The release of the Exim 4.95 mail server has taken place, incorporating accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to a September automated survey of over a million mail servers, Exim holds a 58% share (up from 57.59% a year ago), Postfix is used on 34.92% (up from 34.70%), Sendmail on 3.52% (down from 3.75%), MailEnable on 2% (down from 2.07%), MDaemon on 0.57% (down from 0.73%), and Microsoft Exchange on 0.32% […]
Beta testing has begun for the Fedora Linux 35 distribution. The beta release marks the transition to the final testing phase, during which only critical bug fixes are allowed. The release is scheduled for October 26. This version encompasses Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Live images provided as spins with desktop environments including KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt. The builds have been created […]
Brendan Gregg, one of the developers of DTrace, who is currently developing performance analysis tools based on BPF in the Linux kernel, summarized the experience gained from addressing performance issues that Netflix encountered when migrating its Cassandra database from CentOS to Ubuntu in environments running on Amazon EC2 based on Xen. After migration, the load […]
The ALT 9.2 Workstation K release is now available. This version traditionally features the inclusion of the KDE graphical environment and NVIDIA binary drivers. The distribution also provides a graphical interface for system configuration, including authentication (via Active Directory and LDAP/Kerberos), time installation and synchronization, user and group management, viewing system logs, and adding printers. Builds are prepared for the x86_64 architecture […]
The PaSh project, which develops tools for the parallel execution of shell scripts, has announced its transition under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, which will provide the infrastructure and services necessary for ongoing development. The project code is distributed under the MIT license and includes components in Python, Shell, C, and OCaml. PaSh includes a JIT compiler, runtime, and annotation library: the runtime provides a set of primitives to support parallel […]
On September 30 at 17:01 Moscow time, the root certificate of IdenTrust (DST Root CA X3) will expire, which was used for cross-signing the root certificate of the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority (ISRG Root X1), controlled by the community and providing free certificates to all who wish. The cross-signature provided trust in Let’s Encrypt certificates across a wide range of devices, operating systems, and browsers […]
After three and a half years of development, the first stable release of the GNU Wget2 project has been presented, which develops a completely reworked version of the program for automating recursive content downloads, GNU Wget. GNU Wget2 has been designed and rewritten from scratch, notably moving the core functionality of the web client into the libwget library, which can be independently used in applications. The utility is distributed under the GPLv3+ license, while the library is under […]
The release of OpenSSH 8.8 has been published, an open implementation of the client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The release is notable for disabling the use of RSA key-based digital signatures with SHA-1 hashing ("ssh-rsa") by default. The discontinuation of support for "ssh-rsa" signatures is due to the increasing effectiveness of collision attacks with a predefined prefix (the cost of finding a collision is estimated at around $50,000). For […]
At the recent Linux Plumbers 2021 conference, Google discussed the progress of its initiative to transition the Android platform to use the standard Linux kernel instead of a custom version that includes Android-specific changes. The most significant update in development was the decision to adopt an "Upstream First" model after 2023, which involves developing all new kernel features needed for […]
The new release of the JavaScript engine elk 2.0.9 is available, aimed at use in resource-constrained systems such as microcontrollers, including ESP32 and Arduino Nano boards with 2 KB of RAM and 30 KB of Flash. The virtual machine requires only 100 bytes of memory and 20 KB of storage space to operate. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.18 has been released. Since the release of version 6.17, 19 bug reports have been closed and 485 changes have been made. The most important updates include: Shell32 and WineBus libraries have been converted to the PE (Portable Executable) format. Unicode data has been updated to version 14. The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.4.0. Additional work has been carried out to support […]
The stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.0 set of basic system utilities is available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, ls, etc. The significant version change is due to modifications in the behavior of some utilities. Key changes include: In the cp and install utilities, the default behavior during copying has been […]