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The Debian project developers have announced the removal of ports for the mips64el and armel (ARM EABI) architectures from the unstable and experimental repositories. In the next Debian 14 branch, these architectures will not be supported. The boards that utilized the armel architecture include Raspberry Pi 1, Raspberry Pi Zero, and Raspberry Pi Zero W. Source: opennet.ru
The organization CZ.NIC, which is the registrar for the Czech top-level domain CZ and developer of the open DNS server Knot, has introduced the Turris Omnia NG router, continuing the development of the device Turris Omnia released over the past ten years. Like its predecessor, the new router uses a custom branch of the open platform OpenWRT, supplied under the name Turris OS. The device is available for sale at a price of 561 euros. […]
The final version of the CHERIoT 1.0 specification (Capability Hardware Extension to RISC-V for Internet of Things) has been presented, defining the extension of the instruction set architecture (ISA) for creating secure devices. CHERIoT provides hardware capabilities for tracking memory access, validating pointer operations, and ensuring code block isolation. At the same time, a stable release of the reference formal model CHERIoT ISA has been published, defined […]
The release of the lsFusion 6.1 project is available, which develops a declarative platform for creating business and web applications. The platform is suitable for the development of corporate and accounting applications and can be used as an open and free alternative to the 1C platform. The project code is written in Java and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The standard ERP solution for small and medium businesses, MyCompany, using lsFusion, is distributed under […]
The release of the Devuan 6.0 'Excalibur' distribution, a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, has been presented, which is delivered without the system manager systemd. The new branch is notable for switching to the Debian 13 package base. Live images (1.7 GB) and installation iso images for the amd64 architecture have been prepared for download. Packages are built for the i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64, ppc64el, and riscv64 architectures. The project supports branches for about 400 Debian packages, […]
The first stable release of the TidesDB project has been published, developing a library for storing data in a key/value format. The project can be used as a standalone engine or embedded in applications. Key features include support for ACID transactions and optimization for efficient data storage on flash drives and in RAM. The code is written in C and distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. […]
Patches implementing the 'Wasm' architecture for the Linux kernel have been published in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list, allowing the kernel to be compiled into WebAssembly intermediate code for direct execution in web browsers without involving emulators. Additionally, the project has introduced the capability to run executables in the '.wasm' format and has prepared a 'web console' driver to simulate console interactions. […]
The release of package manager Pacman 7.1, used in the Arch Linux distribution, is now available. Changes include: Mandatory verification by digital signature for packages and repository database files is enabled by default (the SigLevel setting defaults to 'Required'). The absence of a signature or an incorrect signature will now by default lead to termination with an error message. Sandbox isolation has been strengthened. […]
Julian Andres Klode, the lead maintainer of the APT project, announced the decision to add Rust code to the APT package manager, as well as to include the Rust compiler, Rust standard library, and the PGP tools from the Sequoia project written in Rust as mandatory dependencies. The changes are intended to be implemented no earlier than May 2026 to give Debian port developers […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.18 has been published. Since the release of 10.17, 30 bug reports have been closed and 298 changes have been made. The most important changes include: In WoW64 mode (64-bit Windows-on-Windows), which allows 16/32-bit Windows applications to run on 64-bit Unix systems, the ability to map memory for OpenGL using the Vulkan API has been implemented. In WoW64 mode, support for porting […]
Canonical has started delivering separate package options for Ubuntu 25.10 with binaries optimized for the x86-64-v3 architecture. Currently, about 2000 packages from the main repository have been prepared for x86-64-v3, available as an option. These packages have not been tested at the core package level but can already be used by enthusiasts seeking maximum performance. In Ubuntu […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.22 internet applications suite has been published, combining a web browser, an email client, an NNTP conference client, a news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client ChatZilla, the DOM Inspector web development tools, and the Lightning calendar-planner. The new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]