An update for the Linux distribution "ALT Workstation K 11.0" is available, featuring a KDE desktop environment aimed at office and home use. The build is prepared for the x86_64 architecture and is based on the ALT 11 platform. An installation ISO image (8 GB) and a separate Live build (5 GB) have been created for download. The downloaded version can only be used freely by individuals, in accordance with the […]
Oracle has introduced Solaris 11.4.81 CBE (Common Build Environment), a variant of the Solaris 11.4 operating system designed for open-source software developers and personal use. CBE simplifies access to current software versions and updates for those wishing to use Solaris for free. This is the second release in the CBE series — the first was published in 2022. Unlike […]
A group of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has discovered several new vulnerabilities of the Spectre-v2 class, published under the codename Training Solo, which allow bypassing memory isolation mechanisms. In the context of virtualization systems, these vulnerabilities enable determining the memory content of the host environment from guest systems, and in the context of servers — to ascertain the kernel memory content while executing an exploit in user space. Examples of exploits […]
In the GNU screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) providing a multi-window interface in the console, 5 vulnerabilities have been identified. The most critical issue (CVE-2025-23395) allows obtaining root privileges in the system. The fix is included in today's release of screen 5.0.1. The CVE-2025-23395 vulnerability occurs only in the screen 5.0.0 branch, which is provided in Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Alpine. In Debian, […]
The Guix project, which develops the eponymous package manager and GNU/Linux distribution based on it, has announced the transfer of Git repositories from GNU Savannah to the Git hosting platform Codeberg, which utilizes the Forgejo collaborative development platform (a fork of Gitea). The systems for reviewing patches and tracking bug reports, which have previously relied on email submissions, will also be moved to Codeberg. All Git repositories of the project will be transferred […]
The Dropbear project has released version 2025.88, which develops the SSH server and client used in wireless routers and compact distributions like OpenWrt. The new version addresses a vulnerability (CVE-2025-47203) in the SSH client implementation (dbclient), which allows shell commands to be executed when handling specially formatted hostnames. The vulnerability is caused by a lack of escaping special characters in hostnames and the use of a command interpreter when launching commands […]
The Planka project, which offers a self-hosted Kanban board service for team collaboration and task tracking, has transitioned to a non-free license. Initially, the project used the Expat/MIT license, switched to the AGPLv3 license in 2023, and has now adopted the non-free "Fair Use License," based on the "Sustainable Use License." The license change was made in the second release candidate of Planka 2.0, […]
The release of the command-line news feed reader Newsraft 0.30 has occurred, supporting RSS and Atom formats. Newsraft is designed to aggregate content from various blogs and platforms and view it through a single interface built on the ncurses library. The project is inspired by the Newsboat application but is an independent development, presented as a lightweight alternative. The aim of the project is to provide the most […]
The non-profit organization OpenSearch Software Foundation, controlled by the Linux Foundation, has released version 3.0 of the OpenSearch project, which develops a fork of the Elasticsearch data search, analysis, and storage platform and the Kibana web interface. Companies like Amazon, SAP, Uber, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, and NetAp are participating in the development of the fork. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The fork was created in 2021 as a […]
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have introduced a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution 2025-05-06 (Raspbian), based on the Debian 12 package base and Linux kernel 6.12. Approximately 35,000 packages are available in the repository. The desktop environment is based on the composite server labwc, utilizing the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds have been prepared for download—a minimal build (494 MB) for server […]
The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151054 distribution has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues to advance the kernel, networking stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and a basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and the tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used to build scalable web systems, virtualization […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 has been published, designed for fast disk cloning, which copies only the used blocks. The tasks performed by this distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 484MB (amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast in its operation. Booting from […]