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After 8 months of development, the release of the free hypervisor Xen 4.21 has been published. The development of the new release involved companies such as Amazon, Arm, EPAM Systems, and AMD. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Development is carried out as part of the Linux Foundation organization. Key changes in Xen 4.21 include full support for the Linux stubdomain device model, […]
Cloudflare has published an analysis of one of the largest incidents in its infrastructure, which caused a significant portion of its content delivery network to be inoperable for over 3 hours yesterday. The failure occurred after a change in the structure of the database hosted in ClickHouse, after which the configuration file for the bot mitigation system doubled in size. The database contained […]
After three months of development, the release of the distributed source code management system Git 2.52 has been announced. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resilience against 'backward' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, as well as verification through digital signatures of individual tags by developers […]
The release of AlmaLinux 9.7 is now available, synchronized with the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (1 GB), minimal (2 GB), and full images (10 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later […]
The developers of the openSUSE distribution have introduced the zssh project, which attempts to implement the SSH protocol in the Zig language. The implementation includes code for parsing the protocol and working with SSH-related primitives, such as keys, certificates, and the messaging mechanism with ssh-agent. The encryption algorithms are borrowed from existing libraries. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The goals include […]
Simon Josefsson, who maintains 170 packages in Debian, introduced the Debian Libre Live Images project, providing Debian GNU/Linux builds free from non-free components, such as firmware blobs. In accordance with the decision made in 2022, the official Debian ISO images now include both free firmwares from the main repository and proprietary firmwares distributed through the repository […]
The Marathon OS project has been launched, developing a Linux distribution for mobile devices that combines the work done in the PostmarketOS distribution with the Marathon Shell graphical interface. The user environment is built using Qt and QML, and is based on a proprietary composite server utilizing the Wayland protocol, mimicking the gesture control model of the BlackBerry 10 operating system. The project's code is written in C++ and […]
The release of OmniOS Community Edition r151056 has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues to advance the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and core set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used for building scalable web systems, virtualization […]
The release of the browser engine Servo 0.0.2 and its accompanying demo browser ServoShell, both written in Rust, has been announced. Functionally, this release is similar to the nightly build from November 14, which underwent additional manual testing. Ready-to-use builds are provided for Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. The engine was initially developed by Mozilla, but later came under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. […]
The developers of the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index) have implemented an additional verification step during login, requiring email confirmation for any operation when connecting from a device or browser that has not previously logged in. This confirmation is required in addition to the existing two-factor authentication, which requires entering a one-time code (TOTP — Time-based One-Time Password) alongside the usual credentials. When using […]
The November Android security bulletin reveals information about the vulnerability CVE-2025-48593 in the Bluetooth subsystem, affecting Android versions 13 to 16. The vulnerability has been assigned a critical severity level (9.8 out of 10) as it can lead to remote code execution when processing specially crafted Bluetooth packets. Google has not yet disclosed detailed information about the vulnerability, but independent researchers assert […]
The second corrective update for Debian 13 has been released, incorporating accumulated package updates and installer fixes. The release includes 123 updates addressing stability issues and 55 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.2 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as 7zip, ansible-core, dkms, epiphany-browser, evolution, fonts-noto-color-emoji, mailmindr, nextcloud-desktop, openssl, […]