The free strategy (RTS) game Warzone 2100 4.0.0 has been released. The game was originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and released to the market in 1999. In 2004, the source code was opened under the GPLv2 license and the development of the game continued through the community. Both single-player games against bots and online games are supported. Packages are prepared for Ubuntu, Windows and […]
The first results of the analysis of an incident related to the identification of two malicious commits in the Git repository of a PHP project with a backdoor activated when sending a request with a specially designed User Agent header have been published. In the course of studying the traces of the attackers’ activities, it was concluded that the git.php.net server itself, on which the git repository was located, was not hacked, but the database with […]
Mozilla developers have decided not to remove the compact panel display mode and will continue to provide functionality related to it. In this case, the user-visible setting for selecting the panel mode (the “hamburger” menu in the panel -> Customize -> Density -> Compact or Personalization -> Icons -> Compact) will be removed by default. To return the setting to about:config, the parameter “browser.compactmode.show” will appear, returning the button […]
Google has introduced a new audio codec, Lyra, optimized to achieve maximum voice quality even when using very slow communication channels. The Lyra implementation code is written in C++ and open under the Apache 2.0 license, but among the dependencies required for operation there is a proprietary library libsparse_inference.so with a kernel implementation for mathematical calculations. It is noted that the proprietary library is temporary […]
The developers of the KDE Neon project, which creates Live builds with current versions of KDE programs and components, announced the termination of development of the LTS edition of KDE neon Plasma, which was supported for eighteen months instead of the usual four. The build was designed for everyday use by people who want to get new versions of applications, but maintain a stable desktop (an LTS branch of the Plasma desktop was offered, but the latest […]
Due to the Qt Company restricting access to the Qt 5.15 LTS branch source repository, the KDE project has begun supplying its own collection of patches, the Qt5PatchCollection, aimed at keeping the Qt 5 branch afloat until the community migrates to Qt6. KDE took over the maintenance of patches for Qt 5.15, including fixes for functional defects, crashes and vulnerabilities. […]
Corrective releases of the Ruby programming language 3.0.1, 2.7.3, 2.6.7 and 2.5.9 have been generated, in which two vulnerabilities are eliminated: CVE-2021-28965 - a vulnerability in the built-in REXML module, which, when parsing and serializing a specially designed XML document may lead to the creation of an incorrect XML document whose structure does not match the original. The severity of the vulnerability depends greatly on the context, but attacks against […]
The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.10 is introduced, which can be used on various portable devices, boards and car infotainment systems. Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and development is curated by the community, adhering to a collaborative development management model. The webOS platform was originally developed by […]
Leonid Khozyainov prepared a translation of documentation for CPython 3.8.8. The published material in its structure, design and functionality tends to the official documentation docs.python.org. The following sections have been translated: Textbook (for those who are just taking their first steps in Python programming) Standard Library Reference (a rich collection of built-in modules for solving everyday problems) Language Reference (language constructs, operators, […]
The US Supreme Court has issued a decision regarding the consideration of the Oracle v. Google litigation, which has been dragging on since 2010, related to the use of the Java API in the Android platform. The highest court sided with Google and found that its use of the Java API was fair use. The court agreed that Google's goal was to create a different system focused on solving […]
On April 17, the preliminary discussion was completed and the vote began, which should determine the official position of the Debian project regarding the return of Richard Stallman to the post of head of the Free Software Foundation. Voting will last two weeks, until April XNUMX. The vote was initially initiated by Canonical employee Steve Langasek, who proposed the first version of the statement for ratification (calling for the resignation of the […]
The Federal Service for Technical and Export Control has concluded a contract with the Institute of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) to carry out work to create a technology center for researching the security of operating systems created based on the Linux kernel. The contract also involves the creation of a software and hardware complex for a center for research into the security of operating systems. The contract amount is 300 million rubles. Completion date […]
