Category: Internet News

The Jakarta EE 11 platform is now available, continuing the evolution of Java EE.

The Eclipse community has introduced the Jakarta EE 11 platform. Jakarta EE succeeded Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) after the specifications, TCK, and reference implementation development processes were transferred to the Eclipse Foundation, a non-profit organization. The platform continued to evolve under its new name, as Oracle handed over only the technologies and project management, but did not transfer the rights […]

Release of Tails 6.17 distribution

The release of the specialized Tails 6.17 distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), developed as part of the Tor project, has been announced. The distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is designed for anonymous internet access using Tor tools. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by a packet filter. User data […]

Second Beta Release of VirtualBox 7.2

Oracle has released the second beta of the VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization system. The release is expected this summer. Builds with the second beta of VirtualBox 7.2 have been prepared for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36/40, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. The main changes compared to the first beta version include: On systems using Windows […]

Deepin 25 distribution is available, developing its own graphical environment.

The release of Deepin 25, which develops its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 40 user applications, including the Deepin Music player, Deepin Movie video player, installer, and Deepin Store software center, has been announced. The project was started by a group of developers in China but has transformed into an international project and supports the Russian language. The distribution repository includes over 8000 […]

The release of Oracle Linux 10.

Oracle has released Oracle Linux 10, built on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images of sizes 8.5 GB and 1.1 GB are offered for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 10 provides unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]

Release of the Kea 3.0 DHCP server, developed by the ISC consortium.

The ISC consortium has released version 3.0 of the DHCP server Kea, which replaces the classic ISC DHCP. Kea 3.0 is noted as the first release that will have a long-term support (LTS) cycle — updates will be provided for three years. New significant stable releases are planned to be formed every six months instead of annually. The source code of the project is distributed under the license […]

The release of mmc-utils 1.0, utilities for managing MMC and SD memory cards.

The release of the mmc-utils 1.0 utility set, designed for low-level configuration of MMC, eMMC, and SD memory cards from user space, has been published. This release is noted as the first official release (the project has been in development since 2012). The code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license. The utilities can be used to read the CSD registers (card parameters), CID (card identifier), and SCR (configuration […]

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 distribution is now available.

After a year of development, SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 distribution. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension are formed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates […]

Mozilla has discontinued the DeepSpeech project, which was developing a speech recognition engine.

Mozilla has officially archived the repository of the open speech recognition engine DeepSpeech. The last change in the codebase was the update of the README file, which added information about the discontinuation of the project's development. Before this, the last commit was dated 2021. In fact, the development of DeepSpeech had stopped back in 2020, after all the developers of the engine were laid off from Mozilla. Developers […]

Release of web browser Chrome 138

Google has released version 138 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing protected content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, constant Sandbox isolation, the delivery of keys to Google API, and transmission of RLZ parameters […]

The third edition of the PNG format has been published.

The W3C Consortium has published the third edition of the PNG image format specification, which has received recommended standard status. The new version is fully backward compatible with the second edition of the PNG specification released in 2003 and features additional capabilities such as support for High Dynamic Range (HDR), animated images (APNG), integration of EXIF metadata, and CICP (Coding-Independent Code Points) properties for color definition […]

Vulnerabilities in the package managers Nix, Lix, and Guix.

Vulnerabilities have been identified in the package managers GNU Guix, Nix, and Lix, allowing code execution with the user privileges under which build tasks are run (e.g., nixbld* in Nix/Lix). This can be exploited to write data into the build environment and make alterations to the build process. The issues are present in the background processes guix-daemon and nix-daemon, used for organizing […]

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