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Google has summarized the optimizations made in Chrome since last August. Changes have allowed for a 22% speed increase in passing the Speedometer 3 test (from 42.84 to 52.35 points) and achieving the best results among all browsers. It was mentioned that the performance gain collectively will reduce website loading wait times for all browser users by 58 million hours if […]
After three years of development, the release of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.3.0 has been published, allowing the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX-like systems, and mobile platforms. The toolkit is written in C++ and is distributed under the wxWindows Library License, approved by the Free Software Foundation and the OSI organization. This license is based on LGPL and allows for setting custom conditions for distributing derivative works […]
The built-in Python module tarfile, which provides functions for reading and writing tar archives, has revealed five vulnerabilities, one of which has been assigned a critical danger level. The vulnerabilities have been addressed in releases Python 3.13.4 and 3.12.11. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2025-4517) allows for files to be written to any part of the file system when extracting a specially crafted archive. In system scripts using […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.21 internet application suite has been announced, combining a web browser, email client, NNTP conference client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and the WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client ChatZilla, the web developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar planner Lightning. The new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
The release of Rocky Linux 9.6 has been introduced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.6 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31, 2032. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for […]
Matthew Miller, the leader of the Fedora project, has published the Fedora development strategy outlining goals and objectives for the next three years. The project will focus on the following areas: Tools for people with disabilities. Work is planned to improve the accessibility of documentation, applications developed by the project, and package building tools for this category of users. Community resilience: mentorship development; […]
The results of testing the latest releases of Redis 8.0 and Valkey 8.1 have been presented, in which significant performance optimizations have been announced. In all conducted tests, the community-developed fork outperformed the original project, primarily due to the implementation in Valkey of a new mechanism for multithreaded input/output processing in asynchronous mode, provided to the project by Amazon. In the AWS Graviton4 testing environment c8g.2xlarge with 8 […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 7.1.10, noting 9 changes. In the additions for hosts and guest systems with Linux, initial support for Linux kernel 6.15 has been added. Issues with building modules for UEK8 (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel) packages used in Oracle Linux 9 distributions have been resolved. In the additions for Linux-based host systems […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 3.0 has been published, focusing on user data privacy. The platform was founded by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project supports 221 smartphone models and prepares firmware builds for the most popular among them. Custom editions of devices based on OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and Pixel have been prepared and distributed with pre-installed /e/OS firmware under the Murena […]
The OTA-9 Focal firmware (over-the-air) has been released, developed by the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped away from it. This is the eighth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04. The project is also working on an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, now renamed to Lomiri. The update for Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Focal includes […]
Meta* has released the IGL 1.1 (Intermediate Graphics Library) graphics library, providing a universal low-level API for GPU management. The IGL API encompasses typical GPU functionality and allows for the creation of cross-platform applications that can run on top of OpenGL, Metal, and Vulkan graphics APIs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows systems, as well as use WebGL for rendering in the Web […]
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 9.6, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 and fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images sized 13 GB and 1.3 GB are available for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 9 provides unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]