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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network presented the release of the Arti 0.0.3 project, which develops a Tor client written in the Rust language. The project has the status of an experimental development, it lags behind the functionality of the main Tor client in C and is not yet ready to fully replace it. Release 0.1.0 is expected in March, which is positioned as the first beta release of the project, and in the fall release 1.0 with API stabilization, […]
A stable release of the interface is available to simplify setting up network parameters - NetworkManager 1.34.0. Plugins to support VPN, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN and OpenSWAN are being developed through their own development cycles. The main innovations of NetworkManager 1.34: A new nm-priv-helper service has been implemented, designed to organize the execution of operations that require elevated privileges. Currently, the use of this service is limited, but in the future it is planned to […]
Hot on its heels, a corrective release of Firefox 96.0.1 has been created, which fixes a bug in the code for parsing the “Content-Length” header that appeared in Firefox 96, which appears when using HTTP/3. The error was that the search for the string “Content-Length:” was carried out in a case-sensitive manner, which is why spellings such as “content-length:” were not taken into account. The new version also eliminates the […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-4155) has been identified in the XFS file system code that allows a local unprivileged user to read unused block data directly from a block device. All major versions of the Linux kernel older than 5.16 that contain the XFS driver are affected by this issue. The fix was included in version 5.16, as well as in kernel updates 5.15.14, 5.10.91, 5.4.171, 4.19.225, etc. The status of generating updates that fix the problem [...]
Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the US Naval Research Laboratory presented the results of the development of a Tor network simulator, comparable in the number of nodes and users to the main Tor network and allowing for experiments close to real conditions. The tools and network modeling methodology prepared during the experiment made it possible to simulate the operation of a network of 4 […]
