The release of the main branch nginx 1.21.4 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (the parallel stable branch 1.20 only receives changes related to fixing critical bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes: Support for establishing HTTP/2 connections using the NPN (Next Protocol Negotiation) extension instead of ALPN has been discontinued; SSL connections are now closed when the client uses the ALPN extension if during […]
Red Hat has announced the first beta version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution. Ready installation images are prepared for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (ISO images of CentOS Stream 9 can also be used for testing functionality). Repositories with packages are freely available for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. The source texts of the Red Hat rpm packages […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the open communication platform Asterisk 19 has been released, which is used for deploying software PBX, voice communication systems, VoIP gateways, organizing IVR systems (voice menus), voicemail, conference calls, and call centers. The project's source texts are available under the GPLv2 license. Asterisk 19 is categorized as a release with regular support, with updates provided over a period of two […]
The openSUSE project has released the first update of the installation images for the openSUSE Leap 15.3 QU1 (15.3 Quarterly Update 1 or 15.3-2). The proposed builds include all package updates accumulated over the four months since the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3, as well as fixes for issues in the installer. Systems installed previously and kept up to date received updates through the standard update installation system. In […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 94 has occurred. In addition, an update for the long-term support branch — 91.3.0 has been formed. The Firefox 95 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for December 7. Key innovations: A new service page 'about:unloads' has been implemented, allowing users to forcibly unload the most resource-intensive tabs from memory to reduce memory consumption without closing them (content […]
The release of Fedora Linux 35 has been announced. Products like Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, CoreOS, Fedora IoT Edition, and a set of 'spins' with Live builds of desktop environments such as KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, i3, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt are prepared for download. Builds have been created for x86_64, Power64, ARM64 (AArch64), and various devices with 32-bit ARM processors. The publication of Fedora Silverblue builds is delayed. […]
After six years of development, the first stable release of the static analysis tool PHPStan 1.0 has taken place, allowing developers to find errors in PHP code without executing it or using unit tests. The project code is written in PHP and is distributed under the MIT license. The analyzer provides 10 levels of checks, where each subsequent level expands on the capabilities of the previous one and offers stricter validations: […]
The first public release of the MangoDB project is available, offering a layer implementing the document-oriented database protocol MongoDB that operates on top of the PostgreSQL database. The project aims to enable migration of applications using MongoDB to PostgreSQL, providing a fully open software stack. The code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The program operates as a proxy, translating requests to MangoDB […]
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published a technique for invisibly injecting malicious code into reviewed source texts. The prepared attack method (CVE-2021-42574) is presented under the name Trojan Source and is based on generating text that looks different to the compiler/interpreter and the human reviewing the code. Examples of how this method can be applied have been demonstrated for various compilers and interpreters provided for the C, C++ (gcc and clang), C#, […]
The release of the lightweight Live distribution AntiX 21 has been announced, optimized for installation on outdated hardware. This release is based on the Debian 11 package base but comes without the system manager systemd and includes eudev instead of udev. For initialization, either runit or sysvinit can be used. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager. File management is supported by zzzFM […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 5.15 kernel. Among the most notable changes are a new NTFS driver with write support, the ksmbd module implementing an SMB server, the DAMON subsystem for monitoring memory access, locking primitives for real-time mode, fs-verity support in Btrfs, the process_mrelease system call for out-of-memory handling, and a remote attestation module […]
The Wayland developers are working on extending the protocol to allow applications to continue functioning during the crash and restart of the window compositor. This extension will address the long-standing issue of application termination when there is a failure in the window environment. The necessary changes to keep the socket active during restarts have already been prepared for the KWin window manager and are included in the KDE […]