Author: ProHoster

Release of SBCL 2.4.2, an implementation of the Common Lisp language

The release of SBCL 2.4.2 (Steel Bank Common Lisp), a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language, has been published. The project code is written in Common Lisp and C languages, and is distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: Compilation by the system itself on x86-64 systems with Linux now produces bit-identical cross-compiled fasls where the build host is cmucl, ccl, clisp or sbcl itself. […]

Release of the Tcl programming language 8.6.14

After 15 months of development, Tcl/Tk 8.6.14, a dynamic programming language distributed with a cross-platform library of basic GUI elements, has been released. Tcl is widely used as a platform for creating user interfaces and as an embedded language, but Tcl is also suitable for rapid prototyping, web development, network application creation, system administration and testing. The project code is distributed under the license [...]

Release of the mobile platform /e/OS 1.20, developed by the creator of Mandrake Linux

The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 1.20, aimed at maintaining the confidentiality of user data, has been presented. The platform was founded by Gaël Duval, creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project provides firmware for many popular smartphone models, and also under the Murena One, Murena Fairphone 3+/4 and Murena Teracube 2e brands offers editions of the OnePlus One, Fairphone 3+/4 and Teracube 2e smartphones with pre-installed […]

Release of the Vivaldi 6.6 browser for desktops

The Vivaldi 6.6 browser for desktops has been released. This is the first stable release in 2024 and includes several notable changes. In particular, the developers added support for extensions in web panels, and also made navigation within web panels possible. In addition, extension developers can now create their own extensions, including for browser web panels, thanks to the extension API […]

Ejabberd 24.02

On February 27, a new version of the popular ejabberd messaging server was released. Ejabberd supports XMPP and MQTT protocols and is written in the Erlang programming language. The main innovation in this release is the previously announced support for federation with servers using the Matrix protocol. This way, users of Ejabberd servers will be able to transparently exchange messages with Matrix users in the same way as with other users […]

Microsoft proposed IPE access control system for the Linux kernel

The company put up for discussion on the Linux kernel developer mailing list the code for an LSM module with an implementation of the IPE (Integrity Policy Enforcement) mechanism, which expands existing mandatory access control systems. Instead of binding to labels and paths in IPE, the decision to allow or deny an operation is made based on the persistent properties of the system component on which the operation is performed. The module allows you to define a general policy [...]

Vivaldi 6.6 browser release

The release of the proprietary browser Vivaldi 6.6, developed based on the Chromium engine, has been published. Vivaldi builds are prepared for Linux, Windows and macOS. Changes made to the Chromium code base are distributed under an open license by the project. The browser interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, the Node.js platform, Browserify and various ready-made NPM modules. The implementation of the interface is available in the source code, but [...]

Malicious AI models executing code were identified in the Hugging Face repository

Researchers from JFrog have identified malicious machine learning models in the Hugging Face repository, the installation of which can lead to the execution of attacker code to gain control of the user's system. The problem is caused by the fact that some model distribution formats allow executable code to be embedded, for example, models using the "pickle" format may include serialized Python objects as well as code that is executed […]