Ten months after the last release, mpv 0.33 has been released. This release allows for project builds exclusively on Python 3. The player has undergone numerous changes and fixes, including: New features: Subtitle filtering via regular expressions; HiDPI support on Windows; Support for exclusive fullscreen on d3d11; The ability to use sixel for video playback in […]
A new version of Ardour has been released — a free digital audio workstation. The main innovation is the support for VST3 plugin API across all operating systems where the program runs. Additionally, extensions from PreSonus are supported, allowing the plugin to receive information about interface scaling on high-density screens, embed a miniature version of the plugin's interface in the host, and more. Other changes include: accelerated […]
After five years of development, gmusicbrowser-1.1.16 has been released. gmusicbrowser is an audio player and music collection manager written in Perl using the gtk+ toolkit. It uses the gstreamer, mplayer, or mpv backend. It offers flexibly customizable user interface templates. It supports tag editing, renaming, searching, notifications, and more. In the new version: Support for the interface in Gtk+3. Support for opus format. Updated cover sources […]
The Scala programming language continues its development within the 2.13 branch. The latest release, Scala 2.13.4, includes several interesting new features, among which are: experimental support for libraries written in Scala 3; improved exhaustivity checking of branches when pattern matching. This check now works when using guard expressions and custom extractors; changed behavior of ExecutionContext in […]
On November 18, 2020, the long-awaited forum for software developers for Elbrus microprocessors was opened through the efforts of MCST employees. The forum is set up to operate in a closed mode: unregistered users cannot read messages, and search engines cannot index the forum pages. To register on the forum, a user must provide mandatory information: last name, first name, patronymic, contact phone number, position, organization name, department […]
An Open Source utility for generating short aliases from bash/zsh history has been published on GitHub: https://github.com/CSRedRat/topalias. The tasks that the program solves include: Analyzing files ~/bash_aliases, ~/bash_history, ~/zsh_history with the command execution history in the Linux terminal in Bash/Zsh. It offers short abbreviations (acronyms) for long, frequently typed, and hard-to-remember commands (even if you might not suspect so) […]
Version 8.12 (the latest available minor version at the time of writing this news – 8.12.1) of the Coq interactive theorem proving tool (rooster) has been released. Coq includes a programming language with dependent types Gallina (hen), based on the theory of constructions. The Coq system allows for the development of both computer-verifiable proofs of theorems and programs along with proof of compliance with specifications. The new version includes […]
On November 15, Purism started shipping the Librem 5 phones in the production model code-named Evergreen. The shipments are divided into phases. Initially, devices will be shipped to early customers. Shipments for late customers are planned for the first quarter of 2021. The device's specifications have not changed significantly. Among the latest changes is the increased battery capacity, now up to 4500 mAh.
Firefox 83 has been released, with its JS engine SpiderMonkey receiving a major update code-named Warp, resulting in improved security, performance (up to 15%), page responsiveness (up to 12%), and reduced memory usage (by 8%). For example, loading Google Docs has become approximately 20% faster. The 'HTTPS Only' mode has been deemed sufficiently mature (now it accounts for addresses in local networks where HTTPS is often applied).
The previously blocked youtube-dl repository on GitHub was unblocked on November 16 after the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) presented arguments against the DMCA claim [PDF]. GitHub (owned by Microsoft) stated that it determined the claim did not align with its DMCA removal policy. Source: linux.org.ru
This story began back in 2012 when Matthew Miller, then a new leader of the Fedora project, was tasked with a seemingly simple goal: to provide AWS cloud customers the ability to easily deploy Fedora-based servers. The technical challenge of building images suitable for use in cloud infrastructure was resolved fairly quickly. So both qcow and ...
A new version of the dynamic routing management program for linux/BSD Frrouting has been released! Available changes: BFD profile support, minimum TTL configuration support, BGP RPKI support in VRF, BGP Graceful Restart fixes, detailed route display option added, maximum-prefix force bestpath-routes configuration option for neighbor added, bgp shutdown message MSG command added... Added the ability to ...
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