Wasmer 1.0 has been released — a WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime, written in Rust. Wasm automatically places applications in a sandbox for safe execution, protecting the host from errors and vulnerabilities in them. Wasm also provides a cost-effective runtime that allows Wasmer containers to run where Docker containers are too bulky. Release features: Parallel compilation has drastically reduced compilation times for programs. […]
As of January 5, 2021, access to the source code of LTS versions of Qt is provided only to holders of a commercial license. This was announced in a mailing list by the development director of the Qt Company, Tuukka Turunen. With the release of Qt 6.0.0, as well as the upcoming release of the first bug fix release (Qt 6.0.1), it has come time to transition to exclusively commercial licensing for Qt 5.15 LTS. All existing branches […]
The 1.49 release of the Rust programming language has been published. The Rust compiler supports a wide range of systems, but the Rust team cannot provide the same level of support for all of them. To clearly indicate how well each system is supported, a level system is used: Level 3. The system is supported by the compiler, but no pre-built compiler binaries are provided and no tests are run. Level 2. Pre-built binaries are provided […]
After 9 years of development, Dmitry Grochev releases a new stable version of the raster graphics editor mtPaint 3.50. The application's interface uses GTK+ and supports running without a graphical shell. Changes include: GTK+3 support, scripting support (automation), the ability to run without a graphical shell (key —cmd), customizable key combinations, performance improvements through multithreading, additional text tool settings […]
On December 31, the latest New Year release 0.5.1 of the real-time OS for embedded systems, Embox, which is freely distributed under the BSD license, was announced: Changes include: added JS support based on the duktape project, improved support for STM32 platforms, added support for the STM32H7 series, added RTC subsystem, improved support for the efm32zg sk3200 platform, added support for the USB host controller UHCI, improved time subsystem, redesigned clock subsystem […]
In the desktop spins of Fedora, which already use Btrfs as the default file system, there are plans to enable transparent data compression by default using Facebook's Zstd library. This is concerning the future release of Fedora 34, expected at the end of April. In addition to saving disk space, transparent data compression is also intended to reduce SSD wear and tear, among other benefits […]
github-backup is a program for downloading data related to a cloned repository from GitHub: forks, bug tracker content, comments, wikis, milestones, pull requests, and a list of subscribers. Observing the situation with the youtube-dl program, when its repository was blocked along with the bug tracker and pull requests, has not deterred many from relying on GitHub — not even the developers of youtube-dl themselves […]
The "1C:Library of Standard Subsystems" (BSP) provides a set of universal functional subsystems, ready-made sections for user documentation, and technology for developing application solutions on the "1C:Enterprise" platform. With the use of BSP, rapid development of new configurations with existing basic functionality becomes possible, as well as the inclusion of ready-made functional blocks into existing configurations. The subsystems included in the BSP cover areas such as: Administration […]
The first major version of CIDER has been released – an interactive development environment for Clojure in Emacs, similar to SLIME for Common Lisp. The list of changes is small, but this is a very important milestone in the development of the project, which also starts using SemVer from this version: among the settings, two variables have been added: cider-inspector-auto-select-buffer, which allows you to toggle automatic text selection in the inspector, and cider-shadow-watched-builds, […]
On December 28, version 0.20.4 of the popular open-source planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing a realistic night sky as if you were observing it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. In total, 95 changes have been made between versions 0.20.3 and 0.20.4, of which the following can be highlighted (major changes): Added the "Calendars" plugin; Numerous changes to the "Astronomical […]
LibreOffice (free, open-source, cross-platform office suite) uses AVMedia components internally to support audio and video playback and embedding in documents or slide presentations. It also supported VLC integration for audio/video playback, but after many years without development of this originally experimental feature — VLC has now been removed, with approximately 2k lines of code deleted. GStreamer and others […]
A new release has arrived for one of the very few free open-source high-level (ERP-level) development platforms for information systems, lsFusion. The main focus in the new fourth version has been on the logic of presentations — the user interface and everything related to it. Thus, the fourth version includes: New list views of objects: Grouping (analytical) views, where users can group themselves […]