The release candidate for the installer for the next major Debian release, “Bullseye,” has been published. The release is expected in the summer of 2021. Currently, there are 185 critical errors blocking the release (a month ago there were 240, three months ago - 472, at the time of freezing in Debian 10 - 316, Debian 9 - 275, Debian 8 - 350, Debian 7 - 650). Final […]
OpenBSD has adopted changes to implement a port for the RISC-V architecture. Support is currently limited to the OpenBSD kernel and still requires some work for the system to work properly. In its current form, the OpenBSD kernel can already be loaded into a QEMU-based RISC-V emulator and transferred control to the init process. Among the plans for the future, mention is made of the implementation of support for multiprocessing (SMP), ensuring the system loads in […]
The PINE64 community, which creates open devices, announced the release of InfiniTime 1.0, the official firmware for the PineTime smartwatch. It is stated that the new firmware version allows the PineTime watch to be considered a product ready for end users. The list of changes includes a significant redesign of the interface, as well as an improvement in the notification manager and a fix for the TWI driver, which previously caused crashes in games. Watch […]
The developers of the Grafana data visualization platform announced the transition to the AGPLv3 license, instead of the previously used Apache 2.0 license. A similar license change was made for the Loki log aggregation system and the Tempo distributed tracing backend. Plugins, agents, and some libraries will continue to be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Interestingly, some users note that one of the reasons for the success of the Grafana project is […]
The release of the ToaruOS 1.14 project is available, developing a Unix-like operating system written from scratch with its own kernel, boot loader, standard C library, package manager, user space components and a graphical interface with a composite window manager. At the current stage of development, the system's capabilities are sufficient to run Python 3 and GCC. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. For […]
The April consolidated update of applications (21.04/225) developed by the KDE project has been presented. Starting with this release, the consolidated set of KDE applications will now be published under the name KDE Gear, instead of KDE Apps and KDE Applications. In total, as part of the April update, releases of XNUMX programs, libraries and plugins were published. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be found on this page. […]
A release of the Ubuntu 21.04 “Hirsute Hippo” distribution is available, which is classified as an intermediate release, updates for which are generated within 9 months (support will be provided until January 2022). Installation images are created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu and UbuntuKylin (Chinese edition). Main changes: The desktop quality continues [...]
The Chrome OS 90 operating system was released, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild / portage assembly toolkit, open components and the Chrome 90 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and web applications are used instead of standard programs, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop and taskbar. Build Chrome OS 90 […]
Corrective releases of OpenVPN 2.5.2 and 2.4.11 have been prepared, a package for creating virtual private networks that allows you to organize an encrypted connection between two client machines or provide a centralized VPN server for the simultaneous operation of several clients. The OpenVPN code is distributed under the GPLv2 license, ready-made binary packages are generated for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and Windows. The new releases fix a vulnerability (CVE-2020-15078) that allows […]
Microsoft has announced the start of testing the ability to run Linux applications with a graphical interface in environments based on the WSL2 subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux), designed to run Linux executable files on Windows. Applications are fully integrated with the main Windows desktop, including support for placing shortcuts in the Start menu, audio playback, microphone recording, OpenGL hardware acceleration, […]
Greg Kroah-Hartman, responsible for maintaining the stable branch of the Linux kernel, decided to prohibit the acceptance of any changes coming from the University of Minnesota into the Linux kernel, and also to roll back all previously accepted patches and re-review them. The reason for the blocking was the activities of a research group studying the possibility of promoting hidden vulnerabilities into the code of open-source projects. The said group sent patches […]
Node.js 16.0 was released, a platform for running network applications in JavaScript. Node.js 16.0 is classified as a long-term support branch, but this status will be assigned only in October, after stabilization. Node.js 16.0 will be supported until April 2023. Maintenance of the previous LTS branch of Node.js 14.0 will last until April 2023, and the year before last LTS branch 12.0 […]
