The long-awaited (since last fall) release of the decentralized video hosting network PeerTube v3. PeerTube is a free alternative to YouTube, where anyone can set up their own server - either private or part of the public network (fediverse). This can significantly increase the network's resistance to censorship. Key features of this release: live streaming menu redesign, interface for managing video comments […]
The Government of the Russian Federation has approved an official list of applications that must be pre-installed on smartphones and TVs imported and sold in the Russian Federation (as well as other “smart” devices where third-party applications from the market can be installed). Starting from April 1, 2021, all devices imported into the country must be pre-installed with applications included in an approved package, which includes […]
Released Wasmer 1.0, a WebAssembly runtime (Wasm) written in Rust. Wasm automatically sandboxes applications for safe execution, protecting the host from bugs and vulnerabilities in them. Wasm also provides a cost-effective runtime environment that allows Wasmer containers to run where Docker containers are too cumbersome. Features of the release: Parallel compilation has significantly reduced the compilation time of programs. […]
From January 5, 2021, access to the source code of LTS versions of Qt is provided only to commercial license holders. Tuuka Turunen, director of development at Qt Company, announced this in a newsletter. With the release of Qt 6.0.0, as well as the imminent release of the first corrective release (Qt 6.0.1), it is time to move to the stage of exclusively commercial licensing of Qt 5.15 LTS. All existing branches […]
General functionality: Internal storage of business objects has been implemented. Chat for participants in a business process instance has been implemented. In the WS API, commands for working with signals have been added to the service for managing processes and monitoring their execution. For variables, validation of default values has been added. Added the ability to validate parameters of subprocesses and multi-subprocesses at startup. RunaWFE Server Sending a signal from the web interface has been implemented. […]
Adding to the distributions page - Black Cat Linux (Ukraine) Source: linux.org.ru
Release 1.49 of the Rust programming language has been published. The Rust compiler supports a wide range of systems, but the Rust team cannot provide the same level of support for all of them. To clearly indicate how supported each system is, a leveling system is used: Level 3. The system is supported by the compiler, but no compiler builds are provided or tests are run. Level 2. Ready-made assemblies are provided […]
After 9 years of development, Dmitry Groshev releases a new stable release of the raster graphics editor mtPaint version 3.50. The application interface uses GTK+ and supports the ability to run without a graphical shell. Among the changes: Support for GTK+3 Support for scripts (automation) Support for working without a graphical shell (switch -cmd) Ability to reconfigure keyboard shortcuts Performance improvements through the use of multi-threading Additional settings for text tools […]
On December 31, the next New Year's release 0.5.1 of the free, BSD-licensed, real-time OS for embedded systems Embox took place: Changes: Added JS support based on the duktape project Improved support for STM32 platforms Added support for the STM32H7 series Added RTC subsystem Improved support for the efm32zg sk3200 platform Added support for USB UHCI host controller Improved time subsystem Redesigned clock subsystem […]
Fedora desktop spins, which already use the Btrfs file system by default, plan to enable transparent data compression using the Zstd library from Facebook by default. We are talking about the future release of Fedora 34, which should appear at the end of April. In addition to saving disk space, transparent data compression is also designed to reduce wear and tear on SSDs and other […]
github-backup is a program for downloading data from GitHub related to a cloned repository: forks, bug tracker contents, comments, wikisites, milestones, pull requests, list of subscribers. Having seen that even what happened with the youtube-dl program, when its repository was blocked along with the bugracker and pull requests, few people pushed to abandon their dependence on GitHub - not even the developer of youtube-dl itself - [...]
This is an updated release of the game Bubble Chains from back in 2010. The goal of the game is to collect chains of balls of the same color, thereby destroying the targets at the bottom of the screen. Having destroyed all the targets, we move on to the next level. Version 0.2 includes the original game code with Qt 5.x support and original resources. What has changed in this version: The game works fine [...]
