The release of Btrfs-Progs 6.13 has been presented, which includes utilities and libraries for working with the Btrfs file system from user space. It contains a summary utility for Btrfs administration, the mkfs.btrfs partition creation utility, the fsck.btrfs partition check program, the btrfstune parameter modification interface, the btrfs-image FS image creation utility, and the libbtrfsutil library. The code is written in C […]
The development of the CADBase platform continues, designed for storing data related to engineering and computer design. The primary task of the platform is to exchange 3D models, drawings, and related information such as accompanying documentation, supplier catalogs, certificates, and standardization and classification documents. The code is written in Rust and distributed under the MIT license. Among the changes: new capabilities added […]
Corrective updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, and 13.19, fixing over 70 bugs and closing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-1094), which in late December was utilized in attacks on BeyondTrust and the U.S. Department of Treasury. The issue in PostgreSQL was identified while analyzing a remote vulnerability (CVE-2024-12356) in BeyondTrust's PRA (Privileged Remote Access) services and BeyondTrust […]
Following Hector Martin's announcement of stepping down as maintainer and ceasing participation in patch reviews, Karol Herbst, who maintained the Nouveau driver and the MMIO tracing mechanism (MMIOTRACE) working at Red Hat, has also announced his withdrawal. After their departure, there will still be two maintainers in the kernel supporting the Nouveau driver, who, according to Karol, are doing an excellent job. In […]
Yazi (Chinese: «鸭子» means «duck») is an incredibly fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking asynchronous input-output. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience. Yazi is distributed under the MIT license. Key features: 🚀 Full support for asynchronicity: all input-output operations are asynchronous, and CPU tasks are distributed across multiple threads, allowing for maximum […]
The new release of the Go language, version 1.24, comes six months after Go 1.23. Most changes affect the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release ensures the promise of compatibility with Go 1. Developers expect that nearly all Go programs will continue to compile and run as before. Changes in Go 1.24 now fully support generic type aliases: alias […]
The developers of the Serpent OS distribution have announced the renaming of the project to AerynOS and a rebranding effort. They plan to complete the migration of the infrastructure to the new name by March 17. It has been noted that the name Serpent OS was chosen hastily at the project's inception, without considering that the word 'serpent' carries negative connotations for some people (the tempted snake, a vengeful person). The developers have received numerous complaints about this unfortunate choice […]
An update has been released for the Chimera Linux distribution, notable for using the Linux kernel along with utilities from FreeBSD, the dinit system manager, and the Musl standard C library. The build is carried out using the Clang compiler. Bootable Live images have been created for the x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, riscv64, and ppc64 architectures, available in variants with GNOME (1.5 GB), KDE (2.1 GB), and a minimal environment (806 MB). The project aims to […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Musl standard C library (CVE-2024-2961), leading to a buffer overflow when converting specially crafted text from EUC-KR encoding to UTF-8 using the iconv() function. The vulnerability manifests starting from Musl version 0.9.13 and will be fixed in the forthcoming release 1.2.6 (a patch should be used until the update is released). The vulnerability was discovered by the maintainer of the libxml2 library during fuzz testing. […]
Hector Martin, the founder of the Asahi Linux project, which focuses on porting Linux to run on Apple Silicon Macs, has announced his resignation as the project lead and the end of development. The members of Asahi Linux have formed a governing council consisting of 7 developers. The council will make decisions collectively and coordinate the project's work together. The reason for the departure […]
After more than 5 years of development and over 800 comments in the discussion of the related merge request (significantly more if you include associated discussions), the color-management-v1 extension of the Wayland protocol for color management and HDR has been included in the main branch of the project. This extension allows Wayland clients to retrieve color properties of displayed data and meet requirements for supporting displays with extended dynamic range […]
An engineer from Google proposed raising the default timer interrupt frequency in the Linux kernel to 1000Hz, which will result in increased task switching frequency and reduced time quantums in the task scheduler. Currently, the default is set to 250Hz as a compromise between performance, latency, and power consumption. When using displays with a refresh rate of 120Hz, typical […]