Today, October 27, Fedora 33 has been released. Various installation options are offered: the classic Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server, Fedora for ARM, a new edition of Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Core OS, and many variations of Fedora Spins tailored for specialized tasks. Installation images are published on the website https://getfedora.org/. You can also […]
The open-source monitoring system Zabbix 5.2 has been released. Zabbix is a versatile system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and network equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services, and cloud infrastructure. The system implements a complete cycle from data collection, processing and transformation, analysis of the obtained data, to data storage […]
This project is intended for automatic firmware updates in Linux. By default, fwupd downloads firmware from the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). This service was created for OEM manufacturers and firmware developers who want to make their firmware available to Linux users. Some new features added in this release include commands to interact with the ESP in fwupdtool, a plugin for fingerprint sensors […]
The BiglyBT client has added full support for the BitTorrent v2 specification, including hybrid torrents. According to the developers, BitTorrent v2 has several advantages, some of which will be noticeable to users. BiglyBT was released in the summer of 2017. The open-source software was developed by Parg and TuxPaper, who previously worked on Azureus and Vuze. The developers have now released a new version of BiglyBT. The latest […]
On October 23, the 50th release of the 0.5.0 free, BSD-licensed real-time OS for embedded systems Embox took place: Changes: Added the ability to separate streams and tasks Added the ability to set the task stack size Improved STM32 support (added support for the f1 series, cleaned up the f3, f4, f7, l4 series) Improved ttyS subsystem performance Added support for NETLINK sockets Simplified DNS configuration […]
GDB is a source code debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many other programming languages. GDB supports debugging on over a dozen different architectures and can run on the most popular software platforms (GNU/Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows). GDB 10.1 includes the following changes and improvements: Support for debugging BPF (bpf-unknown-none) GDBserver now supports the following […]
This release fixes 36 bugs, including mouse cursor issues and crashes of Wine when running on FreeBSD 12.1. New in this release: Additional work on implementing the DSS cryptographic provider. A number of fixes for windowless RichEdit. Support for FLS callbacks. Added window resizing in the new console implementation Various bug fixes. The source code can be downloaded from […]
At the request of the RIAA, the main repository of the youtube-dl source code and all its forks on github.com have been blocked. All download links and documentation from the website https://youtube-dl.org return a 404 error, but the page on pypi.org (packages for pip, requiring Python installation) remains operational for now. youtube-dl is a popular open-source program for downloading video and audio files from several popular sites: […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which is responsible for the development of internet protocols and architecture, has published RFC 8905 describing the new resource identifier (URI) "payto:" designed for organizing interactions with payment systems. RFC has attained the status of a "Proposed Standard", after which work will begin to elevate the RFC to a Draft Standard status, effectively meaning complete stabilization of the protocol and consideration of all the feedback provided […]
Keith Packard, an active developer of Debian, leader of the X.Org project, and creator of many X extensions, including XRender, XComposite, and XRandR, has released version 1.4.7 of the standard C library PicoLibc, developed for use in embedded devices with limited permanent storage and RAM. Part of the code was borrowed from the newlib library from the Cygwin project and AVR Libc during development.
The final version of the software synthesizer Odin 2 for Linux has been released in VST3 and LV2 formats. The source code is available under the GPLv3+ license on GitHub. Features: 24 voices; 3 OSC, 3 filters, separate distortion, 4 FX, 4 ADSR envelopes, 4 LFOs; modulation matrix; arpeggiator; step sequencer; XY-Pad for combining modulation sources; scalable interface. Documentation is available in PDF. Source: […]
The release of the Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' distribution is now available, which is categorized as an interim release, with updates being provided for 9 months (support will continue until July 2021). Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). Key changes include updated application versions.