Cloudflare has introduced the opkssh (OpenPubkey SSH) toolkit, which allows integration of centralized authentication into OpenSSH with login capabilities through OpenID Connect providers. With opkssh, you can eliminate manual management and configuration of SSH keys, and connect to the server from any host without the need to create private keys on each client machine and without manual […]
The release of the LibrePCB 1.3.0 free printed circuit board design package has been announced. LibrePCB is positioned as an intuitive package for quick board development that lags in functionality behind KiCad but is much easier to use, catering not only to beginners but also to professional engineers. The software is available in builds for Linux (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage), FreeBSD, macOS […]
The release of the AerynOS 2025.03 distribution has been presented, which is the first update following the renaming of the Serpent OS project. The distribution uses its own package manager and an atomic system update model. Development is being carried out by the old team of the Solus distribution, which includes Ikey Doherty — the creator of Solus, and Joshua Strobl — the key developer of the Budgie desktop environment. The builds […]
After six months of development, the release of the CRIU 4.1 (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) toolkit has been published, designed to save and restore processes in user space. The toolkit allows saving the state of a single or group of processes, and then resuming work from the saved position, even after a system reboot or on another server without interrupting already established network connections. Code […]
After six months of development, the open-source video player MPV 0.40 has been released, which branched from the code base of the MPlayer2 project in 2013. In MPV, the primary focus is on developing new features, without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1+ license, with some parts remaining under GPLv2, but the transition to LGPL is nearly complete and to disable […]
Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the Kubernetes ingress controller ingress-nginx, allowing attackers to execute their own code on the servers of cloud systems utilizing the Kubernetes platform, and gain full privileged access to the Kubernetes cluster. The issues have been assigned a critical severity level (9.8 out of 10). The researchers who discovered these flaws have assigned the vulnerabilities the code name IngressNightmare and noted that they affect approximately 43% of cloud environments. The vulnerabilities […]
Vladimir Serbinenko, one of the three maintainers of the GRUB2 bootloader, who has contributed more than five thousand changes to the codebase, has brought up for discussion the possibility of writing modules for GRUB2 using the Rust language. Vladimir presented the first results of experiments with adding Rust support into GRUB2 and creating the necessary bindings. Changes have also been prepared for GRUB to use shared libraries ('.so', ET_DYN) for […]
The release of the graphics editor GIMP 3.0.2 has been announced, addressing several issues identified shortly after the publication of the initial GIMP 3.0 release last week. Among other fixes, conflicts with some system themes that led to incorrect interface display have been resolved. The developers have also reverted the patch that improved support for graphics tablets, as it introduced problems […]
The Latin American Free Software Foundation has published a completely free version of the Linux kernel 6.14 — Linux-libre 6.14-gnu, cleaned of firmware elements and drivers containing non-free components or code areas restricted by manufacturers. In Linux-libre, features of the kernel for loading external non-free components not included in the kernel package have been disabled, and mentions of using non-free […]
Starting from March 11, the built-in antivirus package Windows Defender in Windows OS began blocking (quarantining) the free driver WinRing0. The driver is used to access various hardware from user space for which no other API is provided in the system. The WinRing0 driver is in demand in projects that manage hardware settings, both free (OpenRGB, Libre Hardware Monitor, FanControl), as well […]
The composite server Hyprland 0.48 is now available, utilizing the Wayland protocol. The project is oriented towards tiling window management but also supports traditional freeform window placement, tabbed window grouping, pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen window expansion. It offers capabilities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window borders, background blur, animation effects, and shadows. Additional functionality can be added […]
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 […]