Author: Yuri Gagarin

Microsoft will not support PHP 8.0 for Windows

Dale Hirt, PHP project manager at Microsoft, warned developers that the company will not support the PHP 8.0 branch for Windows. Support for the PHP 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 branches included build support, fixes for specific errors, and development for the Windows platform. For the 8.0 branch, this work will have to be carried out by community members interested in […

Creating and configuring a Minecraft server

Today, Minecraft ranks among the most popular online games. In less than three years (the first official release was in the fall of 2011), it garnered millions of fans worldwide. The game's developers intentionally focus on the best examples from two decades ago, when many games, by today's standards, appeared primitive in terms of graphics and lacking in usability, yet genuinely captivating. Like all sandbox games, Minecraft allows the user […]

End of LTS support for Debian 8.0 "jessie"

The support period for the LTS branch of the Debian 8 Jessie distribution, released in 2015, has come to an end. Updates for the LTS branch were provided by a separate group of developers known as the LTS Team, formed by enthusiasts and representatives of companies interested in the long-term provision of updates for Debian. The initiative group has already begun forming a new LTS branch based on Debian 9 'Stretch', which will reach end of standard support on 18 […]

Update Firefox 78.0.2

A corrective release of Firefox 78.0.2 has been published, addressing a vulnerability and fixing several bugs. The vulnerability allows bypassing restrictions set through the X-Frame-Options header and injecting content from another site using object or embed tags. Among the fixes, issues related to accessibility features have been resolved, and regressive changes preventing links from opening in external applications have been addressed (in […]

Release of the P2P platform GNUnet 0.13. Promotion of GNS as an internet standard

The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee, which focuses on the development of Internet protocols and architecture, has initiated the standardization process for the GNS (GNU Name System), developed by the GNUnet project as a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant alternative to DNS. Currently, the first draft version of the standard has been published, and upon stabilization, an RFC will be formed, which will have the status of a 'Proposed Standard'. GNS can […]

Sendmail 8.16.1 has been released.

On July 5th, the release of Sendmail 8.16.1 was announced in the comp.mail.sendmail group. The program source can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/. Key changes include: support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 added, support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 removed; initial support for DANE (RFC 7672) added; support for null MX (RFC 7505) added; improved informativeness of syslog messages in several cases; several fixes in LIBMILTER; cidrexpand from […]

Serverless applications are faster and easier with OpenShift.

Red Hat OpenShift Serverless is a set of event-driven Kubernetes-oriented components for microservices, containers, and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) implementations. This out-of-the-box solution includes security and traffic routing tools and integrates Red Hat Operators, Knative, and Red Hat OpenShift to run stateless and serverless workloads on the OpenShift platform in private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. […]

Where did the space on the Confluence server go? Or Confluence statistics on attachments

Have you ever encountered a situation where your Confluence server ran out of space and you didn't know who was uploading the most attachments? To find this out, you need access to the PostgreSQL database of Confluence. With an SQL query to the PostgreSQL database, you can obtain useful statistics about Confluence. Total size of all attachments in Confluence: SELECT s.spaceid, s.spacename, sum(LONGVAL) FROM contentproperties c JOIN […]

The developers of LibreOffice are considering alternatives to the use of the label "Personal Edition".

The head of the governing board of The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of the LibreOffice open-source suite, announced that the board has analyzed the community's response to the intention of branding the office suite as 'Personal Edition'. A revised version of the marketing plan, which will take into account the suggestions and wishes of community representatives, is expected to be published next Monday. The final decision on adding the label will be made by […]

Google has established an organization to manage the trademarks of open projects.

Google has established a new nonprofit organization, 'Open Usage Commons', aimed at protecting the identity of open projects and assisting with trademark management (project name and logo), formulating usage guidelines for trademarks, and ensuring their compliance. The organization's goal is to expand the philosophy and definition of Open Source concerning trademarks. The developers are the owners of the related intellectual property concerning the code, […]

Minetest 5.3.0 has been released

Minetest is an open-source engine for creating voxel games using Lua. A substantial number of games, mods, and texture packs have already been developed for it. Version 5.3.0 has brought many updates, including: Reinstated support for Android Smoother camera movement More precise controls The standard keys for changing views and enabling the minimap have been changed to C and V […]

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