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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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ubuntu has decided to switch by default to providing the intel-compute-runtime package, built with the NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS flag, which disables protection against Spectre-class attacks. According to Ubuntu developers, having such protection leads to a performance reduction of about 20% for the package. The intel-compute-runtime package includes components necessary for using OpenCL and OneAPI Level Zero on systems with Intel GPUs. In the builds provided […]
A set of utilities Cryptsetup 2.8 has been released, designed for configuring disk partition encryption in Linux using the dm-crypt module. Support is provided for working with dm-crypt, LUKS, LUKS2, BITLK, loop-AES, and TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt partitions. It also includes utilities veritysetup and integritysetup for configuring data integrity checks based on dm-verity and dm-integrity modules. Key improvements: Added support for inline mode, allowing the use of advanced […]
The Hangover 10.11 toolkit has been released, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in ARM64 (Aarch64) based environments. Development is underway for a Hangover variant for RISC-V architecture. The project's outputs are distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Hangover significantly outperforms configurations where Wine is run entirely in emulation mode, as […]
Ryan Dahl, the creator of the JavaScript platforms Node.js and Deno, is seeking to retract the trademark "JavaScript" from Oracle. The first step was the publication last year of an open letter to Oracle calling for the abandonment of the JavaScript trademark, as the term has become a generic term unrelated to specific Oracle products and is widely used by individuals and companies. […]
The developers of the Artix Linux distribution have introduced experimental builds transitioned to using XLibre, a fork of the X.Org Server. Artix Linux is based on the Arch Linux package base and is notable for using openrc, runit, dinit, and s6 system managers instead of systemd, at the user's discretion. XLibre builds have been created for testing with Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE desktops, with a size of 2 GB, as well as a full build, […]
Ariadne Conill, creator of the Audacious music player, initiator of the IRCv3 protocol development, and leader of the Alpine Linux security team, has published the initial implementation of the Wayback layer that allows desktop environments based on the X11 protocol to run using components based on Wayland. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license (the code file states public domain […]
Daniel Almeida, who is developing video codecs at Collabora, published the initial implementation of the Tyr driver for ARM Mali GPUs, which utilizes the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology for Mali G310, G510, and G710, in the Linux kernel developers mailing list. The driver code is written in Rust and contains just over 600 lines of code. Work on the driver […]