After three months of development, the release of 25.1 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium, written in C++ using the Qt framework (versions 5 and 6 are supported) and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, has taken place. This release turned out to be the most substantial in the history of the planetarium's development, with a total of 208 changes made between the current and previous versions by 11 contributors. Major […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.14. Among the most notable changes are: the ntsync driver with Windows NT synchronization primitives, read operation balancing settings in Btrfs RAID1, reflink support in XFS in real-time mode, the possibility of uncached buffered I/O, a dmem cgroup for limiting GPU memory, the use of io_uring in FUSE, attribute delegation in NFS, support for […]
After six months of development, version 0.40 of the popular cross-platform open-source media player mpv has been released. Key changes include: improved auto-completion and visual styling in the console; a new selection menu in the GUI displayed when right-clicking screen buttons; HDR is now natively supported when using direct rendering (DRM) as well as dmabuf-wayland in Linux; scripts have been enhanced with […]
The release of version 10 of the platform (p10 Aronia branch), "Alt Virtualization" 10.4 is now available. This build is prepared for x86_64, AArch64, based on kernel 6.1 LTS. Download the image from download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru ftp.altlinux.org In the minor version 10.4, the package base has been updated. More details in the mailing lists: altlinux-announce-ru@ community@ Source: linux.org.ru
On March 19, the release of the C++ library Lug took place, which implements an embedded domain-specific language for expressing parsers in the form of extended syntax expressions grammar, and is distributed under the MIT license. Library features include: A natural syntax reminiscent of external parser generator languages, with support for attributes and semantic actions. The ability to work with context-sensitive grammars with symbol tables, conditions, and syntactic predicates. Generated parsers […]
After two years of development, the release of the cross-platform terminal emulator mlterm version 3.9.4 has been completed. Change log: Added support for default key combinations Shift+Control+v and Shift+Control+c for copying and pasting text via clipboard. Removed the option -P/—clip/use_clipboard. Added the option —chsel/change_selection_immediately to all supported backends except for xlib and Wayland. Added the command COPY_CLIPBOARD for use in key combinations. Added the ability to search […]
On March 28, after more than a year and a half of development, the releases of 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 of the cross-platform library FTXUI were made, designed for creating C++ applications with a text interface and distributed under the MIT license. Library features include: a functional style similar to React JS; a simple and elegant style (according to the library author); keyboard and mouse event handling; support for UTF8 and Unicode; support for True […]
The number of manufacturers trying their hand at producing solid-state drives has long ceased to be countable. The threshold for entering this market is very low — independent controller developers are ready to take on all the burdens of SSD production if necessary, offering their clients only to handle the distribution of the resulting product. As a result, store shelves are filled with numerous models of SSDs bearing little-known names. […]
Microsoft has announced major changes to its account login system, affecting over one billion users worldwide. The new login method using biometric access keys (passkeys) aims to reduce the risk of phishing and hacks while making authentication more convenient. According to Microsoft's statement, the company has implemented a series of improvements in recent years, including the possibility of fully removing passwords from […]
As everyone knows, the C++ programming language is perhaps the largest in terms of volume among programming languages. Even programmers who have been using it for decades cannot claim to know it fully. Consequently, the C++ standards committee made a tough decision: to keep the language competitive against emerging programming languages like Rust, it is necessary to remove all legacy […]
March 30, 2025 – A significant event has occurred in the world of graphical systems for Linux: the announcement of X12 and its reference implementation, Xero, which are already asserting themselves as serious competitors to the popular Wayland protocol. Developers are confident that their new creation will bring users numerous advantages that will help overcome the shortcomings of the older technology. The X12 protocol page […]
According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, work is currently underway to adapt the userspace part of the popular Windows operating system to a new proprietary hybrid kernel based on the source code of the FreeBSD kernel. Thus, Windows 12 is the last OS from Microsoft to use the morally outdated NT kernel; subsequent releases will feature a new kernel codenamed […]