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. […]
True, it's not free. Slightly corrected machine translation: Hello! I'm Hector Martin and I like to install Linux on various devices - most recently the PS4. Apple has just released a new line of ARM-based Apple Silicon Macs that are superior to all other ARM machines in the same class. It would be nice if they could also run […]
Today a new stable version of the Vivaldi 3.5 browser for Android was released. New features include: The ability to selectively clear browsing data when exiting the browser; Option to close all tabs when exiting; Sorting notes and bookmarks; Option to disable IP translation for WebRTC. Other changes include improvements to the Express panel and browser interface, as well as bug fixes in the browser. Browser […]
A major update to the file system and its maintenance tools, OpenZFS 2.0.0, has been released. The new version supports Linux kernels starting from 3.10 and FreeBSD kernels starting from version 12.2, and in addition to this, it now combines code for both operating systems in a single repository. Among the largest changes, the developers note the following: Added the ability to sequentially (LBA) rebuild a destroyed Mirror RAID array […]
Veloren is an open source multiplayer role-playing game powered by a voxel engine, written in Rust and inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. The game is in an early stage of development, but can already be played online. Veloren is completely open source, licensed under GPL 3. It […]
The PHP development team announced the release of a new version of the language - PHP 8.0.0. Improvements and new features: Union Types. Instead of PHPDoc annotations for type combinations, you can use native union type declarations, which are checked at runtime. Named arguments. Instead of PHPDoc annotations, you can now use structured metadata with native PHP syntax. Nullsafe operator. Instead of checking for [...]
The long-awaited (for the author of the news) release of the most famous system manager in the GNU/Linux world (and even a little beyond it) - systemd. In this release: udev tags now refer to the device rather than the event associated with the device - this breaks backwards compatibility, but only to correctly handle the backwards compatibility break introduced back in […]
Version 0.9.2 of the libmdbx library has been released, implementing an ultra-fast compact embedded key-value engine. libmdbx is a deep reworking of the legendary LMDB DBMS and, according to the developers, is superior to its predecessor in reliability, range of capabilities and performance. Major innovations, improvements and fixes: Bindings are available for Nim (by Jens Alfke, architect at Couchbase) and Rust (by Clément Renault, founder of MeiliSearch). Package available for […]
Good afternoon I present to your attention the book “Linux API. A comprehensive guide" (translation of the book The Linux Programming Interface). You can order it on the publisher's website, and if you use the promotional code LinuxAPI, you will receive a 30% discount. Excerpt from the book for reference: Sockets: Server Architecture In this chapter, we will discuss the basics of designing iterative and parallel servers, and also look at a special daemon […]
All smartphones and tablets produced after January 1 and sold in Russia must be pre-installed with 16 domestic applications, three on computers, and four on Smart TVs. This requirement was approved by the Russian government. The published document states that from January 1, 2021, manufacturers of smartphones, tablets and other “wireless communications equipment […] will be required to pre-install Russian software.
