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The release of the Exim 4.100 mail server has been published, which includes accumulated fixes and adds new features. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Key changes: Added 'psl' and 'regdom' options for searching the PSL (Public Suffix List) and the database of registered domain names. PSL includes a list for identifying standard subdomains assigned to different […]
Work on the mathematical formal verification of the reliability and security of the seL4 microkernel on AArch64 architecture systems has been completed. The verification involves a mathematical proof of seL4's correctness, which confirms its full compliance with specifications set out in formal language. The reliability proof allows the use of seL4 in critical systems based on ARM64 processors, which require a higher level of security and […]
A new version of the PorteuX 2.8 distribution, based on Slackware and inspired by the Slax and Porteus projects, has been released. Notable features of PorteuX include preconfigured environments based on desktop environments such as Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce, inclusion of hardware acceleration for multimedia file processing on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, and the ability to boot in Live mode in 3 […]
The RDPClient for the KolibriOS operating system, written in assembly language, has been published. The cross-compilation toolchain used was Kos-32 based on GCC-5.4.0. A statically linked BearSSL library was employed to implement an encrypted channel. Given the limitations of KolibriOS and its toolchain, development was carried out in C with direct calls to system calls. An AI assistant, Claude, was used during development. Implemented features include dynamic resizing […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.16 has been published. Since the release of 11.15, 35 bug reports have been closed and 244 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the implementation of hardware-accelerated video decoding using VA-API. The Wine Mono engine has been updated to version 11.3.0, which adds support for building for the ARM64 architecture. Wine Mono is distributed […]
According to Bloomberg, the Ministry of State Security of the PRC has instructed several government agencies to discontinue the use of the Windows 10 China Government Edition operating system in favor of Chinese Linux distributions such as Kylin OS and UOS (UnionTech OS based on Deepin). This migration is part of a long-term strategy to replace foreign technologies in government agencies with open solutions developed […]
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails web framework, announced the establishment of the non-profit organization Omacom Foundation, which will ensure the long-term support of the development of the Omarchy Linux distribution and its related infrastructure. The organization will also manage trademarks, provide funding, and support open projects and developers upon whom the distribution depends. The foundation's start-up budget is […]
The Pine64 project, which focuses on creating open devices, has announced the suspension of Linux device production due to a shortage of DRAM memory and eMMC storage. The possibility of resuming production will be considered in the second half of next year and will depend on prices for DRAM and eMMC. Stocks of already produced devices PineNote and PineTab2 will run out in about 3 months. The production of devices based on microcontrollers, such […]
The release of the Rust programming language 1.98, initially based on Mozilla's project but now developed under the guidance of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on safe memory handling and provides tools for achieving high parallelism in task execution, while avoiding the need for a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is limited to basic initialization and support for the standard library). Methods of operation […]
The release of the RPM package manager 6.1 has been published, which will be used in the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 distribution. The project is developed by Red Hat and is utilized in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, Rosa Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The project's code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. During the preparation of RPM 6.1, a transition to a new […]
The SoLo project has been published, allowing fully static Linux programs compiled with musl to load glibc libraries installed on the system through dlopen(), primarily GPU drivers. Typically, static builds are incompatible with Vulkan and OpenGL drivers, which distributions provide as shared libraries compiled with glibc. SoLo removes this limitation using an ELF executable loader built into the file and a layer that translates […]
The candidate release for X.Org Server 26.1.0 (xorg-server 26.0.99.901) has been published, marking the start of the testing phase before the final stable release. X.Org Server 26.1.0 will be the first major release of X.Org Server in the last five years — the previous significant branch 21.1 was released in 2021. Key changes compared to xorg-server 21.1: Removal of the autoconf/automake build system in favor of support […]