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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of the FFmpeg 5.0 multimedia package

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After ten months of development, the multimedia package FFmpeg 5.0 is available, including a set of applications and a collection of libraries for operations on various multimedia formats (recording, converting, and decoding audio and video formats). The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, with FFmpeg development closely aligned with the MPlayer project. The significant version number change is due to substantial alterations in the API and the transition to a new configuration scheme […]

Essence — a unique operating system with its own kernel and graphical shell.

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A new operating system, Essence, is now available for initial testing, complete with its own kernel and user interface. Developed by a single enthusiast since 2017, it has been built from scratch and is notable for its original approach to desktop and graphical stack construction. A key feature is the ability to split windows into tabs, allowing multitasking within a single window […]

Release of the Mumble 1.4 Voice Communication Platform

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After more than two years of development, the release of Mumble 1.4 has been announced, a platform aimed at creating voice chats that ensure low latency and high voice quality. Mumble's primary use case is facilitating communication among players during gameplay. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. Builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The project […]

The fourth edition of patches for the Linux kernel with Rust language support.

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Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed a fourth option for developers of Linux kernel device driver components in Rust. Support for Rust is viewed as experimental but is already agreed upon for inclusion in the linux-next branch and is sufficiently developed to begin creating abstraction layers over kernel subsystems, as well as writing drivers and […]

Release of GhostBSD 22.01.12

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The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 22.01.12 has been published, built on FreeBSD 13-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD utilizes the ZFS file system. It supports both Live mode and installation on a hard drive (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). The boot images are prepared for the x86_64 architecture (2.58 GB). In the new version, […]

Release of SystemRescue 9.0.0

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The release of SystemRescue 9.0.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. Xfce is used as the graphical environment. The size of the ISO image is 771 MB (amd64, i686). Changes in the new version include the translation of the system initialization script from Bash to Python, as well as the implementation of initial support for system parameter settings and autostart (autorun) when […]

Record labels have filed a lawsuit for providing hosting to the Youtube-dl project.

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The recording companies Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music have filed a lawsuit in Germany against the provider Uberspace, which offers hosting for the official site of the youtube-dl project. In response to a previously sent extrajudicial request to block youtube-dl, Uberspace refused to shut down the site and disagreed with the claims made against it. The plaintiffs insist that youtube-dl is […]

A violation of backward compatibility in a popular NPM package has caused failures in various projects.

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The NPM repository is experiencing another massive failure affecting projects due to issues arising from a new version of one of the popular dependencies. The source of the problems is the new release of the mini-css-extract-plugin 2.5.0 package, designed to extract CSS into separate files. The package has over 10 million weekly downloads and is used as a direct dependency by more than 7,000 projects. In […]

In Chromium and Chromium-based browsers, the removal of search engines is limited.

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Google has removed the option to delete default search engines from the Chromium codebase. In the 'Manage Search Engines' section of the configurator (chrome://settings/searchEngines), elements from the list of default search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) can no longer be deleted. This change has been in effect since the release of Chromium 97 and has also affected all browsers based on it, including the latest releases of Microsoft […]

A vulnerability in cryptsetup that allows disabling encryption on LUKS2 partitions.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2021-4122) has been discovered in the Cryptsetup package, which is used for encrypting disk partitions in Linux. This vulnerability allows an attacker to disable encryption in partitions formatted with LUKS2 (Linux Unified Key Setup) through metadata modification. To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must have physical access to the encrypted medium, meaning this method is primarily useful for attacking encrypted external drives, such as flash drives, […]

Release of the Qbs build tool 1.21 and the start of testing Qt 6.3

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The Qbs build toolchain version 1.21 has been released. This is the eighth release since the Qt Company ceased development of the project, prepared by a community interested in continuing Qbs development. Qt is required for building Qbs, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the building of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define build scripts, which allows […]

The Tor project has released Arti 0.0.3, a Tor client implementation in Rust.

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The developers of the anonymous Tor network have announced the release of the Arti 0.0.3 project, which is developing a Tor client written in Rust. The project is in experimental development, lacking the functionality of the main Tor client written in C, and is not yet ready to replace it fully. The release of version 0.1.0 is expected in March, which is positioned as the first beta release of the project, and a 1.0 release with API stabilization is planned for the fall, […]

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