A vulnerability (CVE-2025-5278) has been identified in the sort utility included with the GNU Coreutils package, which leads to out-of-bounds data access when sorting using the syntax ‘+POS1[.C1][OPTS]’ used for selecting sort keys from processed data. This problem is caused by an integer wraparound in the begfield() function, allowing the reading of one byte of data outside of the buffer. The vulnerability can be exploited to call […]
KaOS 2025.05 has been released, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications using Qt. Among the specific design features, the vertical panel placed on the right side of the screen can be noted. The distribution is developed with a focus on Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, and also offers […]
The release of the Thunderbird 139.0 email client, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies, is now available. Thunderbird 139 is built on the Firefox 139 codebase and is categorized as an intermediate version, with updates released until the next version. In the long-term support ESR branch, updates will be released for a year, culminating in Thunderbird 128.11.0. Key changes in Thunderbird: […]
The release of Automake 1.18 has been announced, a utility for automatically generating makefiles compliant with the GNU coding standards. In this new version: Support for the Algol 68 programming language has been added, utilizing the GNU Algol 68 compiler. By default, it has transitioned to the ustar tar archive format, which supports longer filenames. Support for obtaining the date via the environment variable has been added in the mdate-sh script used during Texinfo assembly […]
A year after the significant last branch formation, Oracle has presented the first beta release of the VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization system. The release is expected in summer. Beta builds of VirtualBox 7.2 are prepared for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36/40, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Key changes: In the graphical […]
The release of AlmaLinux 10.0 has been presented, synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (864 MB), minimal (1.4 GB), and full images (7.3 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, and […]
The release of web browser Firefox 139 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.24.0 and 128.11.0 — have been formed. The Firefox 140 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for June 24. Key innovations in Firefox 139: The ability to set a custom background image or choose a background color for the page displayed when opening a new tab has been added. This function is still […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 25.5 has been published, providing a compact operating environment for single-board computers with processors based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. The builds were formed […]
The Khronos consortium, responsible for developing graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open driver PanVK with the Vulkan 1.2 specification. PanVK provides support for the Vulkan graphics API on ARM GPU devices based on the V10 architecture, such as Mali-G610 and Mali-G310. The driver has successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. The obtaining of […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has presented the release of Linux kernel 6.15. Among the most notable changes are: audit mechanism in Landlock, memory mapping lock mode, fwctl subsystem, Nova driver for NVIDIA GPU, implementation of a host system for the Hyper-V hypervisor, support for zoned storage devices in XFS, optimization of the network subsystem, scrub verification in Bcachefs, and the ability to control operations via io_uring. In the new […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-37899) has been discovered in the ksmbd module, which offers a built-in Linux kernel implementation of a file server based on the SMB protocol, potentially allowing for code execution at the kernel level through the sending of specially crafted packets. Notably, the issue was identified during code analysis by the OpenAI o3 AI model. Since the full code of the ksmbd module exceeds the allowable size for the model […]
ALT Linux developers have introduced a new configurator for GNOME — Tuner, aimed at simplifying the extension of functionality and providing additional settings. It is expected that Tuner can be used by distributions shipping GNOME to create configurators responsible for changing distribution-specific settings. For example, ALT Linux has implemented the TunerPanel plugin, allowing to switch between panel modes (in the style of GNOME 2) and standard modes […]