Two years after the formation of the last significant release, the service manager GNU Shepherd 0.9 (formerly dmd) was published, which is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System distribution as an alternative to the SysV-init initialization system that supports dependencies. Shepherd's control daemon and utilities are written in Guile (an implementation of the Scheme language), which is also used to define startup settings and […]
The release of Zulip 5, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers, suitable for organizing communication between employees and development teams, took place. The project was originally developed by Zulip and opened after its takeover by Dropbox under an Apache 2.0 license. The server side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and […]
The release of the TeX Live 2022 distribution kit, created in 1996 based on the teTeX project, has been prepared. TeX Live is the easiest way to deploy a scientific documentation infrastructure, regardless of the operating system you are using. An assembly (4 GB) of TeX Live 2021 has been generated for download, which contains a working Live environment, a complete set of installation files for various operating systems, a copy of the CTAN repository […]
The GNU Project has published the release of the GNU Emacs 28.1 text editor. Until the release of GNU Emacs 24.5, the project developed under the personal leadership of Richard Stallman, who handed over the post of project leader to John Wiegley in the fall of 2015. Among the added improvements: Provided the ability to compile Lisp files into executable code using the libgccjit library, instead of using JIT compilation. To enable inline compilation [...]
A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 4.29 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in the user data saving mode between launches, […]
For implementation in Fedora Linux 37, it is planned to transfer UEFI support to the category of mandatory requirements for installing a distribution on the x86_64 platform. The ability to boot previously installed environments on systems with a traditional BIOS will remain for some time, but support for new installations in non-UEFI mode will be discontinued. In Fedora 39 or later, BIOS support is expected to be removed completely. […]
Canonical announced the termination of cooperation, the provision of paid support services and the provision of commercial services for organizations from Russia. At the same time, Canonical stated that it will not restrict access to repositories and patches that eliminate vulnerabilities for Ubuntu users from Russia, as it believes that free platforms such as Ubuntu, Tor and VPN technologies are important for […]
The Firefox 99 web browser has been released. In addition, a long-term support branch update has been created - 91.8.0. The Firefox 100 branch has been transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for May 3. Key new features in Firefox 99: Added support for native GTK context menus. The feature is enabled via the "widget.gtk.native-context-menus" parameter in about:config. Added GTK floating scrollbars (full scrollbar […]
The release of the FerretDB 0.1 project (formerly MangoDB) has been published, allowing you to replace the document-oriented DBMS MongoDB with PostgreSQL without making changes to the application code. FerretDB is implemented as a proxy server that translates calls to MangoDB into SQL queries to PostgreSQL, allowing PostgreSQL to be used as the actual storage. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The need to migrate may arise [...]
The GOST Eyepiece application has been published, which is a branch of the Okular document viewer developed by the KDE project, expanded with support for GOST hash algorithms in the functions of checking and electronically signing PDF files. The program supports simple (CAdES BES) and advanced (CAdES-X Type 1) CAdES embedded signature formats. Cryptoprovider CryptoPro is used to generate and verify signatures. In addition, many corrections have been made to the GOST Eyepiece [...]
The developers of the Nitrux project presented the first alpha release of the Maui Shell user environment, developed in accordance with the “Convergence” concept, which implies the ability to work with the same applications both on the touch screens of smartphones and tablets, and on large screens of laptops and PCs. Maui Shell automatically adapts to screen size and available input methods, and can […]
GitHub announced that it has strengthened protection against sensitive data that was inadvertently left in the code by developers from entering its repositories. For example, it happens that configuration files with DBMS passwords, tokens or API access keys end up in the repository. Previously, scanning was carried out in passive mode and made it possible to identify leaks that had already occurred and were included in the repository. To prevent GitHub leaks, additional […]
