Author: Yuri Gagarin

NetworkManager 1.52.0

The release of the network configuration utility NetworkManager 1.52.0 has taken place. The main changes compared to version 1.50.0 include: The command history in nmcli will now be stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/nmcli-history instead of the previously used ~/.nmcli-history. A new parameter ipv4.link-local=fallback has been added, which assigns an IPv4 address to the internal network interface when no other address is specified. Support for building with Autotools has been removed. IPVLAN network interface support has been introduced. Support for […]

Firefox 136.0.1 Update. Expiration of the add-ons signature in older versions of Firefox

A corrective release of Firefox 136.0.1 is available, which fixes the issue with incorrect cookie size limitations (the maximum size was set to 1024 bytes instead of 4096), leading to crashes on websites using the CookieStore API for cookie management. Additionally, a bug was fixed that prevented the Ctrl+L key combination from focusing on the address bar in new windows. Mozilla has warned about […]

Release of CrossOver 25.0 for Linux and macOS

After a year of development, CodeWeavers has released Crossover 25.0, based on Wine code and intended for running programs and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is one of the key participants in the Wine project, sponsors its development, and contributes all innovations made for its commercial products back to the project. The source code for the open components of CrossOver 25.0 can be downloaded […]

Lexilla 5.4.3, Scintilla 5.5.5, SciTE 5.5.5

On February 25, after two months of development, releases 5.4.3 and 5.5.5 of the cross-platform libraries Lexilla and Scintilla, respectively, have been made, along with the release of version 5.5.5 of their based text editor SciTE. Changes: Lexilla Fixed the incorrect computation of != in preprocessor conditions. The use of digits in uppercase identifiers for the Modula-3 language has been allowed. A bug in parsing assembly inserts for Pascal language has been corrected. […]

The fish 4.0 shell has been released, rewritten in Rust

The release of the friendly interactive shell fish 4.0.0 has occurred, aimed at creating a more user-friendly alternative to bash and zsh. Fish supports features such as syntax highlighting with automatic detection of input errors, suggestions for possible input based on past operation history, autocompletion of options and commands using their descriptions in man pages, comfortable operation from […]

The release of the Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.2 distribution

Proxmox, a company known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has announced the release of Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.2. This version is presented as a ready-made solution for quickly establishing a system to monitor email traffic and protect internal email servers. The ISO installation image is available for free download. Components specific to the distribution are open under the AGPLv3 license. For installation updates […]

Fish Shell 4.0

The Fish Shell command-line interface, popular among terminal users, has been updated to version 4.0, bringing significant changes and improvements. The main innovation is that Fish Shell has been completely rewritten in the Rust programming language. However, for regular users, this transition will be nearly imperceptible: commands, settings, and typical interactions will remain the same. Other significant changes include a new system […]

Release of proprietary NVIDIA driver 570.124

NVIDIA has released a stable version of its new proprietary driver branch, NVIDIA 570.124. The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64), and Solaris (x86_64). NVIDIA 570.x has become the ninth stable branch since the company opened components that operate at the kernel level. The source code of the kernel modules nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko (Direct Rendering Manager), nvidia-modeset.ko, and nvidia-uvm.ko (Unified Video Memory) from this new branch […]

In the Linux 6.15 kernel, they intend to remove the SystemV file system.

Developer Jan Kara from SUSE proposed a patch that removes support for Xenix, SystemV/386, and Coherent file systems from the Linux kernel. This code has been marked as orphaned since 2023, with no one stepping up to maintain it since then. Maintainer Christian Brauner, responsible for file systems in the kernel, agreed […]

Yandex has released the language model YandexGPT-5-Lite to the public.

The architecture of the new language model resembles Llama or Qwen, but it has been trained completely from scratch. The similarity allows the use of the same toolkit. The pre-trained version of the large language model YandexGPT 5 Lite has 8 billion parameters with a context length of 32k tokens. Special attention was paid to the Russian language during the model's training, with materials in Russian making up over 70% of the dataset. The senior model YandexGPT 5 […]

The OpenCloud 1.0 file exchange platform is available.

The first release of the OpenCloud platform has been introduced, allowing users to deploy a system for file sharing and collaborative work on content on their own server. The project is presented as an open alternative to proprietary systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Dropbox, complying with GDPR requirements. OpenCloud is a fork of the OCIS (ownCloud Infinite Scale) platform, rewritten from PHP to Go, unlike the original codebase […]

Gifsicle 1.96

After a year-long hiatus, version 1.96 of the Gifsicle console utility has been released. This tool is designed for creating and editing images and animations in the GIF format, as well as for retrieving information about files in this format. The package also includes utilities gifdiff and gifview (for X11) for comparing and viewing GIF files, respectively. The utility is written in C and is distributed […]

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