Category: Internet News

Release of Grml 2026.09, a live distribution for system administrators.

The Live distribution grml 2026.09 has been released, offering a collection of tools for tasks commonly encountered in system administration, such as data recovery after failures and incident analysis. The distribution is based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and celebrated its twentieth anniversary last year. The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. The Zsh shell is provided by default. The full size of […]

Amazon Linux 2027 Distribution Released

Amazon has started testing the Amazon Linux 2027 (AL2027) distribution, optimized for cloud environments and supporting integration with tools and extended features of the Amazon EC2 service. The distribution is based on the Fedora Linux package base. Builds are created for the x86_64 and ARM64 (Aarch64) architectures. Despite its primary focus on use in AWS (Amazon Web Services), the distribution is also available in […]

Release of the nDPI 6.0 deep packet inspection system.

The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has released the nDPI 6.0 toolkit for deep packet inspection, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established after unsuccessful attempts to submit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has not been maintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for identifying protocols used in the traffic at the […]

Firefox for iOS includes an ad blocker.

Mozilla has announced the arrival of a built-in ad blocker in Firefox for iOS. The new feature allows blocking ad units and tracking code before it loads. Unlike the integrated adblock-rust component in the desktop version of Firefox, the Firefox for iOS version uses the Content Blocker technology provided by the Apple WebKit engine. To enable the ad blocker […]

CERN will move its accelerator management system to Debian but will keep RHEL/AlmaLinux in data centers.

Representatives of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) mentioned in their speech at the MiniDebConf conference plans to migrate over 2,200 industrial and embedded computers, used for managing the accelerator complex, including the Large Hadron Collider and several independent experimental installations, from RHEL to Debian 13 by the end of 2026. It is specified that the migration will not affect data centers […]

Over a million copies of LibreOffice 26.8 were downloaded in the week following its release

The Document Foundation has published download statistics for the LibreOffice 26.8 release. It is reported that the first week saw LibreOffice 26.8 downloaded 1.031 million times through the official download page on the project's website (this statistic does not include users of distributions who use LibreOffice from the official repositories). In comparison, the competing project Apache OpenOffice had its release 4.1.16 published last year […]

Release of nginx 1.31.5 and njs 1.0.1

The release of the main branch nginx 1.31.5 has been published, continuing the development of new features. Only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities are being made in the parallel stable branch 1.30.x. Subsequently, a stable branch 1.32 will be formed based on the main branch 1.31.x. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. In this new release: Added […]

Attackers used BGP to substitute the Virtualizor update server and the Softaculous website

Attackers were able to substitute elements of the Softaculous company's infrastructure by injecting a fake route through the BGP protocol, which allowed them to redirect traffic from the subnet with Softaculous servers to a server controlled by the attackers. As a result of the attack, among other things, they were able to redirect requests to the company's customer website, billing, and update distribution servers for Virtualizor software, after which they used them to distribute malware […]

Release of WinBtrfs 1.10, the implementation of the Btrfs filesystem for Windows.

After more than two years of development, the release of the WinBtrfs project 1.10 has been published, which develops a driver for using the Btrfs file system on the Windows platform. WinBtrfs is not based on the Btrfs code from the Linux kernel, but is a ground-up alternative implementation. It supports operation with Windows XP and later releases. The driver is included in the ReactOS operating system and can be used […]

Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released

The Linux From Scratch 13.1 (LFS) guide is now available, starting with the 13.x branch, which is only created as an edition with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using the source codes of the required software. Additionally, the Beyond Linux From Scratch edition expands on the LFS instructions with information about building and configuring around […]

Release of Firefox 155

The release of the Firefox 155 web browser has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches have been formed — 153.2.0, 140.15.0, and 115.40.0. Firefox 155 is the first release to be formed under the new two-week release cycle, which will allow new features to reach users more frequently, ensure a more predictable release process, and reduce the workload on developers before releases. At this stage […]

Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the developer of the DuckDB database management system.

Amazon has announced the acquisition of DuckLabs, a company developing the open-source DBMS DuckDB. The acquisition process was completed on August 31, and the deal amount is not disclosed. The DuckDB development team will join AWS and continue working on DuckDB technologies under the guidance of the co-founders of DuckLabs. DuckDB's advancements are planned to be used to modernize, simplify, and enhance the analytics stack offered on the AWS platform. The Amazon service […]

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