Google has announced that in Chrome 90, scheduled for release on April 13, it will make websites open over HTTPS by default when you type hostnames in the address bar. For example, when you enter the host example.com, the site https://example.com will be opened by default, and if problems arise when opening, it will be rolled back to http://example.com. Previously, this opportunity was already [...]
The return of Richard Stallman to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation has caused a negative reaction from some organizations and developers. In particular, the human rights organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), whose director recently won an award for his contribution to the development of free software, announced the severance of all relations with the Free Software Foundation and the curtailment of any activities intersecting with this organization, […]
Nokia, which in 2015 acquired Alcatel-Lucent, which owned the Bell Labs research center, announced the transfer of all intellectual property related to the Plan 9 project to the non-profit organization Plan 9 Foundation, which will oversee the further development of Plan 9. At the same time, the publication of the Plan9 code was announced under the MIT Permissive License in addition to the Lucent Public License and […]
The Firefox 87 web browser was released. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch 78.9.0 was created. The Firefox 88 branch has been transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for April 20. Key New Features: When using the search function and activating the Highlight All mode, the scroll bar now displays markers to indicate the position of the keys found. Removed […]
The release of the Crystal 1.0 programming language took place. The release is marked as the first significant release, which summed up 8 years of work and marked the stabilization of the language and its readiness for use in working projects. The 1.x branch will maintain backward compatibility and ensure that there are no changes to the language or standard library that negatively affect the build and operation of existing code. Releases 1.0.y […]
The Porteus Kiosk 5.2.0 distribution kit, based on Gentoo and intended for equipping autonomously operating Internet kiosks, demonstration stands and self-service terminals, has been released. The boot image of the distribution takes 130 MB (x86_64). The basic build includes only the minimum set of components required to run a web browser (Firefox and Chrome are supported), which is limited in its capabilities to prevent unwanted activity on the system (for example, […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have published a financial report for 2020. During the year, the project received donations in the amount of $2.3 million (in 2019, $1.5 million was collected), which allows it to independently develop successfully. According to available statistics, about 9.5 million people use Thunderbird every day. Expenses amounted to $1.5 million and almost all (82.3%) were related to […]
Celluloid video player 0.21 (formerly GNOME MPV) is now available, providing a GTK-based GUI for the MPV console video player. Celluloid has been chosen by the developers of the Linux Mint distribution to ship instead of VLC and Xplayer, starting with Linux Mint 19.3. Previously, the developers of Ubuntu MATE made a similar decision. In the new release: Correct operation of command line options for random and […]
Mozilla has changed the way it generates the HTTP Referer header in Firefox 87, scheduled for release tomorrow. In order to block potential leaks of confidential data, by default when navigating to other sites, the Referer HTTP header will not include the full URL of the source from which the transition was made, but only the domain. The path and request parameters will be cut out. Those. instead of "Referer: https://www.example.com/path/?arguments" there will be […]
The KDE project developers have decided to rename the set of applications developed by the KDE project, as well as related libraries and plugins, to KDE Gear. The new name will be used starting with the 21.04 release, scheduled for April 22. Previously, applications were delivered under the name KDE Applications, which replaced KDE Software Compilation in 2014, then without the name […]
After almost two years of development, the release of the open parametric 3D modeling system FreeCAD 0.19 is officially available. The source code for the release was published on February 26, and then updated on March 12, but the official announcement of the release was delayed due to the unavailability of installation packages for all announced platforms. A few hours ago there was a warning that the FreeCAD 0.19 branch was not yet officially ready […]
Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation and the League for Programming Freedom, author of the GPL license, as well as the creator of such projects as GCC, GDB and Emacs, in his speech at the LibrePlanet 2021 conference announced his return to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation. BY. The President of the SPO Foundation remains Jeffrey Knauth, who was elected in 2020 […]
