The release of the system programming language Rust 1.54, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety, provides automatic memory management, and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and […]
The release of the Siduction 2021.2 project has been created, developing a desktop-oriented Linux distribution built 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 Alf Gaida project stopped communicating, about whom nothing has been heard since and other developers have not been able to find out […]
The Apache Software Foundation presented the release of the distributed DBMS Apache Cassandra 4.0, which belongs to the class of noSQL systems and is designed to create highly scalable and reliable storage of huge amounts of data stored in the form of an associative array (hash). The release of Cassandra 4.0 is recognized as ready for production implementations and has already been tested in the infrastructures of Amazon, Apple, DataStax, Instaclustr, iland and Netflix with clusters […]
The release of the distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 21.7 took place, which is a branch of the pfSense project, created with the aim of creating a completely open distribution kit that could have functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not controlled by one company, developed with the direct participation of the community and […]
Microsoft has announced the open source of the D3D9On12 layer with the implementation of a DDI (Device Driver Interface) device that translates Direct3D 9 (D3D9) commands into Direct3D 12 (D3D12) commands. The layer allows you to ensure the operation of old applications in environments that only support D3D12, for example, it may be useful for the implementation of D3D9 based on the vkd3d and VKD3D-Proton projects, which offer implementation of Direct3D 12 […]
Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.26, which contains 5 fixes. Key Changes: The Linux platform additions have fixed a regression change introduced in the last release that caused the mouse cursor to move when using the VMSVGA virtual adapter in a multi-monitor configuration. In the VMSVGA driver, the appearance of artifacts on the screen when restoring a saved […]
The release of the PulseAudio 15.0 sound server is presented, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level sound subsystems, abstracting work with the hardware. PulseAudio allows you to control the volume and mixing of audio at the level of individual applications, organize the input, mixing and output of audio in the presence of several input and output channels or sound cards, allows you to change […]
GitHub announced the creation of a service to provide free legal assistance to open source software developers accused of violating Article 1201 of the DMCA, which prohibits circumvention of technical protection measures such as DRM. The service will be overseen by lawyers from Stanford Law School and funded by a new $XNUMX million Developer Defense Fund. The funds will be spent […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has published a release of the nDPI 4.0 Deep Packet Inspection Toolkit, which continues the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to commit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which was left unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The project allows you to determine the protocols used in traffic […]
The author of the Barinsta project, which develops an alternative open Instagram client for the Android platform, received a request from lawyers representing the interests of Facebook to curtail the development of the project and remove the product. In case of non-compliance, Facebook expressed its intention to take the proceedings to another level and take the necessary legal measures to protect their rights. Barinsta is alleged to be violating Instagram's terms of use for […]
The release of the DXVK 1.9.1 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires Vulkan 1.1 API-enabled drivers such as Mesa RADV 20.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The reference implementation of the BLAKE3 1.0 cryptographic hash function has been released, notable for its very high hash computation performance while ensuring reliability at the SHA-3 level. In the hash generation test for a 16 KB file, BLAKE3 with a 256-bit key outperforms SHA3-256 by 17 times, SHA-256 by 14 times, SHA-512 by 9 times, SHA-1 by 6 times, A […]
