Three and a half years after the last significant release, the X.Org Server 21.1 has been released. Starting with this version, a new release numbering scheme has been introduced, allowing users to immediately see how long ago a particular version was published. Similar to the Mesa project, the first number in the version indicates the year, while the second number indicates the ordinal number of the significant release for […]
Engineers at Intel proposed a new protocol called HTTPA (HTTPS Attestable), which enhances HTTPS with additional security guarantees for the computations made. HTTPA ensures the integrity of the user's request processing on the server and verifies that the web service is trustworthy and that the code running in a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) on the server has not been altered due to hacking or administrator intervention. HTTPS protects […]
The utility crabz has been released, implementing multi-threaded compression and decompression of data, similar to the utility pigz. Both utilities are multi-threaded versions of the gzip program, optimized for multi-core systems. Crabz is distinguished by its implementation in the Rust programming language, as opposed to pigz, which is written in C (and partially in C++), and shows significant […]
Israeli security researcher Ido Hoorvitch from Tel Aviv published results of an experiment studying the reliability of passwords used to secure access to wireless networks. During the research, using captured frames with PMKID identifiers, passwords for 3,663 out of 5,000 (73%) studied wireless networks in Tel Aviv were successfully guessed. It was concluded that most wireless network owners […]
Raspberry Pi developers have announced the certification of the v3dv graphics driver by the Khronos organization, which has successfully passed over 100,000 tests from the CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and is recognized as fully compliant with the Vulkan 1.1 specification. The driver is certified with the Broadcom BCM2711 chip used in the Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and Compute Module 4 boards. The verification was […]
As part of the Kerla project, the development of an operating system kernel written in Rust is underway. The new kernel is initially aimed at ensuring ABI-level compatibility with the Linux kernel, allowing unmodified executable files compiled for Linux to run in a Kerla-based environment. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses. The project is being developed by Japanese developer Seiya Nuta (Seiya […]
The release of ncspot 0.9 has taken place, a lightweight console client for the music service Spotify, written in the Rust programming language and supported by more than fifty developers. The interface supports themes and is designed using the ncurses library. By default, PulseAudio is used as the sound server (to use an alternative sound backend, compilation flags must be specified). The source code is distributed under the BSD license. […]
The release of OpenLDAP package 2.6.0 has been announced, offering a cross-platform implementation of the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for organizing directory services and accessing them. The project develops a modular server component that supports various storage and access backends, proxy balancer, client utilities, and libraries. The code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like OpenLDAP Public License. […]
Mozilla has announced the removal from the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) directory of two add-ons — Bypass and Bypass XM, which had 455 thousand active installations and were positioned as add-ons to provide access to subscription-based content (paywall bypass). The add-ons used an API Proxy to modify traffic, allowing control over web requests made by the browser. In addition to the stated functions, the mentioned add-ons […]
After eight years of development, the release of the Muen 1.0 project has emerged, which develops a separation kernel, the absence of errors in its source code has been confirmed using mathematical methods of formal verification of reliability. The kernel is available for the x86_64 architecture and can be used in critical systems that require a high level of reliability and guarantees against failures. The project's source code is written in […]
The developers of AlmaLinux, a distribution created by CloudLinux in response to the premature discontinuation of support for CentOS 8, have introduced the ELevate toolkit to simplify the migration of existing CentOS 7.x installations to distributions built on the RHEL 8 package base while preserving applications, data, and settings. Currently, the project supports migration to AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream, and Oracle Linux. The migration process […]
The release of the qutebrowser 2.4 web browser has been published, featuring a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from content viewing and a navigation system styled after the Vim text editor, fully built on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The use of Python does not affect performance, as rendering and content parsing […]