Category: Blog

Suricata 8.0 attack detection system available

After two years of development, the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) has released the Suricata 8.0 network intrusion detection and prevention system, which provides tools for inspecting various types of traffic. Suricata configurations allow the use of the signature database developed by the Snort project, as well as the Emerging Threats and Emerging Threats Pro rule sets. The project's source code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The main […]

TikTok Releases TikTokSans Font Under Open OFL License

ByteDance has introduced the TikTokSans font, optimized for displaying mobile interfaces on high-density screens and creating video subtitles (the font is already used by default when displaying subtitles in videos posted on the TikTok service). TikTokSans is also well suited for use on the Web and in user interfaces. The source components of the font are open under the OFL 1.1 license […]

Red Hat Introduces Free RHEL Option for Enterprise Application Development

Red Hat has announced the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers initiative, which allows businesses to download and use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for free for application development and testing. Each Red Hat Developer program member is allowed to use up to 25 copies of the distribution for free. The initiative expands on the previously existing Red Hat Developer program, which allows free use […]

Release of miracle-wm 0.6, a compositing manager based on Wayland and Mir

Matthew Kosarek, a developer from Canonical, has released the miracle-wm 0.6 compositing manager, which uses the Wayland protocol and Mir compositing manager components. Miracle-wm supports tiling of windows, similar to the i3 and Sway projects. Waybar can be used as a panel. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. […]

TSA attack leaks information from AMD CPU microarchitectural structures

AMD has disclosed a new class of microarchitectural attacks on its processors, the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA). The attack allows an attacker to bypass CPU isolation mechanisms and determine data processed in other contexts, such as from user space to determine information processed at the kernel level, or from a guest to learn data used in another guest. The vulnerabilities were discovered during […]

Amarok music player 3.3 released

After six months of development, the Amarok 3.3.0 music player, which was very popular during the times of KDE 3 and KDE 4, has been released. After the release of KDE 5, the project was abandoned, but this year it was revived and ported to Qt5/Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 5/6 libraries. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]

Git vulnerabilities that allow code execution when accessing an external repository

Corrective releases of the distributed source code management system Git 2.43.7, 2.44.4, 2.45.4, 2.46.4, 2.47.3, 2.48.2, 2.49.1, and 2.50.1 have been published, which fix vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to execute custom code on a user’s system when cloning a repository controlled by an attacker. CVE-2025-48384 — the vulnerability is caused by the fact that when reading the values ​​of configuration parameters, Git cleans up trailing newline characters […]

Thunderbird 140 mail client release

Thunderbird 140, a community-driven email client based on Mozilla technology, is now available. Thunderbird 140 is built on the ESR codebase of Firefox 140 and is categorized as a long-term support version, with updates released throughout the year. Key changes in Thunderbird 140: Improved dark mode implementation. The Dark […]

Ardour has dropped support for building with GTK2 in favor of a fork of YTK

The developers of the Ardour sound editor have removed support for building with the GTK2 library from the codebase, leaving only the ability to use YTK. YTK is a fork of GTK2 created by the Ardour project in February 2024. The reason for stopping building with GTK2 is the addition of additional functionality to YTK, providing support for touch input devices and the ability to render on the […]

OBS Studio 31.1 Live Streaming Release

After six months of development, OBS Studio 31.1, a package for streaming, compositing and recording video, has been released. The code is written in C/C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are available for Linux (flatpak), Windows and macOS. The goal of OBS Studio was to create a portable version of the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Classic) application, not tied to the Windows platform, supporting OpenGL […]

AlmaLinux Updates ELevate, a Toolkit for Migrating Between RHEL Clone Branches

The developers of the AlmaLinux distribution have introduced a new version of the ELevate toolkit, which simplifies migration between major releases of distributions based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux package base, while preserving applications, data, and settings. The project supports migration between major branches of AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and CentOS Stream. The migration uses the Leapp utility developed by Red Hat, which is supplemented with patches that take into account the specifics of CentOS […]

Tomorrow's Windows Server update will break Samba compatibility

Samba 4.22.3 and 4.21.7 unscheduled updates have been released to address an issue with Samba servers not being compatible with tomorrow's Windows Server update. If the proposed patches are not installed, Samba servers will not be able to function as members of Windows Active Directory domains if the 'ad' backend is enabled in the user ID mapping settings. Microsoft has scheduled the […]