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The experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.19 has been published. Since the release of 10.18, 34 bug reports have been closed, and 439 changes made. The most significant changes include: Support for the Reparse Point mechanism, which allows additional data identifiable through tags to be attached to files and directories. Flags have been added for reading, creating, and deleting Reparse objects […]
Red Hat has announced the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 distribution, as well as an update to the previous branch — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7. Ready installation images are available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (public ISO images of CentOS Stream 10 and free RHEL developer builds can be used for functionality evaluation). The release is formed for x86_64 architectures, […]
Google has summarized the use of Rust components in the Android platform. The strategy for integrating safe development methods for new code into Android has proven successful. In 2025, for the first time, the proportion of vulnerabilities caused by memory handling errors was less than 20% of the total number of vulnerabilities. In comparison, in 2024, this figure was 24% in Android, […]
Valve has released version 10.0-3 of the Proton project, based on Wine's codebase and aimed at enabling the execution of gaming applications built for Windows on Linux, as listed in the Steam catalog. Release 10.0-3 is noted as the first stable release of the 10.0 branch (previous updates in this branch were marked as test versions). The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton […]
After six months of development, version 4.2 of the CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) toolkit has been released, designed for saving and restoring processes in user space. The toolkit allows you to save the state of one or a group of processes and then resume operation from the saved position, even after a system reboot or on another server without interrupting already established network connections. The code […]
The release of the email client Thunderbird 145.0 is available, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. Thunderbird 145 is built on the Firefox 145 codebase and is classified as an intermediate version, with updates released until the next version. In the ESR branch with long-term support, updates are released for a year, resulting in the release of Thunderbird 140.5.0. Key changes in Thunderbird […]
The release of the proprietary browser Vivaldi 7.7 has occurred, developed on the Chromium engine by former developers of the Opera Presto engine. Vivaldi builds are prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The changes made to the Chromium codebase are distributed under an open license. The browser's interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, Node.js platform, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The implementation of the interface is available […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 7.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced, which is developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base, comes with the GNOME 48 desktop, and is designed for anonymous web access using the Tor toolkit. By default, all connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by a packet filter. When saving user data […]
Canonical has announced the introduction of a 15-year update policy for LTS releases of Ubuntu. This extension will apply to all current LTS releases starting from Ubuntu 14.04. Thus, support for Ubuntu 14.04 has been extended to April 2029, updates for Ubuntu 24.04 will be provided until 2039, for Ubuntu 22.04 until 2037, for Ubuntu 20.04 until 2035, and so on. Public updates, as well as […]
Google has announced the start of testing a developer verification system for Android applications and a revision of the previously announced restrictions on installing applications from manually downloaded APK packages created by developers who have not registered their packages with Google and have not verified their personal data. It is noted that the company has taken into account the concerns and requests of the community and decided to implement an option for advanced users who accept the risks associated with […]
The developers of the yt-dlp project, which continues the development of the youtube-dl toolkit for downloading audio and video from online services, have announced that starting with today's release yt-dlp 2025.11.12, a third-party JavaScript engine is required to fully download content from YouTube. The use of a JavaScript engine is explained by the introduction of checks on YouTube that require the execution of code in JavaScript. Support for working with YouTube without JavaScript has been declared […]
After six months of development, the GNU project has introduced the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 1.1. The platform is considered ready for the implementation of working payment services and can already be legally applied for selling goods in Switzerland. Enterprises wishing to set up sales payments using GNU Taler only need to have an account with any Swiss bank and launch the backend provided by the platform for organizing […]