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GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 System Manager Released

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The GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 system manager (former dmd) has been introduced, combining the capabilities of an initialization system and a toolkit for managing system services. It is noted that the assignment of the number 1.0 after 21 years of development marked the recognition of the project's readiness and its compliance with the requirements for the functionality of modern initialization systems and service managers. The project is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System distribution as an alternative to the initialization system […]

The Cloudberry project, developing a fork of the Greenplum DBMS, has been accepted into the Apache incubator

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The Apache Software Foundation has adopted the Cloudberry project, a fork of the Greenplum distributed DBMS, which was closed sourced after VMware was acquired by Broadcom. Cloudberry was created by the original Greenplum developers and is based on the latest open source version of Greenplum. After the fork, the project was adapted to use the latest PostgreSQL releases and supplemented […]

Firefox port accepted into official Haiku OS repository

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The Haiku OS development team has prepared and accepted the first public port of the Mozilla Firefox browser for publication. The joint efforts during the preparation of the port included changes to both the base system and other ports used, such as the Wayland layer for Haiku prepared by the developer x512. Due to the lack of response from Mozilla, which prohibits the use of its […]

Raspberry Pi 500 All-in-One PC and Raspberry Pi Monitor Introduced

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The Raspberry Pi project has introduced two new products: the compact Raspberry Pi 500 personal computer, designed as a monoblock with an integrated keyboard, and the 15.6-inch Raspberry Pi Monitor. When combined, the devices make it possible to obtain a full-fledged personal computer based on Raspberry Pi 5 technologies. The declared cost of the monoblock is $90, and the monitor is $100. The Raspberry Pi 500 is based […]

Let's Encrypt Drops OCSP Support for Checking Revoked Certificates

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Let's Encrypt, a non-profit community-controlled certificate authority that provides free certificates to anyone, has decided to stop supporting the OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) protocol used to check for certificate revocation. Instead of the OCSP protocol, it is proposed to use the lists of revoked certificates (CRL - Certificate Revocation List), published by the Let's Encrypt service starting in 2022. On May 7, 2025, Let's Encrypt […]

The fourth alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment

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System76, the company that develops the Linux distribution Pop!_OS, has released the fourth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC, built on top of alpha builds of the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution for systems with NVIDIA (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB) GPUs, are available for testing. Also […]

Linus Torvalds criticizes attempts to tie to x86_64 microarchitecture versions

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In response to a patch for the Linux kernel that supported compiler switches that specified the "version" of the x86_64 microarchitecture (microarchitecture level), Linus Torvalds voiced some fairly harsh and technically sound criticism of the initiative. Versions are the microarchitecture state slices mentioned by AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE that cover specific sets of extensions, for example, x86-64-v3 implies the presence of AVX, AVX2, […]

Vulnerabilities that allow image substitution and code execution on ASU servers of the OpenWrt project

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Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-54143) have been identified in the ASU (Attended SysUpgrade) toolkit developed by the OpenWrt project, allowing one to compromise build artifacts distributed via the sysupgrade.openwrt.org service or third-party ASU servers, and achieve the installation of firmware images modified by an attacker on systems of users who use the "attended upgrade" mode to update firmware via the selector.openwrt.org web interface or the attended.sysupgrade command line toolkit. To successfully carry out an attack, an attacker only needs to send […]

Microsoft has published the Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 distribution

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Microsoft has published an update to the Azure Linux distribution 3.0.20241203. The distribution is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project's own developments are distributed under the MIT license. Package builds are generated for the aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The size of the installation image is 750 MB. Among the changes in the new version: The iptables packet filter has been translated […]

Manjaro Linux 24.2 distribution release

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The release of the Manjaro Linux 24.2 distribution, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginners, has been published. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection and installation of the drivers required for its operation. Manjaro is supplied as live builds with the KDE (3.9 GB), GNOME (3.8 GB) and Xfce (3.5 GB) graphical environments, formed […]

GitHub Actions Handler Bug Led to Malicious Ultralytics Releases

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Attackers were able to execute code with the GitHub Actions handler in a repository for the Ultralytics Python library, which is used to solve computer vision problems such as object detection and image segmentation. After gaining access to the repository, the attackers published several new Ultralytics releases to PyPI, which included malicious changes for cryptocurrency mining. Over the past month, the Ultralytics library has been downloaded […]

OBS Studio 31.0 Live Streaming Release

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OBS Studio 31.0, a suite for streaming, compositing, and recording video, has been released. The significant version change is due to the transition to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH semantic versioning scheme, in which the first digit of the version changes for releases with changes that break compatibility, the second for releases with functional changes that maintain full compatibility with previous releases, and the third for corrective updates with […]

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