Internet News Section
The release of the Memtest86+ 8.0 program for testing RAM is now available. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be run directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a bootloader to perform a full check of the RAM. If issues are detected, the built-in Memtest86+ bad memory address map can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas using the memmap option. […]
The Blender Foundation has released version 5.0 of the free 3D modeling software Blender, suitable for addressing various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The LTS branches Blender 4.2 and 4.5 continue to be supported, […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.46 has been published, which contains a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. In the new version: An experimental protocol xx-input-method has been added, allowing applications to implement text input methods for composite servers and generate the entered text, which can be used, for example, for creating virtual keyboards and IME layers […]
The release of the Startwine-Launcher 412 application has been published, developed to run programs and games built for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of the StartWine-Launcher development was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes for beginners — sets of libraries and dependencies required for Windows applications to run on Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]
The release of the MariaDB database management system 12.1.2 has been published, marked as the first stable release of the 12.1 branch. The MariaDB 12.1 branch is classified as a rolling release, continuing the gradual enhancement of functionality and replacing the MariaDB 12.0 branch. Simultaneously, the release of MariaDB 12.2.1 has been issued, which holds the status of a release candidate. The MariaDB 12.1 branch will be maintained until the release of 12.2.2. The MariaDB project is developing a fork […]
The committee overseeing the development of the GCC compiler suite, known as the GCC Steering Committee, has approved the inclusion of the gcc-a68 frontend into the GCC codebase to support the Algol 68 programming language, developed in the late 1960s. After the integration of the frontend, the standard GCC toolchain will be able to compile programs in Algol 68 without the need to install the GNU Algol 68 compiler. In the experimental […]
Rick Byers, one of the technical leads for the team developing Google Chrome, announced the readiness to include a high-performance, memory-safe decoder for the JPEG-XL image format in the Chromium engine. The main criterion for enabling the JPEG-XL decoder by default is the commitment to its long-term support. It is noted that this decision was made in connection with […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have introduced the Agama 18 installer, notable for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama supports the use of various frontends, such as a frontend for installation management via a web interface. Agama has replaced the classic installation interface in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 and openSUSE Leap 16 releases. The code for the installer components is distributed under the GPLv2 license and is written in […]
Collabora has announced progress in the development of the Tyr driver for the Linux kernel, written in Rust. The driver is designed to work with ARM Mali GPUs that utilize the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology, such as the Mali G310, G510, and G710. It is noted that Tyr has reached a level suitable for supporting the GNOME desktop environment and the Weston compositing server […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has released the nDPI 5.0 toolkit for deep packet inspection, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established after an unsuccessful attempt to transfer changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has remained unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for the identification of protocols used in traffic […]
A patch set has been published addressing 6 vulnerabilities in the GRUB2 bootloader, most of which lead to memory access after it has been freed (use-after-free). The potential issues identified could be used to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot verified boot mechanism. The status of vulnerability mitigation in distributions can be assessed on the following pages: Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, RHEL, Arch, and Fedora. To address the issues […]
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with Canonical, conducted a survey (PDF, 43 pages) among representatives of various companies regarding the usage and implementation of open-source software in enterprises. The statistics are based on a survey of 851 participants. Key trends: Participation in open-source software development: 19% of companies using open-source software are actively involved in maintaining or transferring code to key open-source projects from which they […]