A release of the nginx main branch 1.19.7 has been formed, which continues to develop new features (the parallel stable branch 1.18 only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes: When the worker process runs out of free connections, nginx now closes not only keepalive connections but also connections in a lingering close state. The code for handling […]
A corrective release of the OpenSSL cryptographic library 1.1.1j is now available, addressing two vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-23841 — a null pointer dereference in the X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() function, which can lead to the crash of applications invoking this function for processing X509 certificates with an incorrect value in the issuer field. CVE-2021-23840 — an integer overflow in the EVP_CipherUpdate, EVP_EncryptUpdate, and EVP_DecryptUpdate functions, which may result in the return value […]
The release of the Q4OS 3.14 distribution has occurred, based on the Debian package base and provided with KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktops. The distribution is positioned as resource-friendly and offers a classic desktop layout. It includes several proprietary applications, including 'Desktop profiler' for quickly installing themed software sets, 'Setup utility' for installing third-party applications, […]
Oracle has released an update for the Solaris 11.4 operating system SRU 30 (Support Repository Update), which offers a series of additional fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To apply the proposed fixes in the update, simply execute the 'pkg update' command. In the new release: Support for the UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention) protection mechanism, provided by Intel processors, has been added. When this mode is enabled […]
The release of Tor Tool 0.4.5.6 has been announced, which is used to facilitate the operation of the anonymous Tor network. Tor 0.4.5.6 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.5 branch, which has been in development for the past five months. The 0.4.5 branch will be supported during its regular maintenance cycle—release updates will cease after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.6.x branch. Long-Term Support (LTS) […]
The first releases of the re3 and reVC projects are now available, which involve reverse engineering the source code of the games GTA III and GTA Vice City, released around 20 years ago. The published releases are considered ready to compile a fully functional game. The builds have been tested on Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD on x86, amd64, arm, and arm64 systems. Additional ports are under development […]
After nearly five years since the last release, alpha testing of Slackware 15.0 has begun. The project has been in development since 1993 and is the oldest existing distribution. Key features of the distribution include a lack of complications and a straightforward initialization system in the style of classic BSD systems, making Slackware an interesting solution for learning about the workings of Unix-like systems, experimentations, and getting acquainted with Linux. […]
One of the clients of Microsoft Azure cloud was outraged by the careless approach to privacy and personal data at Microsoft and Canonical. Three hours after installing Ubuntu in the Azure cloud, a message from Canonical's sales department with promotional offers related to using Ubuntu in business appeared on LinkedIn. The message clearly stated that it […]
Collabora has released Monado 21.0.0, an open implementation of the OpenXR standard. The OpenXR standard is prepared by the Khronos consortium and defines a universal API for creating virtual and augmented reality applications, as well as a set of layers for interacting with hardware, abstracting the features of specific devices. Monado provides a runtime that fully complies with OpenXR requirements, which can be used to organize work with virtual and augmented […]
After three years since the last update, the release of the Siduction 2021.1 project has been formed, which develops a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on the Debian Sid (unstable) package base. It is noted that the preparation of the new release began about a year ago, but in April 2020, the key developer of the project, Alf Gaida, stopped responding, and nothing has been heard from him since […]
The release of the Devuan 3.1 'Beowulf' distribution has been announced, a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, delivered without the system manager systemd. Devuan 3.1 is an intermediate release, continuing the development of the Devuan 3.x branch, based on the Debian 10 'Buster' package base. Live builds and installation iso images for AMD64 and i386 architectures are prepared for download. Builds for ARM (armel, armhf, and arm64) and images for virtual machines […]
The release of the sane-backends package 1.0.32 has been prepared, which includes a set of drivers, the command-line utility scanimage, a daemon for organizing network scanning saned, and libraries implementing the SANE-API. The package supports 1652 scanner models, of which 737 have full support for all functions, for 766 the level of support is rated as good, for 126 as acceptable, and for 23 as […]