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Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, based on the Wine project codebase, aimed at enabling the launch of Windows games on Linux via the Steam catalog. Release 11.0-1 is marked as the first stable version of the 11.0 branch. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Linux users to directly launch games distributed via the Steam client.
The LineageOS project has launched a new section with statistics on firmware usage. It reports nearly 1.5 million active installations, with only 26% (374,000) on official builds and 74% (1.1 million) on unofficial builds from third-party projects. Leading the device rankings is not a smartphone, but Waydroid — an environment for running Android applications on Linux.
2 Russian developer Nikita Aksyonov, known as Carter54, has ported the classic Carmageddon to the browser. This is not an emulation via DOSBox but a native web port of the original game from 1997 that runs directly in modern browsers. According to the author, published on DTF (dtf.ru), the fan project Dethrace, which focuses on reverse engineering Carmageddon and restoring the engine, served as the basis for this port […]
1 Today, version 1.0.18 of the Northern Star web browser has been released. Folks, this version has improved support for HTML and CSS, enhanced performance, and can now almost playback YouTube videos. Forward! https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/tag/1.0.18 The project is written in C and distributed under the Nordstjernen Source v1.0 license, transitioning to the MIT license ten years after publication. In the browser […]
2 On July 1, ReactOS, a free OS with binary compatibility for Windows applications and drivers, received its first implemented system call from the Windows NT6 family (which corresponds to products like Windows Vista, Windows 7, and 2008 Server). Added: NtGetCurrentProcessorNumberEx (returns the number of the logical processor on which the calling thread is currently running), a test for this function, and the implementation […]
FreeBSD has patched 22 vulnerabilities, one of which could potentially allow remote code execution with root privileges, and 13 that allow privilege escalation. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in updates FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1, FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p11, 14.4-RELEASE-p7, and 14.3-RELEASE-p16. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-49420) is caused by a buffer overflow in the libalias library, used in the kernel-level packet filter ipfw.
Ravi Sharma from the Ubuntu Foundations Team summarized the work done over the past year to provide full support for the ARM64 architecture in Ubuntu. It was noted that, thanks to improvements in tools and infrastructure, as well as promoting changes in the main Linux kernel, specific ARM64 issues could be resolved this year, such as package distribution through a separate repository, […]
In the firmware used in consumer and industrial routers, switches, wireless access points, and video surveillance systems from Tenda, a backdoor (CVE-2026-11405) has been identified, allowing access to the web interface with administrative rights bypassing the standard authentication process and regardless of the administrator account settings. The provided access rights allow for managing all settings, manipulating traffic, disabling protective measures, and using the device […]
1 The project f15se2-ex 0.1.0 has been released — a port of the flight simulator MicroProse F-15 Strike Eagle II for modern systems. The project is based on reconstructed source code from version F-15 Strike Eagle II v451.03, along with the Desert Storm Expansion Disk from 1991. The aim of the project is to transfer the game to modern architectures while preserving the spirit of the original and improving its technical aspects. As a graphical and […]
After three months of development, OpenSSH 10.4 has been released, an open implementation of the client and server for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Key changes: Experimental support has been added for the combined digital signature scheme 'mldsa44-ed25519', which combines the post-quantum ML-DSA 44 algorithm with the Ed25519 elliptic curve-based algorithm. To enable support, 'mldsa44-ed25519' should be added to the HostKeyAlgorithms and PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms directives. […]
Google has released version 150 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a crash report notification system, modules for playback of copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, constant Sandbox isolation, the inclusion of keys for Google APIs, and the transmission of RLZ parameters […]
The project D7VK 1.12 has been released, which develops the implementation of the Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 graphics APIs proposed by Microsoft in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. D7VK works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows retro games tied to Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 to run on Linux using Wine. The project code is written […]