The release of the Alt Server 11.0 distribution has taken place, built on the ALT 11 platform. The distribution is provided under a License Agreement that allows free use by individuals. Commercial and governmental organizations can download and test the distribution, but for permanent operation within corporate infrastructure, legal entities must purchase licenses or enter into written license agreements. Installation images have been prepared […]
The release of MariaDB 11.8.2 has been announced, marked as the first stable release of the 11.8 branch. The MariaDB 11.8 branch is classified as a long-term support release and will be maintained for at least 5 years. At the same time, MariaDB 12.0.1 is available, which has release candidate status. The MariaDB project develops a fork of MySQL that retains backward compatibility while integrating additional storage engines […]
After 7 months of development, the release of the Sway 1.11 compositor manager has been published, built using the Wayland protocol and compatible with the i3 tiling window manager and i3bar panel. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use in Linux and FreeBSD. Sway allows windows to be arranged on the screen logically rather than spatially. Windows […]
The release of the NST 42 (Network Security Toolkit) Live distribution has been announced, designed for network security analysis and monitoring its operation. The size of the bootable ISO image (x86_64) is 5 GB. A special repository has been prepared for Fedora Linux users, enabling the installation of all developments created within the NST project on an already installed system. The distribution is based on Fedora and allows installation […]
The Hyprland compositor server and related packages, such as hyprland-protocols and hyprutils, have been removed from the Debian Testing repository and will not be included in the upcoming stable release of Debian 13, which is in its final preparation stage. In the Debian Unstable branch, packages with Hyprland are retained. The reason for the exclusion of Hyprland from the next stable release was a request from the maintainer, who stated that the version provided in the Debian package […]
The Linux Foundation has introduced the FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) project, providing a decentralized alternative to the plugin and theme distribution ecosystem for WordPress. FAIR allows users to create their own repositories and mirrors on their servers for delivering plugins, independent of centralized hosting on WordPress.org. The code is written in PHP and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. The platform consists of the following components: Plugin […]
As part of the X11Libre project, the development of a fork of the X.org Server has begun, aimed at cleaning up the codebase and continuing the active development of X.org's functionality. The project was created by Enrico Weigelt, maintainer of AMD FCH GPIO and VIRTIO GPIO drivers in the Linux kernel, maintainer of Xnest, and an active developer of Xorg. In the project announcement, Enrico noted that the freedesktop.org project is not independent […]
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have published the TPDE toolkit and a backend compiler for LLVM based on it — TPDE-LLVM, which provides the generation of machine code for x86-64 and AArch64 architectures from the LLVM-IR intermediate representation. During testing, TPDE-LLVM was found to be 10-20 times faster than the LLVM -O0 backend (the code generator without optimizations) while maintaining the same level of performance for the resulting machine […]
Google has summarized the optimizations made in Chrome since last August. Changes have allowed for a 22% speed increase in passing the Speedometer 3 test (from 42.84 to 52.35 points) and achieving the best results among all browsers. It was mentioned that the performance gain collectively will reduce website loading wait times for all browser users by 58 million hours if […]
After three years of development, the release of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.3.0 has been published, allowing the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX-like systems, and mobile platforms. The toolkit is written in C++ and is distributed under the wxWindows Library License, approved by the Free Software Foundation and the OSI organization. This license is based on LGPL and allows for setting custom conditions for distributing derivative works […]
The built-in Python module tarfile, which provides functions for reading and writing tar archives, has revealed five vulnerabilities, one of which has been assigned a critical danger level. The vulnerabilities have been addressed in releases Python 3.13.4 and 3.12.11. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2025-4517) allows for files to be written to any part of the file system when extracting a specially crafted archive. In system scripts using […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.21 internet application suite has been announced, combining a web browser, email client, NNTP conference client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and the WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client ChatZilla, the web developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar planner Lightning. The new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]