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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 […]
The release of the anonymous network I2P 2.9.0 and the C++ client i2pd 2.57.0 has been announced. I2P is a multilayered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively using end-to-end encryption to ensure anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and is formed by the resources (bandwidth) provided by its users, which allows it to operate without centrally managed servers (communications within the network […]
The initiative to transform GNOME OS from a distribution for GNOME testers and developers into a general-purpose distribution suitable for everyday use by regular users has moved to a new stage. Nightly builds of GNOME OS have been announced for testing by developers and advanced users. The main goal of the testing is to refine the system when using GNOME OS on real hardware as the primary […]
The release of the pfSense CE 2.8.0 (Community Edition) distribution for creating firewalls and network gateways has been published. The distribution is based on the FreeBSD codebase utilizing the developments of the m0n0wall project and the pf packet filter. An ISO image has been prepared for the amd64 architecture. The distribution is managed through a web interface. A Captive […] can be used for allowing users to access wired and wireless networks.
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.9 has been released. Since the 10.8 version, 34 bug reports have been closed and 277 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The built-in Vkd3d package implementing Direct3D 12 has been updated to version 1.16, which now includes default support for DXIL (DirectX Intermediate Language) shaders and initial support for geometry shaders […]
The release of the dpScreenOCR 1.5.0 program, utilizing Tesseract for optical character recognition, has occurred. Pre-built binaries are available for Linux and Windows (package repositories for Debian and Ubuntu are also available). The program's code is written in C++ and distributed under the zlib license. dpScreenOCR allows capturing an arbitrary area of the screen using a global hotkey and mouse, from which the text will be recognized. In […]
Linus Torvalds has demanded that the administrator of kernel.org immediately block the account of Kees Cook, the former chief sysadmin of kernel.org and leader of the Ubuntu Security Team, who maintains 14 security-related subsystems in the kernel. Konstantin Ryabtsev, responsible for the infrastructure work of kernel.org, carried out the block. The reason for the block was a pull request to include changes in the 6.16 kernel branch, referring to a git repository, in which […]
The release of SQLite 3.50 has been published, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and freely for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a consortium specifically created for this purpose. Key changes: New SQL functions unistr() and unistr_quote() have been added to replace escaped sequences (\uXXXX) with unicode characters and vice versa. In […]
The VeraCrypt project has released version 1.26.24, which is a continuation of the disk encryption system TrueCrypt that has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and addressing issues identified during the audit of TrueCrypt's source code. The code developed by the VeraCrypt project is distributed under the Apache […]