After almost two years of development, the release of the Turnkey Linux 17 set has been prepared, within which a collection of 119 minimalistic Debian builds is being developed, suitable for use in virtualization systems and cloud environments. From the collection, only two ready-made assemblies have currently been formed based on branch 17 - core (339 MB) with the basic environment and tkldev (419 MB) […]
Developers from SUSE have shared the first plans for the development of a future significant branch of the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution, which is presented under the code name ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). The new branch plans to offer some radical changes, both in the distribution itself and in the methods of its development. In particular, SUSE intends to move away from the SUSE Linux provisioning model […]
A bootable image for Raspberry Pi boards is available for testing, based on Debian GNU/Linux and supplied with a set of open firmware from the LibreRPi project. The image was created using the standard Debian 11 repositories for the armhf architecture and is distinguished by the delivery of the librepi-firmware package prepared on the basis of the rpi-open-firmware firmware. The firmware development state has been brought to a level suitable for running the Xfce desktop. […]
PGCAC (PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada), which represents the interests of the PostgreSQL community and acting on behalf of the PostgreSQL Core Team, has called on the Fundación PostgreSQL to fulfill its previous promises and transfer rights to registered trademarks and domain names associated with PostgreSQL. It is noted that on September 14, 2021, the day after the public disclosure of the conflict caused by the fact that […]
Corrective releases of the distributed source control system Git 2.35.2, 2.30.3, 2.31.2, 2.32.1, 2.33.2 and 2.34.2 have been published, which fix two vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24765 - on multi-user systems with shared The directories used have identified the possibility of organizing an attack leading to the launch of commands defined by another user. An attacker could create a ".git" directory in locations that overlap with other users (for example, in a shared […]
Corrective releases of the Ruby programming language 3.1.2, 3.0.4, 2.7.6, 2.6.10 have been generated, in which two vulnerabilities are eliminated: CVE-2022-28738 - double-free memory in the regular expression compilation code, which occurs when passing a specially formatted string when creating a Regexp object. The vulnerability can be exploited by using untrusted external data in a Regexp object. CVE-2022-28739 - Buffer overflow in conversion code […]
A maintenance release of Firefox 99.0.1 is available, which fixes several bugs: The problem with moving the mouse over elements from the Download panel has been fixed (regardless of which element they tried to move, only the first element was selected for transfer). Problems with Zoom that occurred when using a link to zoom.us without specifying a subdomain have been resolved. Fixed a Windows platform-specific bug that […]
The Qt Company has published a release of the Qt 6.3 framework, in which work continues to stabilize and increase the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.3 provides support for the platforms Windows 10, macOS 10.14+, Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8.2, openSUSE 15.3, SUSE 15 SP2) , iOS 13+, Android 6+ (API 23+), webOS, INTEGRITY and QNX. The source code for Qt components is supplied […]
Perforce, a company developing commercial version control systems, software lifecycle management and coordination of developer collaboration, announced the acquisition of Puppet, a company coordinating the development of an open tool of the same name for centralized server configuration management. The transaction, the amount of which is not disclosed, is planned to be completed in the second quarter of 2022. It is noted that Puppet will merge into Perforce in the form of a separate business unit and will […]
The release of the Pharo 10 project, which develops a dialect of the Smalltalk programming language, was provided. Pharo is a fork of the Squeak project, which was developed by Alan Kay, the author of Smalltalk. In addition to implementing a programming language, Pharo also provides a virtual machine for running code, an integrated development environment, a debugger, and a set of libraries, including libraries for developing graphical interfaces. The project code is distributed under the license [...]
Canonical has published the release of container manager LXD 5.0 and virtual file system LXCFS 5.0. The LXD code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The 5.0 branch is classified as a long-term support release - updates will be generated until June 2027. As a runtime for running as containers, the LXC toolkit is used, which includes […]
The open speech synthesis system RHVoice 1.8.0 was released, initially developed to provide high-quality support for the Russian language, but then adapted for other languages, including English, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Georgian. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Supports work on GNU/Linux, Windows and Android. The program is compatible with standard TTS (text-to-speech) interfaces for […]
