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A year after the significant last branch formation, Oracle has presented the first beta release of the VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization system. The release is expected in summer. Beta builds of VirtualBox 7.2 are prepared for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36/40, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Key changes: In the graphical […]
The release of AlmaLinux 10.0 has been presented, synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (864 MB), minimal (1.4 GB), and full images (7.3 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, and […]
The release of web browser Firefox 139 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.24.0 and 128.11.0 — have been formed. The Firefox 140 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for June 24. Key innovations in Firefox 139: The ability to set a custom background image or choose a background color for the page displayed when opening a new tab has been added. This function is still […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 25.5 has been published, providing a compact operating environment for single-board computers with processors based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. The builds were formed […]
The Khronos consortium, responsible for developing graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open driver PanVK with the Vulkan 1.2 specification. PanVK provides support for the Vulkan graphics API on ARM GPU devices based on the V10 architecture, such as Mali-G610 and Mali-G310. The driver has successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. The obtaining of […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has presented the release of Linux kernel 6.15. Among the most notable changes are: audit mechanism in Landlock, memory mapping lock mode, fwctl subsystem, Nova driver for NVIDIA GPU, implementation of a host system for the Hyper-V hypervisor, support for zoned storage devices in XFS, optimization of the network subsystem, scrub verification in Bcachefs, and the ability to control operations via io_uring. In the new […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-37899) has been discovered in the ksmbd module, which offers a built-in Linux kernel implementation of a file server based on the SMB protocol, potentially allowing for code execution at the kernel level through the sending of specially crafted packets. Notably, the issue was identified during code analysis by the OpenAI o3 AI model. Since the full code of the ksmbd module exceeds the allowable size for the model […]
ALT Linux developers have introduced a new configurator for GNOME — Tuner, aimed at simplifying the extension of functionality and providing additional settings. It is expected that Tuner can be used by distributions shipping GNOME to create configurators responsible for changing distribution-specific settings. For example, ALT Linux has implemented the TunerPanel plugin, allowing to switch between panel modes (in the style of GNOME 2) and standard modes […]
The NixOS 25.05 distribution release has been introduced, based on the Nix package manager and providing its own developments for simplifying system configuration and maintenance. In NixOS, all system configuration is done through a single system configuration file, configuration.nix. Features are provided for quick rollback of the system to a previous configuration version and switching between different system states. Users can install individual packages separately and […]
The Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.04 release is now available, offering a pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tiling window manager. This distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 24.10, crafted for both experienced GNU/Linux users and newcomers wishing to try a tiling window manager environment without the need for extensive setup. Builds are prepared for download […]
Mistral AI has introduced the Devstral large language model, optimized for solving problems encountered during software development. Unlike typical AI models, Mistral AI goes beyond simply writing individual functions and code completion, providing capabilities to analyze and contextualize (determine the purpose and logic behind) large codebases, establish connections between components, and identify hard-to-detect […]
The Ubuntu Linux developers have outlined the transition to using the Chrony project by default for precise time synchronization in all Ubuntu 25.10 builds. Previously, Ubuntu used the systemd-timesyncd service, which has been decided to be replaced due to the desire to implement the NTS (Network Time Security) protocol for cryptographic protection of time synchronization. The Chrony project provides an independent implementation of the NTP client and server, already utilized for synchronization […]