After a year of development, the free GCC 11.1 compiler suite has been released, the first significant release in the new GCC 11.x branch. In accordance with the new release numbering scheme, version 11.0 was used in the development process, and shortly before the release of GCC 11.1, the GCC 12.0 branch had already branched off, on the basis of which the next major release, GCC 12.1, would be formed. GCC 11.1 is notable […]
The developers of the Linux distribution Solus presented the release of the Budgie 10.5.3 desktop, which incorporated the results of work over the past year. The Budgie desktop is based on GNOME technologies, but uses its own implementations of the GNOME Shell, panel, applets, and notification system. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the Solus distribution, the Budgie desktop also comes in the form of the official Ubuntu edition. […]
A release of the Pale Moon 29.2 web browser is available, which forks from the Firefox code base to provide higher performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic interface organization, without […]
The release of the Linux distribution Fedora 34 has been presented. The products Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, CoreOS, Fedora IoT Edition, as well as a set of “spins” with Live builds of desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, i3, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE have been prepared for download. and LXQt. Assemblies are generated for x86_64, Power64, ARM64 (AArch64) architectures and various devices with 32-bit ARM processors. The publication of Fedora Silverblue builds is delayed. Most […]
Published an interview with Jeremy Evans, lead developer of the Sequel database library, the Roda web framework, the Rodauth authentication framework, and many other libraries for the Ruby language. He also maintains ports of Ruby for OpenBSD, contributes to the CRuby and JRuby interpreters, and many popular libraries. Source: opennet.ru
After about three years of development, the release of the initialization system Finit 4.0 (Fast init) was published, developed as a simple alternative to SysV init and systemd. The project is based on developments created by reverse engineering the fastinit initialization system used in the Linux firmware of EeePC netbooks and notable for its very fast boot process. The system is primarily aimed at ensuring the loading of compact and embedded […]
HashiCorp, known for developing the open source tools Vagrant, Packer, Nomad and Terraform, announced the leak of the private GPG key used to create digital signatures that verify releases. Attackers who gained access to the GPG key could potentially make hidden changes to HashiCorp products by verifying them with a correct digital signature. At the same time, the company stated that during an audit of traces of attempts to make such modifications […]
After eight months of development, Akira, a vector graphics editor optimized for creating user interface layouts, was released. The program is written in the Vala language using the GTK library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. In the near future, assemblies will be prepared in the form of packages for elementary OS and in snap format. The interface is designed in accordance with the recommendations prepared by the elementary […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.12. Among the most notable changes: support for zoned block devices in Btrfs, the ability to map user IDs for the file system, cleaning up legacy ARM architectures, an “eager” write mode in NFS, the LOOKUP_CACHED mechanism for determining file paths from the cache, support for atomic instructions in BPF, a debugging system KFENCE to identify errors in […]
After 7 months of development, Godot 3.3, a free game engine suitable for creating 2D and 3D games, has been released. The engine supports an easy-to-learn game logic language, a graphical environment for game design, a one-click game deployment system, extensive animation and simulation capabilities for physical processes, a built-in debugger, and a system for identifying performance bottlenecks. Game code […]
A critical vulnerability has been identified in Git (CVE-2021-29468), which appears only when building for the Cygwin environment (a library for emulating the basic Linux API on Windows and a set of standard Linux programs for Windows). The vulnerability allows attacker code to be executed when retrieving data (“git checkout”) from a repository controlled by the attacker. The problem is fixed in the git 2.31.1-2 package for Cygwin. In the main Git project the problem is still […]
A group of researchers from the University of Minnesota, whose changes were recently blocked by Greg Croah-Hartman, published an open letter apologizing and explaining the motives for their activities. Let us recall that the group was researching weaknesses in the review of incoming patches and assessing the possibility of promoting changes with hidden vulnerabilities to the kernel. After receiving a dubious patch from one of the group members […]
