With the release of version 0.2, the toolkit for creating graphical interfaces SixtyFPS was renamed to Slint. The reason for the renaming was user criticism of the name SixtyFPS, which led to confusion and ambiguity when sending queries to search engines, and also did not reflect the purpose of the project. The new name was chosen through a community discussion on GitHub, in which users suggested new names. […]
Valve has published drawings, models and design data for the Steam Deck gaming console case. The data is offered in STP, STL and DWG formats, and is distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0) license, which permits copying, distribution, use in your own projects and creation of derivative works, provided that you provide appropriate credit. attribution, license retention and non-commercial use only […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.2 - took place. Since the release of version 7.1, 23 bug reports have been closed and 643 changes have been made. The most important changes: A major cleanup of the MSVCRT library code was carried out and support for the 'long' type was provided (more than 200 changes out of 643). The Wine Mono engine with the implementation of the .NET platform has been updated to release 7.1.1. Improved […]
Nicotine+ 3.2.1, a free graphical client for the Soulseek P2P file-sharing network, has been released. Nicotine+ aims to be a user-friendly, free and open source alternative to the official Soulseek client, providing additional functionality while maintaining compatibility with the Soulseek protocol. The client code is written in Python using the GTK graphics library and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for GNU/Linux, […]
The first stable release of the EdgeDB DBMS is available, which is an add-on to PostgreSQL with the implementation of the relational graph data model and the EdgeQL query language, optimized for working with complex hierarchical data. The code is written in Python and Rust and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Client libraries are prepared for Python, Go, Rust and TypeScript/Javascript. Provides command line tools for […]
A new non-profit organization, OSFF (Open-Source Firmware Foundation), has been founded to promote open source firmware and enable collaboration and interaction among individuals and companies interested in the development and use of open firmware. The founders of the fund were 9elements Cyber Security and Mullvad VPN. Among the tasks set for the organization are mentioned conducting research, training, developing joint projects on a neutral platform, […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-0435) has been identified in the Linux kernel module that ensures the operation of the TIPC (Transparent Inter-process Communication) network protocol, potentially allowing code to be executed at the kernel level by sending a specially designed network packet. The problem only affects systems with the tipc.ko kernel module loaded and the TIPC stack configured, which is typically used in clusters and is not enabled by default in non-specialized distributions […]
Corrective updates have been generated for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 14.2, 13.6, 12.10, 11.15 and 10.20, which correct 55 errors identified over the past three months. Among other things, we have fixed problems that led, in rare circumstances, to index corruption when changing HOT (heap-only tuple) chains during a VACUUM operation or when performing a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY operation for […]
Mozilla is working with Facebook to implement IPA (Interoperable Private Attribution) technology, which allows advertising networks to receive and process statistics on the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, while respecting user privacy. To process statistics without disclosing data about specific users, cryptographic mechanisms of differential privacy and multi-party confidential computing (MPC, Multi-Party Computation) are used, allowing several independent participants to […]
A public discussion has begun of the draft resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation “On conducting an experiment to grant the right to use programs for electronic computers belonging to the Russian Federation under an open license and creating conditions for the distribution of free software.” The experiment, which is planned to be carried out from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024, will cover the following areas: Creation of a national repository, […]
The Document Foundation published download statistics for the week after the release of LibreOffice 7.3. It is reported that LibreOffice 7.3.0 has been downloaded 675 thousand times. By comparison, the last major release of LibreOffice 7.2 was downloaded 473 thousand times in its first week. Looking at the rival Apache OpenOffice project, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, published last October, was loaded […]
The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 22.02 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the ModemManager phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics in Plasma Mobile, and PulseAudio is used for sound processing. At the same time, a set of mobile applications Plasma Mobile Gear 22.02 was prepared, which is […]
