Three months after the last release of KDevelop, the KDE project's cross-platform free integrated development environment, a minor release has been released with bug fixes and minor changes. Notable changes: Fixed incompatibility of kdev-python with Python versions lower than 3.9; gdb 10.x support has been improved; Fixed a bug that appeared when running several tests on the same executable files […]
On December 8, Intel released a set of software tools designed for developing programs using a single programming interface (API) for various computing accelerators, including vector processor processors (CPUs), graphics accelerators (GPUs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) - Intel oneAPI Toolkits for XPU Software Development. The oneAPI Base Toolkit contains compilers, libraries, analysis tools […]
Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project, has created a new project to “resurrect” CentOS - Rocky Linux. For these purposes, the domain rockylinux.org rockylinux.org was registered and a repository was created on Github. At the moment, Rocky Linux is in the planning stage and forming a development team. Kurtzer stated that Rocky Linux will be classic CentOS - "100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat […]
Google is making its Fuchsia operating system more open, according to a new post. The repository https://fuchsia.googlesource.com has been opened, where you can see how it developed over time. A mailing list has been opened, a management model has been opened, the roles of contributors have been described, and instructions have appeared on how to start working with the OS. Source: linux.org.ru
CRUX 3.6 released glibc dependencies now use python3. Python3 itself migrated from the OPT branch to CORE packages. The rpc and nls dependencies were cut out from glibc and put into separate packages: libnsl and rpcsvc-proto. Renamed packages Mesa3d to Mesa, openrdate to rdate, jdk to jdk8-bin. To get more attention, the alias file for prt-get has been moved to /etc. […]
Version 5.6 of the WordPress content management system is available, named “Simone” in honor of the jazz singer Nina Simone. The main changes relate to customizing the appearance and improving security: Ability to flexibly customize the site's storyboard (layout) without the need to edit the code; Preliminary selections of various block arrangement schemes in theme templates to speed up customization of the site’s appearance; Twenty Twenty-One is an updated […]
In 2021, CentOS 8 will cease to exist as a separate corporate rebuild distribution and will become CentOS Stream, which will be a “gateway” between Fedora and RHEL. That is, it will contain newer, relative to RHEL, packages. However, CVEs will be fixed for RHEL first and then ported to CentOS, as is happening now. According to the maintainers, this is not [...]
Alien “Eric” Bob is on the line and reports that as of December 7, Plasma 5 is replacing KDE4 in Slackware: “Finally, a big step towards the first beta release of Slackware 15.” Because Patrick was able to merge the vtown packages into Slackware-current from testing into the main distribution. Source: linux.org.ru
The proprietary RAR archiver version 6.00 was released. List of changes in the console version: The “Skip” and “Skip all” options have been added to the request for reading errors. The "Skip" option allows you to continue processing only with the part of the file that has already been read, and the "Skip All" option does the same for all subsequent read errors. For example, if you are archiving a file, part of which is locked […]
New features of Qt 6.0: A single hardware rendering interface with support for Direct 3D, Metal, Vulkan and OpenGL Rendering of 2D and 3D graphics is combined into a single graphics stack Qt Quick Controls 2 received a more native appearance Support for fractional scaling for HiDPI screens Added QProperty subsystem, providing seamless integration of QML into C++ source code Improved Concurrency […]
Vivaldi Technologies today announced the final release of the Vivaldi 3.5 web browser for personal computers. The browser is being developed by former developers of the Opera Presto browser and their main goal is to create a customizable and functional browser that preserves the privacy of user data. The new version adds the following changes: New view of the list of grouped tabs; Customizable context menus Express panels; Added combinations […]
The free and cross-platform real-time strategy Mindustry has been released in a new major version 6.0. The strategy has a rather strong focus on the tasks of creating chains for the extraction and production of building materials, ammunition, fuel, and units. Among the changes since the previous version 5.0: The single-player campaign has been changed. Now the field of action is a planet on which the player will have to fight the enemy, developing a technology tree. […]
