A corrective release of Firefox 141.0.2 is available, addressing several issues: Crashes upon startup on some Linux systems with older versions of proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Inability to launch on some systems with the GTK library built without Wayland support. A regression causing incompatibilities due to the ability to drag canvas objects leading to crashes when inspecting pages with elements […]
The release of the syncspirit 0.4.1 program, which allows for automatic continuous file synchronization across multiple devices, is now available. The project addresses tasks similar to the proprietary Resilio Sync system (formerly BitTorrent Sync). Syncspirit is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; the domestic embedded DBMS libmdbx is used for database storage; for event processing […]
The release candidate for the openSUSE Leap 16 distribution has been presented, built on the technologies of the next major branch of the commercial distribution SLES 16, transitioning to the new SLFO platform (SUSE Linux Framework One), previously known as ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). openSUSE Leap 16 will retain the features of a classic distribution using traditional packages, while for those who need an atomically updatable system with a base […]
The Proton Authenticator app, introduced last week for authentication using one-time passwords, has revealed a privacy issue — the detailed debug log was not disabled in the mobile iOS builds, where the original secret keys for generating one-time passwords were stored in plaintext. Such logging undermined the encryption of the keys and restricted access to them […]
The third candidate for the installer releases of the next significant release of Debian 13 "Trixie" has been published. A week ago, the Debian 13 branch was frozen before the release, during which the transfer of any package changes to the Testing branch was stopped (exceptions may be made only upon special request and after manual review by the release preparation team). The release is scheduled for […]
In the package StarDict available in the Debian Testing repository (the upcoming release of Debian 13), a privacy issue has been identified — by default, the application sends selected text (x11 PRIMARY selection), which is automatically placed in the clipboard, to external servers. It is sufficient to highlight a snippet of text in any application, and it is immediately sent unencrypted […]
A stable release of the Squid 7.1 proxy server has been presented, ready for use in production systems (the 7.0.x releases were in beta status). After granting the 7.x branch the stable status, it will now only receive fixes for vulnerabilities and stability issues, with minor optimizations allowed. Development of new features will take place in a new experimental branch 8.0. Users of the previous stable branch 6.x […]
Aaron Ballman, the lead maintainer of the Clang compiler and a member of the WG21 (C++) and WG14 (C) standards development teams, has begun discussion about adding a security enhancement mode to the Clang compiler. The new mode will allow a set of security strengthening options to be activated at once, similar to the flag "-fhardened" added in GCC 14, which includes options like "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero -fPIE -pie […]
The fourth release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment, written from scratch using the Qt framework, has been published. The project attempts to combine some innovative ideas that have not been seen before in user environments with traditional elements, such as panels, menus, and icon placement on the desktop. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPL license. In the new version, most […]
One of the participants in the UIUCTF 2025 competition detailed how he managed to execute a task that required running his code on the server, having only the ability to modify the content of the comment text in the code. Participants could send a network request to a Python script that created a new Python script with a random name, added the data received from the user into the comment text, while removing the characters "\n" and […]
The release of the FEX 2508 project has been published, which develops an emulator for running games and applications built for x86 and x86-64 architectures in a Linux environment on systems with ARM64 (AArch64) processors. The FEX emulator is used by the Asahi project to run Steam catalog games compiled for the x86_64 architecture on systems with Apple Silicon ARM chips. The project's code is written in C++ with assembly […]
The stable release of the interface for simplifying network configuration - NetworkManager 1.54.0 - has been published. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are being developed within their own development cycles. The main innovations in NetworkManager 1.54 include: the ability to attach individual IPv4 packet forwarding settings to devices using the "ipv4.forwarding" option. The "prefix-delegation" setting has been added to allow using the "subnet-id" property to select the subnet […]