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MariaDB 10.6 stable release

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After a year of development and three preliminary releases, the first stable release of the new branch of the MariaDB 10.6 DBMS has been published, within which a branch of MySQL is being developed that maintains backward compatibility and is distinguished by the integration of additional storage engines and advanced capabilities. Support for the new branch will be provided for 5 years, until July 2026. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent MariaDB Foundation in accordance with […]

Release of VKD3D-Proton 2.4, fork of Vkd3d with Direct3D 12 implementation

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Valve has published the release of VKD3D-Proton 2.4, a fork of the vkd3d codebase designed to improve Direct3D 12 support in the Proton game launcher. VKD3D-Proton supports Proton-specific changes, optimizations and improvements for better performance of Windows games based on Direct3D 12, which have not yet been adopted into the main part of vkd3d. The differences also include [...]

The Tor project has unveiled a Rust implementation that will replace the C version in the future

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The developers of the anonymous Tor network presented the Arti project, within which work is underway to create an implementation of the Tor protocol in the Rust language. Unlike the C implementation, which was first designed as a SOCKS proxy and then tailored to other needs, Arti is initially developed in the form of a modular embeddable library that can be used by various applications. Work is already underway [...]

Linux Mint 20.2 distribution release

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The release of the Linux Mint 20.2 distribution is presented, which continues the development of the branch based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu, but differs significantly in the approach to organizing the user interface and the selection of applications used by default. The developers of Linux Mint provide a desktop environment that follows the classic canons of desktop organization, which is more familiar to users who do not accept the new […]

systemd system manager release 249

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After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 249 is presented. The new release provides the ability to define users/groups in JSON format, stabilizes the Journal protocol, simplifies the organization of loading successive disk partitions, adds the ability to link BPF programs to services, and implements identifier mapping users in mounted partitions, a large portion of new network settings and opportunities for launching containers are offered. Basic […]

Release of Proxmox VE 7.0, a distribution kit for organizing the work of virtual servers

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix, has been released hypervisor. The size of the installation iso-image is 1 GB. Proxmox VE provides the means to deploy a turnkey virtual […]

nginx 1.21.1 release

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The main branch of nginx 1.21.1 has been released, within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel supported stable branch 1.20, only changes related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities are made). Major changes: Nginx now always returns an error when using the CONNECT method; when simultaneously specifying the “Content-Length” and “Transfer-Encoding” headers; if there are spaces or control characters in the string [...]

Mozilla stops development of the Firefox Lite browser

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Mozilla has decided to discontinue development of the Firefox Lite web browser, which was positioned as a lightweight version of Firefox Focus, adapted to work on systems with limited resources and low-speed communication channels. The project was developed by a team of Mozilla developers from Taiwan and was aimed primarily at delivery in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China and developing countries. Generating updates […]

Ubuntu 21.10 moves to use zstd algorithm to compress deb packages

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Ubuntu developers have begun converting deb packages to use the zstd algorithm, which will almost double the speed of installing packages, at the cost of a slight increase in their size (~6%). It is noteworthy that support for using zstd was added to apt and dpkg back in 2018 with the release of Ubuntu 18.04, but was not used for package compression. Debian already supports zstd […]

XiangShan Open RISC-V Processor Created in China to Compete with ARM Cortex-A76

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The Institute of Computer Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences presented the XiangShan project, which since 2020 has been developing a high-performance open processor based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (RV64GC). The project's developments are open under the permissive MulanPSL 2.0 license. The project has published a description of hardware blocks in the Chisel language, which is translated into Verilog, a reference implementation based on FPGA and images for simulating the operation of the chip in […]

Release of Tor Browser 10.5

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After ten months of development, the significant release of the dedicated browser Tor Browser 10.5 is presented, which continues the development of functionality based on the ESR branch of Firefox 78. The browser is focused on providing anonymity, security and privacy, all traffic is redirected only through the Tor network. It is impossible to contact directly through the standard network connection of the current system, which does not allow tracking the user’s real IP (in case […]

Audacity fork creator left the project after a conflict over choosing a new name

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The founder of the fork “temporary-audacity” (now tenacity) announced that he was resigning as maintainer due to bullying during the voting process for choosing the name of the project. Users of the /g/ section of the 4chan forum forced the name Sneedacity, where "sneed" is a reference to the "Sneed's Feed & Seed" meme. The author of the fork did not accept this name, held a new vote and approved the name “tenacity”. […]

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