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Canonical and Vodafone develop cloud smartphone technology using Anbox Cloud

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Canonical presented a project to create a cloud smartphone, developed jointly with the cellular operator Vodafone. The project is based on the use of the Anbox Cloud cloud service, which allows you to run applications and play games created for the Android platform without being tied to a specific system. Applications run in isolated containers on external servers using the open Anbox environment. The execution result is translated into [...]

Release of decentralized video broadcasting platform PeerTube 4.1

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The release of a decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting PeerTube 4.1 took place. PeerTube offers a vendor-neutral alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communications and linking visitors' browsers together. The project's developments are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Key innovations: Improved performance of the built-in video player on mobile devices. When you touch the center, […]

Coreboot 4.16 release

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The release of the CoreBoot 4.16 project has been published, within the framework of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. 170 developers took part in the creation of the new version, who prepared 1770 changes. Key innovations: Added support for 33 motherboards, 22 of which are used on devices with Chrome OS or on Google servers. Among not […]

Release of MPlayer 1.5 media player

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Three years after the last release, the MPlayer 1.5 multimedia player was released, which ensures compatibility with the latest version of the FFmpeg 5.0 multimedia package. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. The changes in the new version boil down to the integration of improvements added over the past three years to FFmpeg (the codebase is synchronized with the FFmpeg master branch). A copy of the new FFmpeg is included in […]

Release of SQLite 3.38 and sqlite-utils 3.24

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The release of SQLite 3.38, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. may be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Main changes: Added support for operators -> […]

Vulnerability in GitLab allowing access to Runner tokens

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Corrective updates to the collaborative development platform GitLab 14.8.2, 14.7.4 and 14.6.5 eliminate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-0735) that allows an unauthorized user to extract registration tokens in the GitLab Runner, which is used to call handlers when building project code in a continuous integration system. No details are provided yet, only that the problem is caused by information leakage when using Quick commands […]

GNUnet P2P Platform Release 0.16.0

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The release of the GNUnet 0.16 framework, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks, has been presented. Networks created using GNUnet do not have a single point of failure and are able to guarantee the inviolability of users' private information, including eliminating possible abuse by intelligence services and administrators with access to network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth and WLAN, […]

Release of Mold 1.1 builder developed by LLVM lld

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A release of the Mold linker has been published, which can be used as a faster, transparent replacement for the GNU linker on Linux systems. The project is developed by the author of the LLVM lld linker. A key feature of Mold is the very high speed of linking object files, noticeably faster than the GNU gold and LLVM lld linkers (linking in Mold is only half the speed of simply copying files […]

Release of Bubblewrap 0.6, layers for creating sandboxed environments

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A release of the Bubblewrap 0.6 Sandboxing Toolkit is now available, typically used to restrict individual applications to unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer to isolate applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. For isolation, traditional Linux container virtualization technologies are used, […]

Wine 7.3 release

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.3 - took place. Since the release of version 7.2, 15 bug reports have been closed and 650 changes have been made. The most important changes: Continued support for 'long' type code (more than 230 changes). Correct support for Windows API sets has been implemented. The translation of the USER32 and WineALSA libraries to use the PE executable file format has continued […]

Neptune OS project develops Windows compatibility layer based on seL4 microkernel

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The first experimental release of the Neptune OS project has been published, developing an add-on to the seL4 microkernel with the implementation of Windows NT kernel components, aimed at providing support for running Windows applications. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project is implemented by "NT Executive", one of the Windows NT kernel layers (NTOSKRNL.EXE), responsible for providing the NT Native system call API and interface for driver operation. In Neptune […]

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