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Linux kernel developers complete audit of all patches from the University of Minnesota

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The Linux Foundation Technical Council has published a summary report examining an incident with researchers from the University of Minnesota involving an attempt to push patches into the kernel that contained hidden bugs leading to vulnerabilities. The kernel developers confirmed previously published information that out of 5 patches prepared during the “Hypocrite Commits” study, 4 patches with vulnerabilities were rejected immediately and […]

Release of speech synthesizer RHVoice 1.2.4, developed for the Russian language

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The release of the open speech synthesis system RHVoice 1.2.4 has been published, initially developed to provide high-quality support for the Russian language, but then adapted for other languages, including English, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Georgian. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Supports work on GNU/Linux, Windows and Android. The program is compatible with standard TTS (text-to-speech) interfaces for […]

Microsoft Edge browser for Linux reaches beta level

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Microsoft has moved the version of the Edge browser for the Linux platform to the beta testing stage. Edge for Linux will now be distributed through a regular beta development and delivery channel, providing a 6-week update cycle. Previously, weekly updated dev and insider builds for developers were published. The browser is available in the form of rpm and deb packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE. Among the functional improvements […]

Release of Mesa 21.1, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan

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The release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs - Mesa 21.1.0 - has been presented. The first release of the Mesa 21.1.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 21.1.1 will be released. Mesa 21.1 includes full support for OpenGL 4.6 for the 965, iris (Intel), radeonsi (AMD), zink and llvmpipe drivers. OpenGL 4.5 support is available for AMD GPUs […]

Firefox 88.0.1 update fixes critical vulnerability

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A maintenance release of Firefox 88.0.1 is available, which offers several fixes: Two vulnerabilities have been resolved, one of which is classified as critical (CVE-2021-29953). This issue allows JavaScript code to be executed in the context of another domain, i.e. allows you to implement a unique universal method of cross-site scripting. The second vulnerability (CVE-2021-29952) is caused by a race condition in Web Render components and could potentially be exploited to […]

The Pyston project, offering Python with a JIT compiler, has returned to an open development model.

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The developers of the Pyston project, which offers a high-performance implementation of the Python language using modern JIT compilation technologies, presented a new release of Pyston 2.2 and announced the return of the project to the open source. The implementation aims to achieve high performance close to that of traditional system languages ​​such as C++. The code for the Pyston 2 branch is published on GitHub under the PSFL (Python Software Foundation License), similar to […]

Release of Free Heroes of Might and Magic II 0.9.3

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The fheroes2 0.9.3 project is now available, attempting to recreate Heroes of Might and Magic II. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained, for example, from the demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II. Main changes: Support for Polish, French, German and Russian languages ​​has been implemented. IN […]

Qt Creator 4.15 Development Environment Release

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The Qt Creator 4.15 integrated development environment has been released, designed for creating cross-platform applications using the Qt library. It supports both the development of classic programs in C++ and the use of the QML language, in which JavaScript is used to define scripts, and the structure and parameters of interface elements are specified by CSS-like blocks. It is noted that Qt Creator 4.15 will be the last release in […]

Shotcut 21.05.01 Video Editor Release

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The release of the Shotcut 21.05 video editor has been published, which is developed by the author of the MLT project and uses this framework to organize video editing. Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. It is possible to use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. Among the features of Shotcut, one can note the possibility of multi-track editing with the layout of video from fragments in […]

Release of open P2P file synchronization system Syncthing 1.16

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The release of the automatic file synchronization system Syncthing 1.16 has been presented, in which synchronized data is not uploaded to cloud storage, but is directly replicated between user systems when they simultaneously appear online, using the BEP (Block Exchange Protocol) protocol developed by the project. The Syncthing code is written in Go and is distributed under the free MPL license. Ready-made assemblies are prepared for Linux, Android, […]

Facebook open-sourced Cinder, a fork of CPython used by Instagram

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Facebook has published the source code for Project Cinder, a fork of CPython 3.8.5, the main reference implementation of the Python programming language. Cinder is used in Facebook's production infrastructure to power Instagram and includes optimizations to improve performance. The code is published to discuss the possibility of porting the prepared optimizations to the main CPython framework and to help other projects involved in improving […]

Shopify joins initiative to protect Linux from patent claims

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Shopify, which develops one of the largest e-commerce platforms for making payments and organizing sales in brick-and-mortar and online stores, has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), which protects the Linux ecosystem from patent claims. It is noted that the Shopify platform uses the Ruby on Rails framework and the company considers open source software a key core of its business. Introduction […]

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