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The mail client Convey has been released, continuing the development of the Geary project, which has not seen new versions since May 2024. The most notable difference from Geary is the switch to GTK4 and libadwaita libraries. The code is written in Vala and is distributed under the LGPL license. Among the changes: A Microsoft Graph backend has been added for working with Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts. […]
The release of the lightweight MX Linux 25.3 distribution has been announced, created through the collaborative efforts of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. This release is based on a Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. Users can choose between the sysVinit and systemd initialization systems. Custom tools for system configuration and deployment are included. […]
The release of GNU Wget2 2.3.0 has been announced, developing a completely rewritten and revamped version of the program for automating recursive content downloads, GNU Wget. Wget2 offers a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows the use of available functionality through the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, and enables downloading only changed data, with the ability to save data with […]
Several recently discovered critical vulnerabilities allow root access in the system or enable remote code execution. Details have been revealed about four vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that enable an unprivileged local user to execute code with root privileges. The issues have been addressed in the Linux kernel updates 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, and 7.2.4. Exploits have been prepared for all vulnerabilities, demonstrating their functionality […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.18 has been published. Since the release of 11.17, 44 bug reports have been closed and 380 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the implementation of functions PsGetThreadProcess, PsGetProcessPeb, PsGetContextThread, PsReferencePrimaryToken, MmGetPhysicalMemoryRanges, SeLocateProcessImageName, MmGetVirtualForPhysical, KeCapturePersistentThreadState, PsDereferencePrimaryToken, and PsGetProcessImageFileName in the NT kernel simulation layer (ntoskrnl.exe), necessary for the proper support of device drivers. The updates for the language […]
The release of the jemalloc 5.4.0 memory management library has been introduced, offering an alternative implementation of malloc functions optimized to reduce fragmentation and operate on multiprocessor systems. To address locking issues on multicore systems, jemalloc uses an isolated memory allocation area for each CPU core, enabling linear scalability as the number of threads increases. In June 2025, the author […]
The release of the MariaDB 13.0.2 database management system has been introduced, marked as the first stable release of the 13.0 branch. The MariaDB 13.0 branch is categorized as rolling releases, continuing to develop functionality gradually and supported until a stable release of the next branch. At the same time, the MariaDB 13.1.1 release is available, which has the status of a release candidate. The MariaDB project develops a fork of MySQL that maintains backward compatibility and features the integration of additional […]
The release of ESP-KVM 0.51.2 has been published, an open firmware that turns the ESP32-P4 microcontroller board into an IP-KVM with access to the display, keyboard, and mouse of a remote computer through a browser, without the need to install an agent on the managed machine. The code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The main change in this release is the ability to record the target screen to the device's microSD card. […]
The release of the Pale Moon web browser 35.0.0 has been published, a fork from the Firefox codebase aimed at enhancing performance, maintaining a classic interface, minimizing memory usage, and providing additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic organization of the interface, without transitioning to […]
NVIDIA has announced the development of the CUDA Rust toolkit, enabling the use of Rust for developing kernels that run on the GPU. The toolkit ensures memory safety at compile time and prevents race conditions. Next year, CUDA Rust is expected to reach a level suitable for developing working projects, comparable to the CUDA C++ and CUDA Python toolkits. The toolkit […]
After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 27 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 27), with the open project OpenJDK serving as the reference implementation. Except for the removal of some deprecated features in Java SE 27, backward compatibility with previous Java releases has been maintained—most previously written Java projects will run without changes under […]
After six months of development, the GNOME 51 desktop environment release has been published. To quickly evaluate the features of GNOME 50, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 51 is already included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 45. In the new release: The Mutter compositing server has revamped its mechanism […]
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