The Tor project developers have released Arti 1.4.0, a Tor client implementation written in Rust. The 1.x branch is marked as suitable for use by regular users and provides the same level of privacy, usability, and stability as the main implementation in C. Achieving parity with the C language client is planned for the 2.0 branch. When the Rust code reaches the level of […]
A new version of the Min browser 1.34 has been released, offering a minimalist interface focused on address bar interactions. The browser is built using the Electron platform, which allows for the creation of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds have been created for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.1 has been made. Since the release of 10.0, 35 bug reports have been closed, and 342 changes have been made. It is worth noting that starting from the 2.x branch, the Wine project has switched to a versioning scheme where each stable release increases the first digit in the version number (9.0.0, 10.0.0), while updates to […]
The release of the standard C library PicoLibc 1.8.9 has been published, developed by Keith Packard (leader of the X.Org project) for use on embedded devices with limited persistent storage and RAM. During development, part of the code was borrowed from the newlib library from the Cygwin project and AVR Libc, which was developed for Atmel AVR microcontrollers. The PicoLibc code is distributed under the BSD license. The library build is supported […]
The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 8.3 has been published, featuring a server for online editors of ONLYOFFICE and enabling collaborative work. The editors can be used for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project code is distributed under the free AGPLv3 license. Simultaneously, the release of ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 8.3, built on a unified codebase with the online editors, has been formed. The desktop editors are designed as desktop applications, […]
Christoph Hellwig, maintainer of the DMA subsystem, KVM, Slab Allocator, and PowerPC architecture in the Linux kernel, who was once part of the governing technical committee of the Linux Foundation and served as a plaintiff in a GPL-related lawsuit against VMware, has refused to acknowledge patches related to supporting driver development in Rust. The proposed patches added wrappers over several […]
On February 6, 2025, the Tails development team announced the release of a new version of its privacy-focused distribution, Tails 6.12. This version addresses critical security vulnerabilities and includes new functional updates. It should be noted that the distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux, designed for installation on a flash drive, includes tools to ensure digital security, and is aimed at […]
On February 5, after almost two months of development, version 8.12.0 of the console utility and library curl, written in C and distributed under the curl license, was released. Key changes include: Fixing the CVE-2025-0167 vulnerability – when using a .netrc file, there was a possibility of passing the password used for the first host to the next host. Fixing the CVE-2025-0665 vulnerability – in the libcurl library when closing a connection channel […]
After six years of work on the project, Google announced the start of production of a chip built on the open platform OpenTitan. The chip is produced by Nuvoton and is noted as the first implementation of OpenTitan ready for use in real-world projects. A trial batch has been released for testing, and mass production is scheduled to start in the spring of this year. OpenTitan represents […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.12 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), developed as part of the Tor project, has been announced. The distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is intended for anonymous web browsing using Tor tools. By default, all connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter. User data is stored […]
After more than six months of development, version 10.45 of the PCRE2 library, compatible with PERL regular expressions, written in C and distributed under the BSD license, has been released. This is a relatively large release that includes new features, several bug fixes, and a few changes that have a minor impact on backward compatibility. Version 10.45 is the first release prepared by the new maintainers of the project, who thank Philip […]
The Arch Linux developers announced the agreement with Microsoft to publish official builds for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). These builds will be included in the list of Linux distributions available for quick installation in WSL through the WSL repository (to install Arch, it is enough to run the command "wsl --install ArchLinux"). Since Arch Linux operates under a rolling release model, the builds […]