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 […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.11. Among the most notable changes: support for Intel SGX enclaves, a new system call interception mechanism, an auxiliary bus, prohibiting module builds without MODULE_LICENSE(), a fast filtering mode for system calls in seccomp, ceasing support for the ia64 architecture, moving the WiMAX technology to the 'staging' branch, and the ability to encapsulate SCTP in UDP. In […]
Vincent Canfield, administrator of the email service and hosting reseller cock.li, discovered that his entire IP network was automatically added to the DNSBL UCEPROTECT for port scanning from neighboring virtual machines. Vincent's subnet was listed at Level 3, where blocking is done by autonomous system numbers and covers entire subnets that have repeatedly triggered incidents for different addresses […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.2 has been announced. Since the release of version 6.1, 51 bug reports have been closed and 329 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.0 with DirectX support. Support for the NTDLL debugger API has been added. The WIDL (Wine Interface Definition Language) compiler has expanded support for WinRT IDL (Interface Definition Language). […]
After a year of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 distribution has been made. The project is being developed by the community after the company Mandriva S.A. transferred project management to the nonprofit organization 'OpenMandriva Association'. A Live image of size 2.4 GB (x86_64), a 'znver1' build optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors, as well as images for use on ARM devices Pinebook Pro, are available for download […]
Today, the new version of the Vivaldi browser 3.6 for Android was released. This browser is developed by former Opera Presto developers and uses the open-source Chromium engine. Among the new features of the browser, we can highlight: Page Effects — a set of JavaScript tools that allow you to modify the display of the web pages you visit. The effects are activated through the browser's main menu and can be used either individually or in combination.
The shutdown of these services will be gradual: Right now — no changes. On February 28 — the acceptance of new data will cease, the GoCenter and ChartCenter websites will stop functioning, but their services will still be available from April 12 to April 26 — preparing for shutdown. On May 1 — Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter will be completely inaccessible. Alternatives offered: Bintray.
In the implementation of the system call futex (fast userspace mutex), the use of stack memory after release was discovered and eliminated. This, in turn, allowed an attacker to execute their code in the context of the kernel, with all the resulting security implications. The vulnerability was found in the error handler code. A fix for this vulnerability was released in the Linux mainline on January 28 and […]
The first public release of the mobile-oriented operating system JingOS has been made, specifically for the JingPad C1, with mass production scheduled to begin in July 2021. The system is a fork of Ubuntu, coming with many qualities borrowed from Apple's iPad OS forked from KDE. A set of stock applications is also being developed, including a calendar, app store, PIM, voice memos, and […]
On January 28, a 0-day vulnerability was discovered in the cryptographic library libgcrypt by Tavis Ormandy from Project Zero (a team of security specialists at Google looking for 0-day vulnerabilities). The vulnerability affects only version 1.9.0 (now renamed on the upstream FTP server to avoid accidental downloads). Due to incorrect assumptions in the code, a buffer overflow is possible, potentially leading to remote code execution. The overflow can […]