Decoding the 2020 report by Bruce Momjian "Unlocking the Postgres Lock Manager". (Note: You can find all the SQL queries from the slides at this link: http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/locking.sql) Hello! It's wonderful to be back here in Russia. I apologize for not being able to come last year, but this year Ivan and I have big plans. I hope […]
In our blog, we have already discussed how to create your own Minecraft server, but since then, five years have passed, and a lot has changed. We are sharing with you the latest methods for creating and optimizing the server side of this immensely popular game. Over its 9-year history (counting from the release date), Minecraft has gained an incredible number of fans and haters among both casual players and […]
Nick Desaulniers, who works at Google on supporting Linux kernel builds using the Clang compiler and also helps fix bugs in the Rust compiler, proposed to hold a session at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2020 to discuss the possibility of developing kernel components in Rust. Nick is organizing a micro-conference dedicated to LLVM and believes it would be beneficial […
The release of Minetest 5.3.0 has been presented, an open cross-platform version of the game MineCraft that allows groups of players to collaboratively create various structures from standard blocks, forming a virtual world (sandbox genre). The game is written in C++ using the irrlicht 3D engine. Lua is used for creating extensions. Minetest code is distributed under the LGPL license, and game resources are under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Ready […
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 […
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After the release, specifically on April 26, 2015, five years have passed. Support for the LTS version codenamed 'Jessie' has ended as of June 30, 2020. Source: linux.org.ru
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. […]