After four months of development, the release of a free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs - Mesa 21.3.0 - was published. The first release of the Mesa 21.3.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 21.3.1 will be released. Mesa 21.3 includes full support for OpenGL 4.6 for the 965, iris (Intel), radeonsi (AMD), zink and llvmpipe drivers. OpenGL 4.5 support […]
Patrick Volkerding announced the start of testing the second release candidate for the Slackware 15.0 distribution. Patrick proposes to consider the proposed release as being at a deeper stage of freezing and free from errors when attempting to rebuild from source codes. An installation image of 3.3 GB (x86_64) in size has been prepared for download, as well as a shortened assembly for launching in Live mode. By […]
After 5 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.2 user environment has been formed, within which the community of developers of the Linux Mint distribution is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing an environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell . Cinnamon is based on the GNOME components, but those […]
Oracle has published the release of the Oracle Linux 8.5 distribution, created based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 package base. An 8.6 GB installation iso image prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures is distributed for downloading without restrictions. Oracle Linux has unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary package updates that fix errors (errata) and […]
Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.1, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix, has been released hypervisor. The size of the installation iso-image is 1 GB. Proxmox VE provides the means to deploy a turnkey virtual […]
The MBK Laboratory company is developing the Tegu mail server, which combines the functions of an SMTP and IMAP server. To simplify the management of settings, users, storage and queues, a web interface is provided. The server is written in Go and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready-made binary assemblies and extended versions (authentication via LDAP/Active Directory, XMPP messenger, CalDav, CardDav, centralized storage in PostgresSQL, failover clusters, a set of web clients) are supplied […]
A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside has published a new variant of the SAD DNS attack (CVE-2021-20322) that works despite protections added last year to block the CVE-2020-25705 vulnerability. The new method is generally similar to last year's vulnerability and differs only in the use of a different type of ICMP packets to check active UDP ports. The proposed attack allows for the substitution of fictitious data into the DNS server cache, which […]
GitHub has published a report analyzing statistics for 2021. Main trends: In 2021, 61 million new repositories were created (in 2020 - 60 million, in 2019 - 44 million) and more than 170 million pull requests were sent. The total number of repositories reached 254 million. The GitHub audience increased by 15 million users and reached 73 […]
The 58th edition of the ranking of the 500 most high-performance computers in the world has been published. In the new release, the top ten has not changed, but 4 new Russian clusters are included in the ranking. 19th, 36th and 40th places in the ranking were taken by Russian clusters Chervonenkis, Galushkin and Lyapunov, created by Yandex to solve machine learning problems and providing performance of 21.5, 16 and 12.8 petaflops, respectively. […]
The developers of the Vosk library have published new models for Russian speech recognition: server vosk-model-ru-0.22 and mobile Vosk-model-small-ru-0.22. The models use new speech data, as well as a new neural network architecture, which has increased recognition accuracy by 10-20%. The code and data are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Important changes: New data collected in voice speakers significantly improves the recognition of speech commands spoken […]
The release of the distribution kit CentOS 2111 is presented, which has absorbed the changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5. The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL 8.5. CentOS 2111 builds are prepared (8 GB DVD and 600 MB netboot) for x86_64, Aarch64 (ARM64), and ppc64le architectures. The SRPMS packages from which the binaries are built and debuginfo are available through vault.centos.org. In addition to […]
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Qualcomm have published a new RowHammer attack method that can alter the contents of individual bits of dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The attack was codenamed Blacksmith and identified as CVE-2021-42114. Many DDR4 chips equipped with protection against previously known RowHammer class methods are susceptible to the problem. Tools for testing your systems […]
