After a year of development, a new stable branch of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server nginx 1.20.0 has been introduced, which incorporates the changes accumulated in the main branch 1.19.x. In the future, all changes in the stable branch 1.20 will be related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities. Soon the main branch of nginx 1.21 will be formed, in which the development of new […]
Launched in Chrome 89, the experimental implementation of FLoC technology, developed by Google to replace Cookies that track movements, encountered resistance from the community. After implementing FLoC, Google plans to completely stop supporting third-party cookies in Chrome/Chromium that are set when accessing sites other than the domain of the current page. Currently, random testing of FLoC is already underway on a small […]
Mozilla, without mentioning it in a release note or informing users, has removed the “View Page Info” option from the Firefox 88 context menu, which is a convenient way to view page options and get links to images and resources used on the page. The hotkey “CTRL+I” to call the “View Page Info” dialog still works. You can also access the dialogue via [...]
The Firefox 88 web browser was released. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch 78.10.0 was created. The Firefox 89 branch will soon be transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for June 1. Key New Features: The PDF Viewer now supports PDF-integrated input forms that use JavaScript to provide an interactive user experience. Introduced […]
Mozilla has decided not to renew its contract with marketing company Leanplum, which included sending telemetry to mobile versions of Firefox for Android and iOS. By default, telemetry sending to Leanplum was enabled for approximately 10% of US users. Information about sending telemetry was displayed in the settings and could be disabled (in the “Data collection” menu […]
The release of the EndeavorOS project 2021.04.17 has been published, replacing the Antergos distribution, the development of which was stopped in May 2019 due to the lack of free time among the remaining maintainers to maintain the project at the proper level. The distribution offers a simple installer for installing a basic Arch Linux environment with the default Xfce desktop and the ability to install one of 9 […]
The release of OpenSSH 8.6 has been published, an open implementation of a client and server for working using the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new version eliminates a vulnerability in the implementation of the LogVerbose directive, which appeared in the previous release and allows you to increase the level of debugging information dumped into the log, including the ability to filter by templates, functions and files associated with code executed […]
The results of the annual election of the leader of the Debian project have been summed up. 455 developers took part in the voting, which is 44% of all participants with voting rights (last year the turnout was 33%, the year before 37%). This year's election featured two candidates for leadership. Jonathan Carter won and was re-elected to a second term. […]
Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway products, presented the release of the Proxmox Backup Server 1.1 distribution, which is presented as a turnkey solution for backup and recovery of virtual environments, containers and server stuffing. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are licensed under the AGPLv3 license. To install updates, it is available as a paid […]
A general vote has concluded regarding the Debian project's possible support for a petition demanding the resignation of the FSF board of directors and the removal of Stallman. Judging by the automatically calculated preliminary voting results, the seventh item on the ballot won: the project will not make any public statements regarding FSF and Stallman, project participants are free to support any petition on this matter. In addition to the chosen voting position, there is also […]
The release of the console file manager nnn 4.0 has been published, suitable for use on low-power devices with limited resources (memory consumption is about 3.5MB, and the size of the executable file is 100KB). In addition to tools for navigating files and directories, the composition includes a disk space usage analyzer, an interface for launching programs, a file selection mode for vim, and a system for bulk renaming files in […]
NVIDIA has published the first stable release of the new branch of the proprietary NVIDIA 465.24 driver. At the same time, an update to the LTS branch of NVIDIA 460.67 was proposed. The driver is available for Linux (ARM, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64) and Solaris (x86_64). Releases 465.24 and 460.67 add support for the A10, A10G, A30, PG506-232, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, T400, and T600 GPUs. Among the changes specific to the new NVIDIA branch […]
