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The team responsible for preparing Fedora Linux releases has announced the final stage of migrating the project from its own Pagure platform to a new collaborative development system based on the Forgejo project. In late September, a development service called Fedora Forge was launched in test mode on Forgejo for code management and issue tracking. On November 18, […]
After two years of development, the UDisks 2.11.0 package has been released, including a system background process, libraries, and tools for organizing access to and management of disks, storage devices, and related technologies. UDisks provides a D-Bus API for working with disk partitions, configuring MD RAID, managing block devices via loop mounting, manipulating file systems, and more. Additionally […]
The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.4.0 has been created, implemented as a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic changes to packet filter rules via D-Bus, without needing to reload the filter rules and without disrupting established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 distribution. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 branch was formed seven years after the release of SUSE 15. SUSE 16 packages have already been used as the basis for the community-supported distribution openSUSE Leap 16. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates and patches is limited to a 60-day trial […]
Google has decided to remove components for supporting the XML transformation language XSLT from the Chromium browser engine. The reason cited is to reduce the attack surface by discontinuing the use of the libxslt library. According to Google, supporting XSLT 1.0 poses unjustified security risks as vulnerabilities are periodically discovered in the libxslt library (for example, CVE-2025-7425 and CVE-2022-22834) and it has issues […]
All code providing support for the X11 protocol has been removed from the Mutter composite manager's codebase. At the same time, components for supporting X11 have been deleted from the GNOME Shell codebase. In the upcoming release of GNOME 50 scheduled for spring next year, full support for running under the X server will be discontinued. The ability to run X11 applications via XWayland will remain. Preparations for the removal of code related to […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the LXQt 2.3.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been presented, continuing the development of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface follows classic desktop organization ideas but brings a modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly environment that incorporates the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is hosted […]
The release of SQLite 3.51 has been published, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is in the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restriction for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium. Key changes: New JSON functions jsonb_each() and jsonb_tree() have been added, differing from the previously available functions json_each() and json_tree() in that […]
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) has released version 1.3 of the OCI Runtime specification. The specification outlines the behavior and configuration interface for running and managing isolated containers, unifying the interaction with low-level runtime components such as runc, crun, youki, gVisor, and Kata Containers. OCI Runtime ensures the interchangeability of such components in high-level toolkits like containerd and CRI-O. The release of OCI Runtime 1.3 […]
The non-profit Rust Foundation, which focuses on the development and support of the Rust language and its associated ecosystem, has introduced the 'Maintainers Fund' initiative to finance developers who create Rust and maintainers responsible for overseeing the project's development. It is noted that the Rust language cannot evolve, remain secure, and function without maintainers who perform tasks such as reviewing pull requests and conducting refactoring, while […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.37, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for delivering managed services. Cozystack enables the launch and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
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