The release of the Redo Rescue 4.0.0 Live distribution kit, designed to create backup copies and restore the system in case of failure or data corruption, has been published. Distribution-generated state slices can be fully or selectively cloned to a new drive (with a new partition table created) or used to restore system integrity after malware activity, hardware failures, or accidental deletion of data. Distribution […]
The Geany 1.38 project release is available, developing a lightweight and compact application development environment. Among the goals of the project is the creation of a very fast code editing environment that requires a minimum number of build dependencies and is not tied to the features of specific user environments such as KDE or GNOME. Building Geany requires only the GTK library and its dependencies (Pango, Glib and […]
On the day of the twentieth anniversary of the project, the release of the free cross-platform interpreter of classic quests ScummVM 2.5.0 was published, replacing the executable files for games and allowing you to run many classic games on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. In total, it is possible to launch more than 250 quests and more than 1600 interactive text games, including games from LucasArts, […]
In the October ranking of the popularity of programming languages, published by TIOBE Software, the triumph of the programming language Python (11.27%) was noted, which moved from third to first place in a year, displacing C (11.16%) and Java (10.46%). The TIOBE Popularity Index builds its conclusions based on the analysis of search query statistics in systems such as Google, Google Blogs, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, MSN, […]
A new stable branch of the Flatpak 1.12 toolkit has been published, which provides a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, Alt Linux and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository […]
The first corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been generated, which includes package updates released in the two months since the release of the new branch, and fixed flaws in the installer. The release includes 75 stability updates and 35 security updates. Of the changes in Debian 11.1, we can note the update to the latest stable versions of the clamav […]
The first stable release of the OpenSilver project has been published, offering an open implementation of the Silverlight platform, which allows you to create interactive web applications using C#, XAML and .NET technologies. The project code is written in C# and distributed under the MIT license. Compiled Silverlight applications can run on any WebAssembly-enabled desktop and mobile browsers, but direct compilation is currently only possible on Windows […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.19 — has been released. Since the release of version 6.18, 22 bug reports have been closed and 520 changes have been made. The most important changes: IPHlpApi, NsiProxy, WineDbg and some other modules have been converted to PE (Portable Executable) format. The development of the backend for joysticks that support the HID (Human Interface Devices) protocol has been continued. Core related […]
The Brython 3.10 (Browser Python) project release is presented with an implementation of the Python 3 programming language for execution on the side of a web browser, allowing you to use Python instead of JavaScript to develop scripts for the Web. The project code is written in Python and distributed under the BSD license. By including the brython.js and brython_stdlib.js libraries, a web developer can use the Python language to define the […]
The Chromium developers summed up the first results of the RenderingNG project launched 8 years ago, aimed at ongoing work to increase the performance, reliability and extensibility of Chrome. For example, the optimizations added in the release of Chrome 94 compared to Chrome 93 allowed for an 8% reduction in page processing latency and a 0.5% increase in battery life. Considering the size […]
A new attack vector was found on the Apache http server, which remained unpatched in update 2.4.50 and allows access to files from areas outside the site's root directory. In addition, researchers have found a way that allows, in the presence of certain non-standard settings, not only to read system files, but also to remotely execute your code on the server. The problem appears only in releases 2.4.49 […]
A new version of the static code analyzer cppcheck 2.6 has been released, which allows you to identify various classes of errors in code in the C and C++ languages, including when using non-standard syntax, typical for embedded systems. A collection of plugins is provided through which cppcheck is integrated with various development, continuous integration and testing systems, and also provides such features as compliance checking […]
