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Updates for Java SE, MySQL, VirtualBox and other Oracle products with vulnerabilities fixed

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Oracle has published a scheduled release of updates to its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at eliminating critical problems and vulnerabilities. The January update fixed a total of 497 vulnerabilities. Some problems: 17 security problems in Java SE. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication and affect environments that allow the execution of untrustworthy code. Problems have […]

VirtualBox 6.1.32 release

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Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 6.1.32 virtualization system, which contains 18 fixes. Major changes: In additions for host environments with Linux, problems with access to certain classes of USB devices have been resolved. Two local vulnerabilities have been fixed: CVE-2022-21394 (severity level 6.5 out of 10) and CVE-2022-21295 (severity level 3.8). The second vulnerability only appears on the Windows platform. Details about the character […]

Igor Sysoev left the F5 Network companies and left the NGINX project

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Igor Sysoev, the creator of the high-performance HTTP server NGINX, left the F5 Network company, where, after the sale of NGINX Inc, he was among the technical leaders of the NGINX project. It is noted that care is due to the desire to spend more time with the family and engage in personal projects. At F5, Igor held the position of chief architect. The leadership of NGINX development will now be concentrated in the hands of Maxim […]

Release of ONLYOFFICE Docs 7.0 office suite

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The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 7.0 has been published with the server implementation for ONLYOFFICE online editors and collaboration. Editors can be used to work with text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The project code is distributed under the free license AGPLv3. At the same time, ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 7.0 was released, built on a single code base with online editors. Desktop editors are designed as desktop applications, […]

Release of the Deepin 20.4 distribution kit, developing its own graphical environment

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The Deepin 20.4 distribution was released, based on the Debian 10 package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including the DMusic music player, DMovie video player, DTalk messaging system, installer and installation center for Deepin programs Software Center. The project was founded by a group of developers from China, but transformed into an international project. […]

337 New Packages Included in Linux Patent Protection Program

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The Open Invention Network (OIN), which aims to protect the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, announced an expansion of the list of packages that are covered by a non-patent agreement and the possibility of free use of certain patented technologies. The list of distribution components that fall under the definition of a Linux System (“Linux System”), which is covered by the agreement between the OIN participants, has been expanded to […]

Release of GNU Radio 3.10.0

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After a year of development, a new significant release of the free digital signal processing platform GNU Radio 3.10 has been formed. The platform includes a set of programs and libraries that allow you to create arbitrary radio systems, modulation schemes and the form of received and sent signals in which are specified in software, and the simplest hardware devices are used to capture and generate signals. The project is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Most of the code […]

hostapd and wpa_supplicant 2.10 release

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After a year and a half of development, the release of hostapd/wpa_supplicant 2.10 has been prepared, a set for supporting the wireless protocols IEEE 802.1X, WPA, WPA2, WPA3 and EAP, consisting of the wpa_supplicant application to connect to a wireless network as a client and the hostapd background process to provide operation of the access point and an authentication server, including components such as WPA Authenticator, RADIUS authentication client/server, […]

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 […]

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