After nearly three years of development, a new version of the GNU Bash command interpreter 5.3 has been released, which is used by default in most Linux distributions. At the same time, the readline library 8.3 was released, which is used in bash for command line editing. Key improvements include: New forms of command substitution "${ command; }" and "${|command;}" have been implemented, allowing the capture of command output without forking […]
The non-profit Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone, announced the upcoming issuance of free certificates for IP addresses. Unlike certificates for domains, the validity period for IP address certificates will be 30 days, and 6 days. This capability will enable secure encrypted access to hosts not only when using domain names but also when […]
Igor Pavlov announced a new version of the archiver 7-Zip 25.00. The project develops its own 7z archive format based on LZMA and LZMA2 compression algorithms. Additionally, it supports packing and unpacking archives in formats such as XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, and WIM, as well as unpacking over 30 archive formats, packages, virtual machine images, and file systems (ISO, NTFS, EXT*, UDF, UEFI, […]
Canonical has released version 1.16 of the multipass toolkit, designed to simplify the installation of various versions of Ubuntu in virtual machines run on Linux, Windows, and macOS virtualization systems. This release is notable for the complete open-sourcing of the project's codebase — the repository now includes the code for the components that facilitate operation on Windows and macOS, which was previously not publicly available. The project code is written in C++ and […]
After two years of development, the release of OpenMW 0.49 has been published, which advances the free implementation of the engine for the fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Compared to the original engine, OpenMW features a revamped user interface, improved graphics, and introduces its own editor, OpenMW-CS, for creating new games and mods, along with support for […]
Nate Graham, a quality control developer in the KDE project, has published another development report for KDE. The report mentions the KDE project's development of a new on-screen keyboard, plasma-keyboard, which is being created to replace the Maliit virtual keyboard currently used on mobile devices and touchscreen systems. The plasma-keyboard is based on the code of the Qt on-screen keyboard included in Qt […]
The CoMaps project, which develops a fork of the Organic Maps application for offline navigation using OpenStreetMap data, has released version 2025.06.30 and made ready-to-use builds available in the F-Droid, Google Play, and Apple App Store directories. For the Android platform, releases are also available for direct download in APK format. The project's code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The fork is being developed in accordance with […]
The release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server Angie 1.10.0, forked from Nginx by a group of former developers who left the company F5 Network, has been published. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. The project has received compatibility certificates with Russian operating systems Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt, and the FSTEC version of Alt. The development is supported by the company 'Web Server', which was formed […]
In Fedora Linux 43 on x86 architecture systems, they plan to keep only the option to use GPT (GUID Partition Table) partition tables in all Fedora installations using UEFI. This change has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical part of Fedora distribution development. If the proposal is approved, support for installing Fedora in UEFI mode on disks […]
After a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the programming language Perl — 5.42, has been published. Approximately 280,000 lines of code were modified in preparing the new release (excluding documentation and automatically generated code — 93,000), with changes affecting 1,500 files; 64 developers participated in the development. The 5.42 branch was released according to the established fixed schedule from twelve years ago […]
Bradley Kuhn, founder of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and former director of the Free Software Foundation, and Richard Fontana, one of the three key authors of the GPLv3 license (the other two being Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen) and former director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), announced the resumption of work on the Copyleft-next license. Development of the new license […]
The second release candidate for the installer of the upcoming major release Debian 13 'Trixie' has been published. The release of Debian 13 is expected in mid-July. Currently, there are 136 critical bugs blocking the release, which is comparable to the levels observed during the publication of past releases. Changes compared to the previous testing version of the installer include: the removal of the wget utility from busybox. The apt-setup has disabled […]