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NTC IT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 13.1 distribution, built on the rosa 13 platform. This distribution is freely distributed and developed with community involvement. The release is aimed at a wide range of users and will serve as the basis for the corporate distribution ROSA Chrome 13. Builds with KDE (4 GB) and GNOME (4 GB) desktop environments for the x86_64 architecture are available for download. In the repository […]
A second attack on packages in the NPM repository has been confirmed, conducted using a modified self-replicating worm Shai-Hulud, which injects malware into dependencies. As a result of the attack, malicious releases of 605 packages were published, totaling more than 100 million downloads. To carry out the attack, the perpetrators phished the account credentials of the maintainer of one of the popular packages used as a dependency […]
The GrapheneOS project, which develops an alternative open-source firmware based on Android aimed at enhancing security and ensuring privacy, is facing threats of prosecution from law enforcement in France due to their inability to analyze the contents of smartphones belonging to arrested criminals. In a statement released by representatives of GrapheneOS, they reported receiving threats from French law enforcement, warning of server seizures and the arrest of developers if the project refuses to cooperate […]
The release of AlmaLinux 10.1, synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and containing all changes proposed in this release, has been announced. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (927 MB), minimal (1.4 GB), and full images (8.3 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, and […]
The release of the Memtest86+ 8.0 program for testing RAM is now available. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be run directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a bootloader to perform a full check of the RAM. If issues are detected, the built-in Memtest86+ bad memory address map can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas using the memmap option. […]
The Blender Foundation has released version 5.0 of the free 3D modeling software Blender, suitable for addressing various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The LTS branches Blender 4.2 and 4.5 continue to be supported, […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.46 has been published, which contains a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. In the new version: An experimental protocol xx-input-method has been added, allowing applications to implement text input methods for composite servers and generate the entered text, which can be used, for example, for creating virtual keyboards and IME layers […]
The release of the Startwine-Launcher 412 application has been published, developed to run programs and games built for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of the StartWine-Launcher development was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes for beginners — sets of libraries and dependencies required for Windows applications to run on Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]
The release of the MariaDB database management system 12.1.2 has been published, marked as the first stable release of the 12.1 branch. The MariaDB 12.1 branch is classified as a rolling release, continuing the gradual enhancement of functionality and replacing the MariaDB 12.0 branch. Simultaneously, the release of MariaDB 12.2.1 has been issued, which holds the status of a release candidate. The MariaDB 12.1 branch will be maintained until the release of 12.2.2. The MariaDB project is developing a fork […]
The committee overseeing the development of the GCC compiler suite, known as the GCC Steering Committee, has approved the inclusion of the gcc-a68 frontend into the GCC codebase to support the Algol 68 programming language, developed in the late 1960s. After the integration of the frontend, the standard GCC toolchain will be able to compile programs in Algol 68 without the need to install the GNU Algol 68 compiler. In the experimental […]
Rick Byers, one of the technical leads for the team developing Google Chrome, announced the readiness to include a high-performance, memory-safe decoder for the JPEG-XL image format in the Chromium engine. The main criterion for enabling the JPEG-XL decoder by default is the commitment to its long-term support. It is noted that this decision was made in connection with […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have introduced the Agama 18 installer, notable for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama supports the use of various frontends, such as a frontend for installation management via a web interface. Agama has replaced the classic installation interface in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 and openSUSE Leap 16 releases. The code for the installer components is distributed under the GPLv2 license and is written in […]
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