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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 […]
The CentOS project has announced the preparation of git repositories with changes necessary for building and running the distribution on systems with RISC-V processors. RISC-V specific changes are available in the project's git repositories in the "c10s-rv" branches. In the near future, the prepared changes will be moved from separate repositories into the main CentOS Stream composition, which will allow the formation of standard CentOS Stream builds for RISC-V. Meanwhile, […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl C library and BusyBox utilities. This distribution features enhanced security requirements and is compiled with Stack Smashing Protection (SSP). OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its proprietary package manager, apk, is employed for package management. Alpine is utilized for creating the official Docker container images and […]
Qualys has identified two vulnerabilities in the apport (CVE-2025-5054) and systemd-coredump (CVE-2025-4598) tools, which are used for handling core files produced after process crashes. The vulnerabilities allow access to core files saved after the crash of suid applications or certain system background processes, which may contain cached credentials or encryption keys in their memory. The apport utility is automatically triggered to save core dumps […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have introduced the Agama 15 installer, designed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE, notably separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama supports various frontends, such as a frontend for managing installations via a web interface. The code for the installer components is released under the GPLv2 license and is written in Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript/TypeScript. For testing the new […]
Vulnerabilities have been identified in the configurations of the Kea DHCP server, developed by the ISC consortium as a replacement for the classic ISC DHCP, used by various distributions. In certain situations, these vulnerabilities may allow a local user to execute code with root privileges or overwrite any file in the system: CVE-2025-32801 — allows a local user to gain root privileges on systems where Kea runs as the root user or gain full control […]