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The developers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have implemented a safeguard against project hijacking through the purchase of released domains listed in account parameters. The attack involves attackers searching for accounts linked to emails with expired domains, registering the released domain under themselves, redirecting email traffic to their server, and taking control of the email to initiate […]
The Document Foundation has released version 25.8 of the LibreOffice office suite. Ready-to-use installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The release involved 160 developers, with 40% of changes made by 44 contributors from leading project companies like Collabora and Allotropia, 41% by eight employees from The Document Foundation, and 19% by 108 independent […]
The Pine64 community, which creates open devices, has announced the discontinuation and halt of sales for the PinePhone Pro smartphone. Spare parts for PinePhone Pro will be manufactured for about two more years. The reason for the project shutdown is cited as low demand, insufficient to continue production. No new smartphone models are planned for creation at this time, but the first model of the PinePhone has been available since 2020 […]
The release of Thunderbird email client version 142.0 is now available, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. Thunderbird 142 is built on the Firefox 142 codebase and is classified as an intermediate version, with updates released until the next version. In the ESR branches with long-term support, updates released within the year have resulted in versions 128.14.0 and Thunderbird 140.2.0. Key changes […]
Oracle has released the Solaris operating system 11.4 SRU 84 (Support Repository Update), which offers a series of significant changes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply run ‘pkg update’. Users can also utilize the free version of Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment), developed using a continuous publication model of new […]
The release of web browser Firefox 142 has occurred, along with updates for the long-term support branches — 140.2.0, 115.27.0, and 128.14.0. The Firefox 143 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for September 16. Key innovations in Firefox 142 (1, 2, 3): On the page displayed when opening a new tab, recommended articles are now grouped into separate thematic sections, […]
After two months of development, the release of the distributed source control system Git 2.51 has been presented. Git features high performance and provides tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging of branches. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, as well as digital signature verification by developers for individual tags […]
The release of the Ventoy 1.1.07 toolkit, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems, has been published. The program allows booting an OS from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without requiring image extraction or reformatting of the drive. You simply copy the desired set of ISO images to a USB Flash with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will ensure the operation of the operating systems contained within the images. In […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-48387) has been identified in the NPM package tar-fs, allowing files to be written to any part of the filesystem when unpacking a specially crafted tar archive, not limited to the directory where the unpacking occurs (subject to the current user's access rights). The vulnerability can also be exploited to overwrite existing files; for example, files such as '.ssh/id_rsa' or '.bashrc' may be overwritten to execute code in the system […]
Cloudflare has released version 0.6 of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services in Rust. A proxy built with Pingora has been used in Cloudflare's content delivery network for over two years, replacing nginx and handling over 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features […]
Zulip 11 has been introduced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and development teams. The project was originally developed by Zulip and became open-source after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. Client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]
Kevin Kofler from the Fedora project, part of the working group maintaining KDE packages, announced the formation of XLibre X Server packages for Fedora, a fork of X.Org Server aimed at active development and a thorough cleanup of the X server. Packages with compatible xorg-x11-drv-* drivers have also been prepared for use with XLibre. The packages are published in the Fedora Copr repository […]