An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 7.1 - took place. Since the release of 7.0, 42 bug reports have been closed and 408 changes have been made. Recall that starting with the 2.x branch, the Wine project switched to a version numbering scheme in which each stable release leads to an increase in the first digit of the version number (6.0.0, 7.0.0), and updates to […]
The release of the authoritative DNS server PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6, designed for organizing the return of DNS zones, was released. According to the project developers, PowerDNS Authoritative Server serves approximately 30% of the total number of domains in Europe (if we consider only domains with DNSSEC signatures, then 90%). The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. PowerDNS Authoritative Server provides the ability to store domain information […]
The release of the distributed DBMS rqlite 7.0 took place, which uses SQLite as a storage engine and allows you to organize the work of a cluster from storages synchronized with each other. One of the features of rqlite is the ease of installation, deployment and maintenance of a distributed fault-tolerant storage, somewhat similar to etcd and Consul, but using a relational data model instead of a key/value format. The project code is written in [...]
SUSE has announced the release of Rancher Desktop 1.0.0, an open-source application that provides a graphical interface for creating, running and managing containers based on the Kubernetes platform. Release 1.0.0 is noted as stable and marks a transition to a development process with a predictable release cycle and periodic publication of corrective updates. The program is written in JavaScript using the Electron platform and is distributed under […]
Collabora employees have implemented support for Valhall series GPUs (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) in the free Panfrost driver, which was previously focused on implementing support for Midgard and Bifrost chips. It is noted that the prepared changes with the initial implementation of the driver have been submitted for inclusion in the main Mesa composition and will be brought to users in one of the next significant releases. The implementation was prepared after […]
The release of re2c 3.0 took place, a free generator of lexical analyzers for the languages C, C++, Go and the Rust language added in this release. To support Rust, we had to use a different code generation model, where the state machine is represented as a loop and a state variable, rather than in the form of labels and transitions (since Rust does not have goto, unlike C, C++ and […]
The release of the distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 22.1 took place, which is a branch of the pfSense project, created with the aim of creating a completely open distribution kit that could have functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not controlled by one company, developed with the direct participation of the community and […]
A corrective release of Firefox 96.0.3 is available, as well as a new release of the long-term support branch of Firefox 91.5.1, which fixes a bug that, under certain circumstances, led to the transfer of unnecessary data to the telemetry collection server. The total share of unwanted data among all event records on telemetry servers is estimated at 0.0013% for the desktop version of Firefox, 0.0005% for the Android version of Firefox […]
After two years of development, the ISC consortium has released the first stable release of a major new branch of the BIND 9.18 DNS server. Support for branch 9.18 will be provided for three years until the 2nd quarter of 2025 as part of an extended support cycle. Support for the 9.11 branch will end in March, and support for the 9.16 branch in mid-2023. To develop functionality in the next stable version of BIND […]
Let's Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority that is controlled by the community and provides certificates free of charge to everyone, announced the early revocation of approximately two million TLS certificates, which is about 1% of all active certificates of this certification authority. The revocation of certificates was initiated due to the identification of non-compliance with specification requirements in the code used in Let's Encrypt with the implementation of the TLS-ALPN-01 extension (RFC 7301, Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation). […]
A default change has been made to the code base of the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library to enable operation based on the Wayland protocol in environments that provide simultaneous support for Wayland and X11. Previously, in Wayland environments with the XWayland component, output using X11 was enabled by default, and to use Wayland you had to run the application with a special configuration. The change will be part of the release [...]
The first release candidate for the Zotonic web framework and content management system has been released. The project is written in Erlang and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Zotonic is based on the concept of organizing content in the form of "resources" (also called "pages") and "links" between them ("article" - "related to" - "topic", "user" - "author" - "article"), Moreover, connections themselves are resources of the “connection” type […]
