The first beta release of the GNOME 41 user environment has been introduced, marking the freeze of changes related to the user interface and API. The release is scheduled for September 22, 2021. To test GNOME 41, experimental builds from the GNOME OS project have been prepared. Let us recall that GNOME switched to a new version numbering, according to which, instead of 3.40, release 40.0 was published in the spring, followed by […]
GitHub has decided to discontinue support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in the NPM package repository and all sites associated with the NPM package manager, including npmjs.com. Starting October 4, connecting to the repository, including installing packages, will require a client that supports at least TLS 1.2. On GitHub itself, support for TLS 1.0/1.1 was […]
After five months of development, the release of a multi-platform toolkit for creating a graphical user interface - GTK 4.4.0 - has been presented. GTK 4 is being developed as part of a new development process that attempts to provide application developers with a stable and supported API for several years that can be used without the fear of having to rewrite applications every six months due to API changes in the next GTK branch. […]
The developers of the raster graphics editor Krita warned users about the fact that scammers sent emails with a proposal to post promotional materials on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The scammers pretend to be a team of Krita developers and call for cooperation, but in fact they are not connected with the Krita project in any way and pursue their own goals. Source: opennet.ru
The initiative to implement Linux support for the Apple M1 chip, promoted by the Asahi Linux and Corellium projects, has reached the point where it is possible to run the GNOME desktop in a Linux environment running on a system with the Apple M1 chip. Screen output is organized using a framebuffer, and OpenGL support is provided using the LLVMPipe software rasterizer. The next step is to use the display […]
Shattered Pixel Dungeon 1.0 has been released, a turn-based roguelike computer game that offers you to go through dynamically generated dungeon levels, collecting artifacts, training your character and defeating monsters. The game uses pixel graphics in the style of old games. The game continues the development of the source code of the Pixel Dungeon project. The code is written in Java and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Files to run […]
Michael Forney, developer of the swc composite server based on the Wayland protocol, is developing a new cproc compiler that supports the C11 standard and some GNU extensions. To generate optimized executable files, the compiler uses the QBE project as a backend. The compiler code is written in C and is distributed under the free ISC license. Development has not yet been completed, but at the current […]
A release of the Bubblewrap 0.5.0 Sandboxing Toolkit is now available, typically used to restrict individual applications to unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer to isolate applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. For isolation, traditional Linux container virtualization technologies are used, […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 6.3-6 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]
After four months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.7, an open implementation of a client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, was presented. Major changes: An experimental data transfer mode using the SFTP protocol has been added to scp instead of the traditionally used SCP/RCP protocol. SFTP uses more predictable name handling methods and does not use shell glob processing […]
The release of packet filter nftables 1.0.0 has been published, unifying packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP and network bridges (aimed at replacing iptables, ip6table, arptables and ebtables). The changes required for the nftables 1.0.0 release to work are included in the Linux 5.13 kernel. A significant change in the version number is not associated with any fundamental changes, but is only a consequence of the sequential continuation of numbering […]
The release of the BusyBox 1.34 package is presented with the implementation of a set of standard UNIX utilities, designed as a single executable file and optimized for minimal consumption of system resources with a package size of less than 1 MB. The first release of the new branch 1.34 is positioned as unstable, full stabilization will be provided in version 1.34.1, which is expected in about a month. The project code is distributed under the license [...]
