A major release of libtorrent 2.0 (also known as libtorrent-rasterbar) has been introduced, offering a memory- and CPU-efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The library is used in such torrent clients as Deluge, qBittorrent, Folx, Lince, Miro and Flush (not to be confused with the other libtorrent library, which is used in rTorrent). The libtorrent code is written in C++ and distributed […]
On October 23, the 50th release 0.5.0 of the free, BSD-licensed, real-time OS for embedded systems Embox took place: Changes: Added the ability to separate threads and tasks Added the ability to set the task stack size Improved support for STM32 (added support for the f1 series, cleaned up the series f3, f4, f7, l4) Improved operation of the ttyS subsystem Added support for NETLINK sockets Simplified DNS setup […]
GDB is a source code debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust and many other programming languages. GDB supports debugging on more than a dozen different architectures and can run on the most popular software platforms (GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows). GDB 10.1 includes the following changes and improvements: BPF debugging support (bpf-unknown-none) GDBserver now supports the following […]
This release included 36 bug fixes, including mouse cursor bugs and wine crashing when running on FreeBSD 12.1. New in this release: Additional work has been done to implement the DSS of the crypto provider. Several fixes for windowless RichEdit. FLS callback support. Added window resizing in the new console implementation Various bug fixes. Sources can be downloaded from [...]
At the request of the RIAA, the main source repository of youtube-dl and all its forks on github.com have been blocked. All links to downloads and documentation from the site https://youtube-dl.org show a 404 error, but the page on pypi.org (packages for pip that require Python installation) is still working. youtube-dl is a popular open-free program for downloading video and audio files from a number of popular sites: […]
Google has added a new experimental flag (chrome://flags#ntp-shopping-tasks-module) to the test builds of Chrome Canary that will form the basis for the release of Chrome 88, which enables the display of a module with advertising on the page shown when opening a new tab. Advertising is shown based on user activity in Google services. For example, if a user had previously searched for information related to chairs in the Google search engine, then […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which develops protocols and architecture for the Internet, published RFC 8905 describing a new resource identifier (URI) “payto:”, designed to organize access to payment systems. The RFC received the status of a “Proposed Standard”, after which work will begin to give the RFC the status of a draft standard (Draft Standard), which actually means full stabilization of the protocol and taking into account all […]
The final version of the Odin 2 software synthesizer for Linux has been released in VST3 and LV2 versions. The source code is available under GPLv3+ on GitHub. Features: 24 voices; 3 OSC, 3 filters, separate distortion, 4 FX, 4 ADSR envelopes, 4 LFO; modulation matrix; arpeggiator; step sequencer; XY-Pad for combining modulation sources; scalable interface. PDF documentation available. Source: […]
Keith Packard, an active Debian developer, leader of the X.Org project and creator of many X extensions including XRender, XComposite and XRandR, has published the release of the standard C library PicoLibc 1.4.7, developed for use on size-constrained embedded devices permanent storage and RAM. During development, part of the code was borrowed from the newlib library from the Cygwin and AVR Libc project, developed for […]
A release of the Ubuntu 20.10 “Groovy Gorilla” distribution is available, which is classified as an intermediate release, updates for which are generated within 9 months (support will be provided until July 2021). Ready-made test images were created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu and UbuntuKylin (Chinese edition). Main changes: Application versions have been updated. Worker […]
The XFS implementation in kernel 5.10 will solve the 2038 to 2486 problem by implementing "big dates". Now the date of the file cannot be greater than 2038, which, of course, is not tomorrow, but not in 50 years. The change postpones the problem for 4 centuries, which is acceptable at the current level of technology development. Source: linux.org.ru
The Debian Project is pleased to announce a donation of US$10 to help Framasoft achieve the fourth goal of the Peertube v000 crowdfunding campaign - Live Streaming. This year, Debian's annual conference, DebConf3, was held online, and as a resounding success, it made it clear to the project that we need to have a permanent streaming infrastructure for smaller events, […]
