NVIDIA has announced the release of the PhysX 5.6 physics simulation engine and the related PhysX SDK toolkit. At the same time, a new version of the fluid modeling library Flow 2.2.0 is now available. The project's code is distributed under the BSD-3 license and supports Linux, macOS, iOS, Windows, and Android platforms. Although the PhysX SDK has been released with source code since 2018 […]
The release of CoreBoot 25.03 has been announced, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 1,001 changes. A total of 131 developers participated in preparing the release. Key changes: Support for motherboards ASROCK Z87 Extreme3, Z87 Extreme4, Z87M Extreme4, and Z87 Pro4 has been implemented. ASUS P8H67-I DELUXE HP Pro 3400 Intel […]
The release of the APT (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit 3.0.0 has been finalized, incorporating changes that accumulated in the experimental branch 2.9. The new release has been accepted into the Debian Unstable branch and will soon be integrated into the Debian Testing repository, which is currently developing Debian 13 and already uses the experimental branch APT 2.9, and will also be added to the package […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.5 — has been published. Since the release of 10.4, 22 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: In WineD3D support for accelerated decoding of H.264 video using the Vulkan graphics API has been implemented. The Bluetooth driver has added the ability to pair devices. The Wine Mono engine has been updated to […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.14.1 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced, developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on Debian 12, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is intended for anonymous browsing using the Tor toolkit. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. For storing user data, […]
The third release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment has been introduced, built from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine some innovative ideas that have not been seen before in user interfaces with traditional elements such as a panel, menu, and icon placement on the desktop. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPL license. Features of Orbitiny Desktop: Panel, […]
The code of the openHalo toolkit has been published, providing a layer to simplify the migration of applications originally written for MySQL to use PostgreSQL databases. The project is implemented as a proxy, transparently translating MySQL queries into PostgreSQL queries and performing reverse transformation for responses. The project is written in C and distributed under the GPLv3 license. SQL dialect and communication protocol support is provided in openHalo […]
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Microsoft, registered on April 4, 1975, Bill Gates published the source code of the Altair BASIC interpreter. Altair BASIC was released for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputers and became the first product of Microsoft. The interpreter takes up less than 4 KB and can run on systems with 4 KB of RAM. Bill Gates and Paul […]
The release of XZ Utils 5.8.1 has been published, which includes the liblzma library and utilities for working with compressed data in the '.xz' format. XZ Utils 5.8.1 is the first significant release after the incident involving the discovery of a backdoor that facilitated access through sshd. Last week, a tag for 5.8.0 was created in Git, but the release was not officially announced due to issues found after the tag was published […]
The readiness for mass use of the open project Nelm, positioned as an 'alternative to Helm 3', has been announced. Nelm originated during the development of the CI/CD utility werf as a fork of Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes that uses 'charts' to deploy applications in K8s. The Nelm code is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. This fork addresses several long-standing issues in Helm, […]
The general-purpose programming language Rust 1.86 has been released, initiated by Mozilla but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory usage and provides means for achieving high task execution parallelism while avoiding the use of garbage collection and runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and support of the standard library). […]
Hyprland has turned 3 years old! Over these years, it has reached version 0.48.0. Contrary to popular belief, Hyprland is a hybrid compositor, meaning it can operate not only in tiling mode—it can be configured so that all windows are floating by default. This release includes many bug fixes and improvements. In the new version: Changes breaking backward compatibility: removed opengl:force_introspection and […]