Google has presented the second test version of the open mobile platform Android 13. The release of Android 13 is expected in the third quarter of 2022. To evaluate the new capabilities of the platform, a preliminary testing program is proposed. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, Pixel 4 / 4 XL / 4a / 4a (5G) devices. For those who installed the first test release [...]
At the LibrePlanet 2022 conference, which, as in the past two years, was held online, a virtual awards ceremony was held to announce the winners of the annual Free Software Awards 2021, established by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and awarded to people who have made the most significant contributions to the development of free software, as well as socially significant free projects. Commemorative plaques and […]
The release of the rclone 1.58 utility has been published, which is an analogue of rsync, designed to copy and synchronize data between the local system and various cloud storages, such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Mail.ru Cloud and Yandex.Disk. The project code is written in the Go language and distributed under the […]
Corrective updates to the stable branches of the BIND DNS server 9.11.37, 9.16.27 and 9.18.1 have been published, which eliminate four vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-25220 - the ability to substitute incorrect NS records into the DNS server cache (cache poisoning), which may result in access to incorrect DNS servers that provide false information. The problem manifests itself in resolvers operating in “forward first” (default) or “forward only” modes, subject to compromise […]
The Asahi project, aimed at porting Linux to run on Mac computers equipped with the Apple M1 ARM chip (Apple Silicon), presented the first alpha release of the reference distribution, allowing anyone to get acquainted with the current level of development of the project. The distribution supports installation on devices with M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max. It is noted that the assemblies are not yet ready for widespread use by ordinary users, but […]
Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, proposed the release of v5 components for developing device drivers in the Rust language for consideration by Linux kernel developers. This is the sixth edition of the patches, taking into account the first version, published without a version number. Rust support is considered experimental, but has already been included in the linux-next branch and is mature enough to start working on […]
The VideoLAN and FFmpeg communities have published the release of the dav1d 1.0.0 library with the implementation of an alternative free decoder for the AV1 video encoding format. The project code is written in C (C99) with assembly inserts (NASM/GAS) and is distributed under the BSD license. Support for x86, x86_64, ARMv7 and ARMv8 architectures, and operating systems FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS has been implemented. The dav1d library supports […]
The release of the Pale Moon 30.0 web browser has been published, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide higher performance, retain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are generated for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classical organization of the interface, without […]
Mozilla has launched a new method for identifying browser installations. Assemblies distributed from the official website, delivered in the form of exe files for the Windows platform, are supplied with dltoken identifiers, unique for each download. Accordingly, several successive downloads of the installation archive for the same platform result in downloading files with different checksums, since the identifiers are added directly […]
A malicious change was detected in the node-ipc NPM package (CVE-2022-23812), with a 25% probability that the contents of all files that have write access are replaced with the “❤️” character. The malicious code is activated only when launched on systems with IP addresses from Russia or Belarus. The node-ipc package has about a million downloads per week and is used as a dependency on 354 packages, including vue-cli. […]
The US Court of Appeals upheld the district court's earlier decision in a case against PureThink related to Neo4j Inc.'s intellectual property infringement. The lawsuit concerns violation of the Neo4j trademark and the use of false statements in advertising during the distribution of the Neo4j DBMS fork. Initially, the Neo4j DBMS developed as an open project, supplied under the AGPLv3 license. Over time, the product […]
The GCC compiler suite developer mailing list features the gcobol project, which aims to create a free compiler for the COBOL programming language. In its current form, gcobol is being developed as a fork of GCC, but after completion of development and stabilization of the project, changes are planned to be proposed for inclusion in the main structure of GCC. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. As a reason for creating a new project [...]
