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The release of Devuan 6.1 'Excalibur', a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, has been announced, delivered without the system manager systemd. Live builds are prepared with the Xfce desktop environment (1.7 GB and 879 MB) and installation iso images (4.2 GB, 593 MB) for the amd64 architecture. Packages are built for i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64, ppc64el, and riscv64 architectures. Images for ARM systems and […]
The lightweight window manager IceWM 4.0.0 is now available. IceWM provides full management through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars, and application menus; it supports tabbed window grouping. The window manager is configured through a simple configuration file, and theme support is available. It supports window grouping in the form of tabs. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic. […]
The shadow-utils toolkit 4.19.0 is now available, including utilities for managing user and group credentials, as well as storing passwords in a separate file /etc/shadow, accessible only to the root user and the shadow group. Included utilities are useradd, userdel, usermod, pwconv, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, pwunconv, pwck, lastlog, su, and login. The toolkit code is written in C and is distributed […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the ncurses library 6.6 has been presented, designed for creating cross-platform interactive console user interfaces and supporting emulation of the curses API from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). The ncurses 6.6 release is source-level compatible with the ncurses 5.x and 6.x branches but expands the ABI. Notable applications built using ncurses include […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.23 internet application suite has been published, bringing together a web browser, an email client, a NNTP conference client, a news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer into one product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client ChatZilla, the DOM Inspector web developer tools, and the calendar scheduler Lightning. This new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
The standard support period for the last edition of the HP-UX UNIX system, produced by Hewlett-Packard for PA-RISC (HP 9000) and Intel Itanium (HPE Integrity) architecture hardware, has expired. The standard support for the HP-UX 11i v3 OS branch, released in February 2007, ended for HPE Integrity servers on December 31, 2025 (standard support for HP 9000 servers ended in 2021). […]
The release of SDL 3.4.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has been introduced. The library aims to simplify the development of games and multimedia applications, offering capabilities such as hardware-accelerated output of 2D and 3D graphics, input handling, sound playback, and 3D output via OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Metal, Direct3D, or Vulkan. The code is written in C and is distributed under the Zlib license. Bindings are provided for […]
The release of the portable edition of the OpenBGPD routing package 9.0 has been introduced, developed by the OpenBSD project team and adapted for use on FreeBSD and Linux (support for Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu is claimed). To ensure portability, code portions from the OpenNTPD, OpenSSH, and LibreSSL projects have been utilized. The project supports most BGP 4 specifications and complies with the requirements of RFC8212, but does not attempt to cover everything […]
The release of the Lustre 2.17 clustered file system has been published, which is used in most of the largest Linux clusters containing tens of thousands of nodes. The key components of Lustre include metadata servers (MDS), management servers (MGS), object storage servers (OSS), object storage (OST, supports operation over ext4 and ZFS), and clients. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key innovations include: Engaged by […]
Daniel Stenberg, the author of the curl utility for sending and receiving data over the network, announced the discontinuation of the strcpy() function in the project's codebase and the prohibition of its use in the future. This decision continues last year's resolution to abandon the use of the strncpy() function, which copies a specified number of bytes from an input string. The use of strncpy() posed a risk of […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-68615) has been identified in the Net-SNMP package, which implements SNMP v1, SNMP v2c, and SNMP v3 protocols. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution on servers using the snmptrapd service to receive and process trap messages from devices. By default, the service listens on UDP port 162 and runs with root privileges. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level (9.8 out of 10). An attack could […]
The U-boot project, which develops a bootloader for embedded devices, has joined the non-profit organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This organization is dedicated to accumulating and redistributing sponsorship funds, as well as providing legal protection for free projects. SFC allows participants to focus on the development process while handling fundraising responsibilities. SFC also becomes the owner of the project's assets, relieving developers of personal […]