Testing has begun on the first release candidate Wine 7.0, an open implementation of WinAPI. The code base has been put into a freeze phase ahead of release, which is expected in mid-January. Since the release of Wine 6.23, 32 bug reports have been closed and 211 changes have been made. The most important changes: A new implementation of the joystick driver for WinMM (Windows Multimedia API) has been proposed. All Unix Wine libraries […]
The European Commission has approved new rules regarding open source software, according to which software solutions developed for the European Commission that have potential benefits for residents, companies and government agencies will be available to everyone under open licenses. The rules also make it easier to open-source existing software products owned by the European Commission and reduce the associated […]
The release of the Kali Linux 2021.4 distribution kit has been released, designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information and identifying the consequences of attacks by intruders. All original developments created within the distribution kit are distributed under the GPL license and are available through the public Git repository. Several versions of iso images have been prepared for download, sizes 466 MB, 3.1 GB and 3.7 GB. […]
The release of the Cambalache 0.8.0 project has been published, developing a tool for rapid development of interfaces for GTK 3 and GTK 4, using the MVC paradigm and the philosophy of the paramount importance of the data model. Unlike Glade, Cambalache provides support for maintaining multiple user interfaces in one project. In terms of functionality, the release of Cambalache 0.8.0 is noted as being close to parity with Glade. The code is written […]
A stable release of the protocol, interprocess communication mechanism and Wayland 1.20 libraries took place. The 1.20 branch is backwards compatible at the API and ABI level with the 1.x releases and contains mostly bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The Weston Composite Server, which provides code and working examples for using Wayland in desktop and embedded environments, is being developed as a separate development cycle. […]
In Apache Log4j, a popular framework for organizing logging in Java applications, a critical vulnerability has been identified that allows arbitrary code to be executed when a specially formatted value in the “{jndi:URL}” format is written to the log. The attack can be carried out on Java applications that log values received from external sources, for example, when displaying problematic values in error messages. It is noted that the problem is susceptible [...]
The NPM repository identified 17 malicious packages that were distributed using type squatting, i.e. with the assignment of names similar to the names of popular libraries with the expectation that the user will make a typo when typing the name or will not notice the differences when selecting a module from the list. The packages discord-selfbot-v14, discord-lofy, discordsystem and discord-vilao used a modified version of the legitimate discord.js library, which provides functions for […]
The MariaDB company, which, together with the non-profit organization of the same name, oversees the development of the MariaDB database server, announced a significant change in the schedule for creating MariaDB Community Server builds and its support scheme. Until now, MariaDB has created one significant branch once a year and maintained it for about 5 years. Under the new scheme, significant releases containing functional changes […]
Microsoft has introduced Microsoft-Performance-Tools, an open source package for analyzing performance and diagnosing performance issues on Linux and Android platforms. For work, a set of command line utilities is offered for analyzing the performance of the entire system and profiling individual applications. The code is written in C# using the .NET Core platform and is distributed under the MIT license. As a source for […]
The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 21.12 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the ModemManager phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics in Plasma Mobile, and PulseAudio is used for sound processing. At the same time, a set of mobile applications Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12 was prepared, which is […]
Mozilla has published its financial report for 2020. In 2020, Mozilla's revenues almost halved to $496.86 million, roughly the same as in 2018. For comparison, Mozilla earned $2019 million in 828, $2018 million in 450, $2017 million in 562, […]
A release of the open billing system ABillS 0.92 is available, the components of which are supplied under the GPLv2 license. Main innovations: In the Paysys module, most payment modules have been redesigned and tests have been added. Callcenter redesigned. Added selection of objects on the map for mass changes to CRM/Maps2. The Extfin module has been redesigned and periodic charges to subscribers have been added. Implemented support for selective session detail for clients (s_detail). Added ISG plugin […]
