After 11 months of development, the open source video player MPV 0.34 was released, which in 2013 forked from the code base of the MPlayer2 project. MPV focuses on developing new features and ensuring that new features are continually ported from the MPlayer repositories, without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is licensed under LGPLv2.1+, some parts remain under GPLv2, but the process […]
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published a technique for silently inserting malicious code into peer-reviewed source code. The prepared attack method (CVE-2021-42574) is presented under the name Trojan Source and is based on the formation of text that looks different for the compiler/interpreter and the person viewing the code. Examples of the method are demonstrated for various compilers and interpreters supplied for the languages C, C++ (gcc and clang), C#, […]
The release of the lightweight Live distribution AntiX 21, optimized for installation on outdated equipment, has been published. The release is based on the Debian 11 package base, but ships without the systemd system manager and with eudev instead of udev. Runit or sysvinit can be used for initialization. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager. zzzFM is available for working with files […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.15. Notable changes include: new NTFS driver with write support, ksmbd module with SMB server implementation, DAMON subsystem for memory access monitoring, real-time locking primitives, fs-verity support in Btrfs, process_mrelease system call for starvation response systems memory, remote certification module […]
The Blender project has presented a new short animated film “Sprite Fright”, dedicated to the Halloween holiday and stylized as an 80s horror comedy film. The project was led by Matthew Luhn, known for his work at Pixar. The film was created using only open source tools for modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking and video editing. Project […]
Wayland developers are working on extending the protocol to allow applications to continue running when the composite server (Window Compositor) crashes and is restarted. The extension will solve the long-standing problem with applications terminating in the event of a failure in the windowed environment. The necessary changes to keep the socket active during a restart are already prepared for the KWin window manager and included with KDE […]
The Vaultwarden 1.23.0 project (formerly bitwarden_rs) has been released, developing an alternative server part for the Bitwarden password manager, compatible at the API level and capable of working with official Bitwarden clients. The goal of the project is to provide a cross-platform implementation that allows you to run Bitwarden servers at your own capacity, but unlike the official Bitwarden server, consuming significantly less resources. The Vaultwarden project code is written in […]
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Apache OpenMeetings 6.2, a web conferencing server that enables audio and video conferencing via the Web, as well as collaboration and messaging between participants. Both webinars with one speaker and conferences with an arbitrary number of participants simultaneously interacting with each other are supported. The project code is written in Java and distributed under […]
The release of the Trinity R14.0.11 desktop environment has been published, continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x and Qt 3 codebase. Binary packages will soon be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and other distributions. Among the features of Trinity are its own tools for managing screen parameters, a udev-based layer for working with equipment, a new interface for […]
A release of the free sound editor Audacity 3.1 has been published, providing tools for editing sound files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and WAV), recording and digitizing sound, changing sound file parameters, overlaying tracks and applying effects (for example, noise reduction, changing tempo and tone ). The Audacity code is licensed under the GPL, with binary builds available for Linux, Windows and macOS. Audacity 3.1 […]
The release of the Tizen Studio 4.5 development environment is available, which replaced the Tizen SDK and provides a set of tools for creating, building, debugging and profiling mobile applications using the Web API and Tizen Native API. The environment is based on the latest release of the Eclipse platform, has a modular architecture and, at the installation stage or through a special package manager, allows […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-39341) has been identified in the OptinMonster WordPress add-on, which has more than a million active installations and is used to display pop-up notifications and offers, allowing you to place your JavaScript code on a site using the specified add-on. The vulnerability was fixed in release 2.6.5. To block access through captured keys after installing the update, OptinMonster developers canceled all previously created API access keys and added […]
