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AlmaLinux has resumed support for Btrfs, discontinued in RHEL.

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The developers of the AlmaLinux project, which develops the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution, have announced the addition of support for the Btrfs file system and the implementation of the capability to partition drives using Btrfs in the installer. The reason mentioned is the progress in Btrfs development and its advanced features, such as checksums for detecting data and metadata corruption, snapshots, convenient volume management, transparent compression […]

AI tool usage rules have been approved in Fedora for development

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The Fedora project governing board has approved rules governing the use of AI tools in the development of Fedora Linux. AI tools are viewed as a potential opportunity to improve the platform, but there are concerns regarding privacy, security, ethics, and quality. It has been decided not to prohibit the use of AI assistants, provided there is mandatory human oversight of their output and the developer remains responsible for the code. The main principles of use […]

Release of OpenBSD 7.8

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The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.8 has been presented. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the developers of NetBSD, which resulted in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. Following this, Theo de Raadt, along with a group of like-minded individuals, created a new open project based on the NetBSD source tree […]

Release of OpenWrt distribution 24.10.4

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The release of OpenWrt distribution 24.10.4 has occurred, developed for networking devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports 2815 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. Such builds allow the formation of ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages optimized for specific tasks. Ready-made builds have been published for 39 target platforms. Key changes are in […]

Valkey 9.0, a fork of the Redis DBMS, has been released.

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The release of the Valkey 9.0 DBMS has taken place, which branched off from the Redis DBMS last year. The fork was formed after Redis 7.4 was switched to a proprietary license. In the Redis 8.0 release, the code was returned to the free AGPLv3 license, but this did not affect the development of the Valkey project. Valkey is being developed on a neutral platform under the auspices of the Linux Foundation with the participation of developers from […]

Vulnerability in Rust libraries for TAR format that leads to extracting files from a nested archive

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-62518, code name TARmageddon) has been discovered in the async-tar library written in Rust, which provides functions for reading and writing tar archives. This vulnerability allows, when unpacking a specially crafted tar archive, not only the extraction of files contained within, but also files contained in nested tar archives. The vulnerability can be exploited to bypass archive verification systems and unpack files for which […]

The implementation of Binder IPC for Android, written in Rust, has been accepted into the Linux kernel 6.18.

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The implementation of the Binder inter-process communication mechanism, written in Rust, has been accepted into the Linux kernel codebase, which forms the basis for the 6.18 release. Binder is used in Android to facilitate interaction between processes and remote method invocation (one Android process can call a method or function in another Android process using Binder to identify, invoke, and pass arguments between […]

VirtualBox 7.2.4 update addresses vulnerabilities

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Oracle has released a correction update for the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.2.4, addressing 8 vulnerabilities, details of which are not yet disclosed. It is noted that the most serious issue has a severity level of 8.2 out of 10. In addition to the vulnerabilities, the new version includes 6 changes: Initial support for Linux kernel 6.18 has been implemented in the additions for guest systems and host environments with Linux. […]

Intel and AMD standardize the ChkTag mechanism to protect against memory-related vulnerabilities.

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Intel and AMD are jointly developing an extended instruction set called ChkTag (x86 Memory Tagging), which will be standardized for unified implementation in x86 processors from various manufacturers. ChkTag has capabilities similar to the MTE (MemTag) extension already available in ARM processors and also helps to block the exploitation of vulnerabilities caused by accessing already freed memory blocks, buffer overflows, or accessing memory. […]

Release of the free racing game SuperTuxKart 1.5

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After nearly three years of development, the release of Supertuxkart 1.5 has been announced, a free racing game with a wide selection of maps, tracks, and features. The game's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. The new release includes: Three new artifact hunting tasks on the tracks Black Forest, Gran Paradisio Island, and […]

For the Linux kernel, the ntfsplus driver with a new implementation of NTFS has been proposed.

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Namjae Jeon, a participant in the Samba project who maintains the EXFAT driver and KSMBD server in the Linux kernel, has proposed adding a new implementation of the NTFS file system — ntfsplus to the kernel. It is anticipated that a more robust and maintained NTFS driver will enhance the compatibility of Linux systems with Windows devices and simplify user interaction. Currently, NTFS support in Linux is limited to the old NTFS driver, which has been removed. […]

Release of the browser engine Servo 0.0.1

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The first standalone release of the Servo browser engine, written in Rust, has been published. Until now, the project only produced nightly builds. The release note mentions that functionally, it is equivalent to the nightly build from October 19, for which additional manual testing was conducted. This release also marks the beginning of builds for Apple systems running macOS based on […]

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