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Release of Angie 1.10.0, a fork of Nginx

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The release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server Angie 1.10.0, forked from Nginx by a group of former developers who left the company F5 Network, has been published. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. The project has received compatibility certificates with Russian operating systems Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt, and the FSTEC version of Alt. The development is supported by the company 'Web Server', which was formed […]

The Fedora 43 installer plans to discontinue support for MBR on x86 systems with UEFI.

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In Fedora Linux 43 on x86 architecture systems, they plan to keep only the option to use GPT (GUID Partition Table) partition tables in all Fedora installations using UEFI. This change has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical part of Fedora distribution development. If the proposal is approved, support for installing Fedora in UEFI mode on disks […]

The programming language Perl 5.42 is now available.

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After a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the programming language Perl — 5.42, has been published. Approximately 280,000 lines of code were modified in preparing the new release (excluding documentation and automatically generated code — 93,000), with changes affecting 1,500 files; 64 developers participated in the development. The 5.42 branch was released according to the established fixed schedule from twelve years ago […]

Work has resumed on the Copyleft-next license, developed as a replacement for GPLv3.

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Bradley Kuhn, founder of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and former director of the Free Software Foundation, and Richard Fontana, one of the three key authors of the GPLv3 license (the other two being Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen) and former director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), announced the resumption of work on the Copyleft-next license. Development of the new license […]

Second Release Candidate for the Debian 13 Installer

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The second release candidate for the installer of the upcoming major release Debian 13 'Trixie' has been published. The release of Debian 13 is expected in mid-July. Currently, there are 136 critical bugs blocking the release, which is comparable to the levels observed during the publication of past releases. Changes compared to the previous testing version of the installer include: the removal of the wget utility from busybox. The apt-setup has disabled […]

In GNOME 49, the document viewer Evince will be replaced by the application Papers.

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The team responsible for GNOME releases has approved the inclusion of a new document viewer, Papers, into the main GNOME lineup. Starting with GNOME 49, the Papers program will be supplied instead of Evince under the name Document Viewer as the default document viewer. Changes related to the replacement of Evince with Papers have been accepted into the GNOME repository. In Ubuntu 25.04, the Papers application is already included […]

Release of CoreBoot 25.06, Libreboot 25.06, and Canoeboot 25.06 firmwares.

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The CoreBoot 25.06 release has been published, developing an open-source alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 879 changes made by 128 developers. Key updates: Support for motherboards has been implemented: ASUS H61M-A/USB3; CWWK CW-ADL-4L-V1.0 and CW-ADLNTB-1C2L-V3.0; Intel Google Chrome EC; MiTAC Computing R520G6SB and SC513G6; NovaCustom V540TNx (14″) and […]

Beta release of the RPM package manager 6.0

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Red Hat has released a beta version of the RPM 6.0 package manager, which will be used in the upcoming autumn release of Fedora Linux 43. The project is utilized in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, Rosa Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The RPM code is released under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Version 5 of RPM has been skipped to avoid overlap with the project […]

Attack via Bluetooth headphones from Sony, Marshall, and Beyerdynamic using Airoha chips

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Vulnerabilities have been found in Bluetooth devices using SoCs from Airoha Systems, allowing control over the device through the sending of specially crafted data via Bluetooth Classic or BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). The attack can be executed without authentication and without prior pairing, as long as the victim's device is within Bluetooth signal range (approximately 10 meters). These vulnerabilities affect certain models of wireless […]

The third pre-release of the Pidgin 3.0 messenger

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The third experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.92) instant messaging client has been presented. This release is marked as having a pre-alpha quality level, not intended for everyday use. The builds are prepared in Flatpak format (only the source archive is currently available). The Pidgin 3 branch has been developed since 2011, following three more years of discussion at the conceptual stage. […]

Vulnerabilities in the sudo utility allow obtaining root privileges in the system.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-32463) has been discovered in the sudo package, which is used for executing commands on behalf of other users. This vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to execute code with root privileges, even if the user is not mentioned in the sudoers configuration. Affected distributions are those using the configuration file /etc/nsswitch.conf; for example, the exploit of this vulnerability has been demonstrated in Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 41. The vulnerability manifests in the configuration as […]

Release of ALT Education 11.0 Distribution

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The company "Bazalt SPO" has released a new version of the Linux distribution for educational organizations — "ALT Education" 11.0, built on the ALT platform 11 (p11). The distribution is intended for everyday use by preschools, schools, universities, and technical colleges. The product is distributed under a Licensing Agreement that allows free use by individuals. Commercial and government organizations can download and […]

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