After five months of development, the release of the cross-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces — GTK 4.4.0 — has been presented. GTK 4 is evolving under a new development process that aims to provide application developers with a stable and supported API for several years, allowing them to avoid having to rewrite applications every six months due to API changes in the next GTK branch. […]
The initiative to implement support for the Apple M1 chip in Linux, promoted by the Asahi Linux and Corellium projects, has reached a level where it is now possible to run the GNOME desktop in a Linux environment on a system equipped with the Apple M1 chip. Display output is organized via framebuffer, and OpenGL support is provided by the LLVMPipe software rasterizer. The next step will involve utilizing display […]
The release of the Bubblewrap 0.5.0 toolkit for organizing the work of isolated environments is now available, typically used to restrict individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. Traditional Linux container virtualization technologies based on [...] are used for isolation.
Valve has published the release of Proton 6.3-6, which is based on the Wine project and aimed at enabling the launch of Windows-targeted gaming applications in Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Windows-only gaming applications to be launched directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX [...]
After four months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.7 has been presented, an open implementation of a client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Key changes: An experimental data transmission mode using the SFTP protocol has been added to scp instead of the traditionally applied SCP/RCP protocol. SFTP uses more predictable naming handling methods and does not use glob pattern processing through the shell on [...]
The release of the nftables 1.0.0 packet filter has been published, unifying the packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges (aimed at replacing iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables). Changes necessary for the operation of nftables 1.0.0 are included in the Linux kernel 5.13. The significant version number change is not related to any drastic changes but is merely a continuation of the versioning sequence [...].
The release of BusyBox 1.34 has been announced, featuring a set of standard UNIX utilities packaged as a single executable file and optimized for minimal system resource consumption, with a total size of under 1 MB. The first release of the new 1.34 branch is labeled as unstable, with full stabilization expected in version 1.34.1, which is anticipated to arrive in about a month. The project's code is distributed under the […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 21.1.0 has occurred, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro is available in live builds with graphical environments KDE (3 GB), GNOME (2.9 GB), and Xfce (2.7 GB). When […]
The release of the spam filtering system Rspamd 3.0 has been presented, providing tools to evaluate messages based on various criteria, including rules, statistical methods, and blacklists, which together determine the final weight of the message used to decide on blocking. Rspamd supports virtually all features implemented in SpamAssassin and includes several enhancements that enable filtering emails approximately 10 […]
The Document Foundation has released the office suite LibreOffice 7.2. Ready installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. For this release, 70% of the changes were made by employees of partner companies like Collabora, Red Hat, and Allotropia, while 30% were contributed by independent enthusiasts. The LibreOffice 7.2 release is designated as 'Community' and will be supported by enthusiasts and not […]
After a year and a half of development, the MATE 1.26 desktop environment has been released, continuing the development of the GNOME 2.32 codebase while preserving the classic desktop paradigm. Installation packages for MATE 1.26 will soon be prepared for Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, ALT, and other distributions. In this new release: Continued porting of MATE applications for Wayland. […]
A new significant release of the free content management system Joomla 4.0 is now available. Notable features of Joomla include: flexible user management tools, an interface for managing media files, support for creating multilingual page versions, an advertising campaign management system, a user address book, voting, built-in search, link categorization and click tracking functions, a WYSIWYG editor, template system, menu support, news feed management, XML-RPC API […]