Valve has released the Proton 6.3-3 project, which is based on the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications developed for Windows in Linux, presented in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Windows-only gaming applications to run directly in the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation of DirectX […]
The Exim mail server version 4.94.2 has been released, addressing 21 vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-28007 to CVE-2020-28026, CVE-2021-27216), which were identified by Qualys and presented under the codename 21Nails. Ten of the issues can be exploited remotely (including for executing code with root privileges) through manipulation of SMTP commands when interacting with the server. All versions of Exim are affected, with their history tracked in Git […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package version 1.21 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the functionalities needed for building composite servers and user environments. Starting with version 1.21, the development stage of the protocols labeled 'unstable' has been replaced with 'staging' to smooth the stabilization process of protocols that have been tested in production environments. All protocols sequentially go through three phases […]
Evgeny Naydenov, the founder of the Ultimate Guitar community, announced the creation of Muse Group and the acquisition of the audio editor Audacity, which will now develop alongside other products of the new company. The development will continue in the form of a free project. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Muse Group will also include the free notation editor MuseScore, acquired in 2017, which continues to develop […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-29472) has been identified in the Composer dependency manager, allowing arbitrary commands to be executed in the system when processing a package with a specially formatted URL value that specifies the address for fetching source texts. The issue is present in the GitDriver, SvnDriver, and HgDriver components used with version control systems Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. The vulnerability has been fixed in Composer releases 1.10.22 and 2.0.13. […]
After six months of development, the release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2021.04 has taken place, replacing the binary distribution OpenSolaris, whose development was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which is enhancing the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and basic […]
The free cross-platform UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 6.9 has been released. This marks the 50th release of the project, which celebrates its 26th anniversary this year. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 following a conflict with the developers of NetBSD, resulting in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo […]
A release candidate for the Rocky Linux 8.3 distribution is available for testing, aimed at creating a new free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS after Red Hat decided to end support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, rather than in 2029 as initially planned. Rocky Linux builds are prepared for x86_64 architectures and […]
After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Postfix mail server — 3.6.0 — has occurred. At the same time, it was announced that support for the Postfix 3.2 branch, released in early 2017, will be discontinued. Postfix is one of the few projects that combines high security, reliability, and performance, achieved through a well-thought-out architecture and a sufficiently strict policy for code formatting and […]
The Free Software Foundation has introduced a new device that has received the 'Respect Your Freedom' certification, confirming that the device meets the requirements for ensuring user privacy and freedom, and grants the right to use a special logo in product-related materials, highlighting the provision of full control to the user over the device. The certificate has been awarded to the Wireless-N Mini Router v3 (TPE-R1300), distributed by ThinkPenguin. The TPE-R1300 is an improved version of […]
The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 21.04.27 distribution, built on FreeBSD, is now available, offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall written in Python). Bootable images have been created for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). In […]
The release of QEMU 6.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of a physical system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and by utilizing […]