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FFmpeg 5.0 multimedia package release

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After ten months of development, the FFmpeg 5.0 multimedia package is available, which includes a set of applications and a collection of libraries for operations on various multimedia formats (recording, converting and decoding audio and video formats). The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, FFmpeg development is carried out adjacent to the MPlayer project. The significant change in version number is explained by significant changes in the API and the transition to a new […]

Essence is an original operating system with its own kernel and graphical shell

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The new Essence operating system, supplied with its own kernel and graphical user interface, is available for initial testing. The project has been developed by one enthusiast since 2017, created from scratch and notable for its original approach to building a desktop and graphics stack. The most notable feature is the ability to split windows into tabs, allowing you to work with several […]

Release of the Mumble 1.4 voice communication platform

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After more than two years of development, the release of the Mumble 1.4 platform has been presented, focused on creating voice chats that provide low latency and high quality voice transmission. A key area of ​​application for Mumble is organizing communication between players while playing computer games. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. Builds are prepared for Linux, Windows and macOS. Project […]

Fourth edition of patches for the Linux kernel with support for the Rust language

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Miguel Ojeda, author of the Rust-for-Linux project, proposed a fourth version of components for developing device drivers in the Rust language for consideration by Linux kernel developers. Rust support is considered experimental, but has already been agreed upon for inclusion in the linux-next branch and is mature enough to begin work on creating abstraction layers over kernel subsystems, as well as writing drivers and […]

Testing the KDE Plasma 5.24 Desktop

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A beta version of the Plasma 5.24 custom shell is available for testing. You can test the new release through a Live build from the openSUSE project and builds from the KDE Neon Testing edition project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. The release is expected on February 8. Key improvements: Modernized Breeze theme. When displaying catalogs, the highlight color of active elements (accent) is now taken into account. Implemented […]

Release of GhostBSD 22.01.12

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The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 22.01.12/13/86, built on the basis of FreeBSD 64-STABLE and offering the MATE user environment, has been published. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x2.58_XNUMX architecture (XNUMX GB). In the new version from […]

SystemRescue 9.0.0 distribution release

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The release of SystemRescue 9.0.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. Xfce is used as the graphical environment. The iso image size is 771 MB (amd64, i686). The changes in the new version include the translation of the system initialization script from Bash to Python, as well as the implementation of initial support for setting system parameters and autorun […]

Record companies sued for hosting Youtube-dl project

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Record companies Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music filed a lawsuit in Germany against the provider Uberspace, which provides hosting for the official website of the youtube-dl project. In response to a previously sent out-of-court request to block youtube-dl, Uberspace did not agree to disable the site and expressed disagreement with the claims being made. The plaintiffs insist that youtube-dl is […]

Breach of backwards compatibility in popular NPM package causes crashes in various projects

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The NPM repository is experiencing another massive outage of projects due to problems in the new version of one of the popular dependencies. The source of the problems was the new release of the mini-css-extract-plugin 2.5.0 package, designed to extract CSS into separate files. The package has more than 10 million weekly downloads and is used as a direct dependency on more than 7 thousand projects. IN […]

In Chromium and browsers based on it, the removal of search engines is limited

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Google has removed the ability to remove default search engines from the Chromium codebase. In the configurator, in the “Search Engine Management” section (chrome://settings/searchEngines), it is no longer possible to delete elements from the list of default search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo). The change took effect with the release of Chromium 97 and also affected all browsers based on it, including new releases of Microsoft […]

Vulnerability in cryptsetup allowing encryption to be disabled on LUKS2 partitions

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A vulnerability (CVE-2021-4122) has been identified in the Cryptsetup package, used to encrypt disk partitions in Linux, which allows encryption to be disabled on partitions in the LUKS2 (Linux Unified Key Setup) format by modifying metadata. To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must have physical access to the encrypted media, i.e. The method makes sense mainly for attacking encrypted external storage devices such as Flash drives, […]

Release of the Qbs 1.21 build tool and start testing Qt 6.3

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The Qbs 1.21 build tools release has been announced. This is the eighth release since the Qt Company left the development of the project, prepared by the community interested in continuing the development of Qbs. To build Qbs, Qt is required among the dependencies, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the assembly of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of QML to define project build scripts, allowing […]

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