Collabora has introduced an updated version of the Wayland driver, which allows you to run applications using GDI and OpenGL/DirectX through Wine directly in a Wayland-based environment, without using the XWayland layer and getting rid of Wine’s binding to the X11 protocol. The inclusion of Wayland support in the Wine Staging branch with subsequent transfer to the main Wine composition is being discussed with the Wine developers. The new version offers […]
The DXVK 1.8 layer has been released, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires drivers that support the Vulkan 1.1 API, such as Mesa RADV 20.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games […]
Microsoft has introduced a new extension for the Visual Studio Code editor with tools for building, debugging and running projects that use build scripts based on Makefile files, as well as for editing Makefiles and quickly calling make commands. The extension has built-in settings for more than 70 open source projects that use the make utility to build, including CPython, FreeBSD, GCC, Git, […]
The developers of the BIND DNS server announced the addition of server support for the DNS over HTTPS (DoH, DNS over HTTPS) and DNS over TLS (DoT, DNS over TLS) technologies, as well as the XFR-over-TLS mechanism for secure transferring the contents of DNS zones between servers. DoH is available for testing in release 9.17, and DoT support has been present since release 9.17.10. […]
Corrective releases of the Python programming language 3.7.10 and 3.6.13 are available, which fix a vulnerability (CVE-2021-3177) that could lead to code execution when processing unvalidated floating point numbers in handlers that call C functions using the ctypes mechanism . The issue also affects Python 3.8 and 3.9 branches, but updates for them are still in candidate […]
Google has taken an initiative to address problems in open source software caused by unsafe memory handling. According to Google, 70% of security problems in Chromium are caused by memory errors, such as using a buffer after freeing the memory associated with it (use-after-free). The Microsoft study also concluded that 70% of all vulnerabilities fixed in […]
The release of the uefi-rs 0.8 package has been published with a framework for UEFI interfaces written in the Rust language. The package allows you to create secure UEFI applications in Rust for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures, as well as call UEFI functions from system programs. The uefi-rs code is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license. Source: opennet.ru
The Fedora Linux developers have announced the formation of a SIG (Special Interest Group) to support the ELN (Enterprise Linux Next) project, aimed at providing continuously evolving builds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on the Fedora Rawhide repository. The process of developing new branches of RHEL involves creating a branch from Fedora every three years, which is developed separately for some time until it is […]
Oracle has released the fifth functional update for the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5, positioned for use in the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard package with the kernel from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The kernel is available for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The kernel sources, including the breakdown into individual patches, are published in the public Oracle Git repository. Unbreakable Enterprise package […]
Corrective updates have been published for the stable branches of the BIND DNS server 9.11.28 and 9.16.12, as well as the experimental branch 9.17.10, which is in development. The new releases address a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-8625) that could potentially lead to remote code execution by an attacker. No traces of working exploits have yet been identified. The problem is caused by an error in the implementation of the SPNEGO (Simple and Protected GSSAPI […]
A new version of the video converter Cine Encoder 3.1 has been released for working with HDR video in Linux. The program is written in C++, uses the FFmpeg, MkvToolNix and MediaInfo utilities, and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. There are packages for the main distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux. The new version has improved the design of the program and added the Drag&Drop function. Program […]
A compact distribution kit for creating firewalls and network gateways pfSense 2.5.0 has been released. The distribution is based on the FreeBSD code base using the developments of the m0n0wall project and the active use of pf and ALTQ. An iso image for amd64 architecture, 360 MB in size, has been prepared for download. The distribution is managed via a web interface. To organize user access on a wired and wireless network, […]
