the IP address from which the initial request. The problem can be used to bypass access restrictions based on IP addresses. CVE-2022-30556 is a vulnerability in mod_lua that allows access to data outside […]

Cinnamon 5.4 desktop environment release

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After 6 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.4 user environment has been formed, within which the community of developers of the Linux Mint distribution is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing an environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell . Cinnamon is based on the GNOME components, but those […]

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