After two years of development, Debian GNU/Linux 11.0 (Bullseye) was released, available for nine officially supported architectures: Intel IA-32/x86 (i686), AMD64 / x86-64, ARM EABI (armel), 64-bit ARM (arm64 ), ARMv7 (armhf), mipsel, mips64el, PowerPC 64 (ppc64el) and IBM System z (s390x). Updates for Debian 11 will be released over a period of 5 years. Installation images are available for download, [...]
Due to disappointment with the VSCodium development process and the retreat of the VSCodium authors from the original ideas, the main one of which was disabling telemetry, a new Uncoded project was founded, the main goal of which is to obtain a complete analogue of VSCode OSS, but without telemetry. The project was created due to the impossibility of continuing productive cooperation with the VSCodium team and the need for a working tool “for yesterday”. Create a fork […]
Presented is the release of the free sound editor Ardor 6.9, designed for multi-channel recording, processing and mixing of sound. Ardor provides a multi-track timeline, an unlimited level of rollback of changes throughout the entire process of working with a file (even after closing the program), and support for a variety of hardware interfaces. The program is positioned as a free analogue of professional tools ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix and Sequoia. The code is distributed under the license [...]
The release of the Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 distribution kit has been presented, combining the Debian software environment with the GNU/Hurd kernel. The Debian GNU/Hurd repository contains approximately 70% of the packages of the total Debian archive size, including ports of Firefox and Xfce. Debian GNU/Hurd remains the only actively developed Debian platform based on a non-Linux kernel (a port of Debian GNU/KFreeBSD was previously developed, but it has long […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.15, was released. Since the release of version 6.14, 49 bug reports have been closed and 390 changes have been made. The most important changes: The WinSock library (WS2_32) has been converted to PE (Portable Executable) format. The registry now supports performance-related counters (HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA). New 32-bit system call thunks have been added to NTDLL […]
Facebook has published developments related to the creation of a PCIe board, which includes the implementation of a miniature atomic clock and a GNSS receiver. The board can be used to organize the operation of separate time synchronization servers. The specifications, schematics, BOM, Gerber, PCB and CAD files required to manufacture the board are published on GitHub. The board is initially designed as a modular device, allowing the use of various off-the-shelf atomic clock chips and GNSS modules, […]
The August consolidated update of applications (21.08/226) developed by the KDE project has been presented. As a reminder, the consolidated set of KDE applications has been published under the name KDE Gear since April, instead of KDE Apps and KDE Applications. In total, as part of the update, releases of XNUMX programs, libraries and plugins were published. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be found on this page. The most notable innovations: […]
As previously planned, GitHub will no longer support connecting to Git objects using password authentication. The change will be applied today at 19:XNUMX (MSK), after which direct Git operations that require authentication will only be possible using SSH keys or tokens (personal GitHub tokens or OAuth). An exception is provided only for accounts using two-factor authentication that […]
Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft and Netflix are the founders of a new non-profit organization, the eBPF Foundation, created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation and aimed at providing a neutral platform for the development of technologies related to the eBPF subsystem. In addition to expanding capabilities in the eBPF subsystem of the Linux kernel, the organization will also develop projects for broader use of eBPF, for example, creating eBPF engines for embedding […]
Corrective updates have been generated for all supported PostgreSQL branches: 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18 and 9.6.23. Updates for branch 9.6 will be generated until November 2021, 10 until November 2022, 11 until November 2023, 12 until November 2024, 13 until November 2025. The new versions offer 75 fixes and eliminate […]
A year after the publication of the last significant release, the release of the Thunderbird 91 mail client, developed by community forces and based on Mozilla technologies, has been published. The new release is categorized as a long-term support release, with updates released throughout the year. Thunderbird 91 is based on the Firefox 91 ESR release codebase. The release is only available for direct download, automatic […]
ExpressVPN has announced the open source implementation of the Lightway protocol, designed to achieve minimal connection setup times while maintaining a high level of security and reliability. The code is written in C language and distributed under the GPLv2 license. The implementation is very compact and fits into two thousand lines of code. Declared support for Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android platforms, routers (Asus, Netgear, […]
