The Orbiter Space Flight Simulator project has been open sourced, offering a realistic space flight simulator that complies with the laws of Newtonian mechanics. The motive for opening the code is the desire to provide the community with the opportunity to continue the development of the project after the author has been unable to develop for several years for personal reasons. The project code is written in C++ with scripts in [...]
When discussing the recently published 27th edition of a set of patches with the implementation of the NTFS file system from Paragon Software, Linus Torvalds said that he sees no obstacles to accepting this set of patches in the next window for accepting changes. If no unexpected problems are identified, Paragon Software's NTFS support will be included in the 5.15 kernel, which will be released […]
The developers of the server-side JavaScript platform Node.js have published corrective releases 12.22.4, 14.17.4 and 16.6.0, which partially correct a vulnerability (CVE-2021-22930) in the http2 module (HTTP/2.0 client), which allows to initiate a process crash or potentially organize the execution of your code in the system when accessing a host controlled by the attacker. The problem is caused by accessing an already freed memory area when closing the connection after receiving RST_STREAM frames […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.14, was released. Since the release of version 6.13, 30 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine with the implementation of .NET technology has been updated to release 6.3.0. WOW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows, adds 32-bit system call thunks to […]
A group of researchers from the University of Turku (Finland) published the results of an analysis of packages in the PyPI repository for the use of potentially dangerous constructs that could lead to vulnerabilities. During the analysis of 197 thousand packages, 749 thousand potential security problems were identified. 46% of packages have at least one such problem. Among the most common problems are deficiencies associated with [...]
The developers of the GNU C Library (glibc) system library have made changes to the rules for accepting changes and transferring copyrights, canceling the mandatory transfer of property rights to the code to the Open Source Foundation. By analogy with the changes previously adopted in the GCC project, the signing of a CLA agreement with the Open Source Foundation in Glibc has been transferred to the category of optional operations carried out at the request of the developer. Changes to the rules allowing admission […]
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 […]
