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The release of GNU Wget2 2.2.1 is now available, featuring a complete rewrite of the automated recursive content downloading program GNU Wget. Wget2 offers a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows access to available functionality through the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, enables the downloading of only changed data, and can save data with […]
The release of PCSX2 2.6.0 has taken place, which develops the emulator for the PlayStation 2 console. The emulator allows standard PCs to run games originally designed for PlayStation 2, while offering enhanced features such as screen resolution scaling, creating virtual and shared memory cards, saving states, applying patches to games, and recording gameplay videos. CPU emulation […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 26.0, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, has been presented. The distribution is notable for its simplified, user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers. Manjaro is available as live versions with graphical environments KDE (5.4 GB), GNOME (5.2 GB), and Xfce (5.1 GB), formed […]
A summary of the most significant and noteworthy events of 2025 related to open projects and information security: Conflicts: The dispute over the domain putty.org; The conflict between NixOS moderators and the managing council; The intention to exclude Bcachefs from the Linux kernel; Python's withdrawal from the grant; Automattic's departure from WordPress development; A protest by the Japanese Mozilla Support community; The maintainer of libxml2 stepped back from special treatment for removing […]
The release of Firejail 0.9.78 has been published, developing a system for the isolated execution of graphical, console, and server applications, which minimizes the risk of compromising the main system when running untrusted or potentially vulnerable programs. The program is written in C, is distributed under the GPLv2 license, and can run on any Linux distribution with a kernel version higher than 3.0. Ready packages of Firejail have been prepared […]
The release of the Box64 0.4.0 emulator, designed to run Linux programs compiled for the x86_64 architecture on hardware with ARM64, RISC-V, and Loongarch64 processors, has been published. The project focuses heavily on enabling the launch of gaming applications and provides the ability to run Windows builds through Wine and Proton. The project's source code is written in C and released under the MIT license. A key feature of the project is the use of hybrid […]
In the RustFS project, which develops an S3-compatible distributed object storage system written in Rust, a vulnerability (CVE-2025-68926) has been discovered, resembling a backdoor. The issue is caused by a hardcoded access token in the code that allows connection to a network service via the gRPC protocol by setting the "authorization" header to "rustfs rpc". The token was present in both the server and client code. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level […]
At the 39C3 conference (Chaos Communication Congress), a report was presented with the results of research on the security of the FreeBSD jail mechanism. The authors of the study managed to escape the Jail and compromise the host, provided that the attacker has root privileges inside the Jail. Code for 5 prototype exploits that utilize vulnerabilities in ipfilter, dummynet, carp, and ipfw to escape from the Jail has been published on GitHub, revealing […]
The release of the MenuetOS 1.70 operating system has been published, with kernel development being conducted entirely in assembly. MenuetOS builds are prepared for 64-bit x86 systems and can be run under QEMU. The system build takes up 1.4 MB and is provided as a floppy disk image and an ISO image for burning to CD (bootable in VirtualBox). The source code for the Menuet64 project is released under a restrictive […]
The release of Icecast 2.5.0 has been published, a server for organizing audio and video streaming over the network. It supports broadcasting using formats like Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Opus, FLAC, WebM (VP8/VP9), as well as proprietary codecs like MP4 (H.264, MPEG4), M4A, NSV, AAC, and MP3. The code is written in C language and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The platform was created in […]
The fifth experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.94) instant messaging client has been introduced. This release is marked as having an alpha-preliminary quality level, not intended for everyday use. The builds are prepared in Flatpak format and hosted in the beta repository on Flathub. The Pidgin 3 branch has been in development since 2011, following three years of discussion at the concept and ideas level. […]
The release of the Snoop 1.4.3 project has been published, developing a forensic OSINT tool that searches for user accounts in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the presence of a requested username, allowing you to determine which sites have a user with the specified nickname. The project is based on research work in the field of scraping public data […]