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The first alpha release of RPM package manager 6.0 has been formed, which will be used in the fall release of Fedora Linux 43. The project is developed by Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The project's code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Version 5 of RPM has been skipped to avoid overlaps with […]
The OpenSSL 3.5.0 library has been released, implementing SSL/TLS protocols and various encryption algorithms. OpenSSL 3.5 is categorized as a long-term support (LTS) release, with updates released for up to 5 years (until April 2030). Support for previous branches OpenSSL 3.3, 3.2, and 3.0 LTS will continue until April 2026, November 2025, and September 2026 […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.43 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the basic Wayland protocol and provide necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. Wayland-Protocols 1.43 introduces a new protocol called 'xdg-toplevel-tag', allowing Wayland clients to attach tags to top-level surfaces that the composite server can use to identify windows after the application restarts (for example, the application can set […]
Google has released version 135 of the Chrome web browser. Simultaneously, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which forms the foundation of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, continuous Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google API, and transmitting RLZ parameters […]
In the update for macOS 15.4 published last week, Apple has replaced the rsync utility with an alternative implementation called openrsync, developed by the OpenBSD project. The executable file /usr/bin/rsync in macOS now points to openrsync. It is believed that the reason for this replacement was recent security issues discovered in rsync, efforts to reduce components under copyleft licenses, and the desire to eliminate the outdated version of rsync and update […]
NVIDIA has announced the release of the PhysX 5.6 physics simulation engine and the related PhysX SDK toolkit. At the same time, a new version of the fluid modeling library Flow 2.2.0 is now available. The project's code is distributed under the BSD-3 license and supports Linux, macOS, iOS, Windows, and Android platforms. Although the PhysX SDK has been released with source code since 2018 […]
The release of CoreBoot 25.03 has been announced, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 1,001 changes. A total of 131 developers participated in preparing the release. Key changes: Support for motherboards ASROCK Z87 Extreme3, Z87 Extreme4, Z87M Extreme4, and Z87 Pro4 has been implemented. ASUS P8H67-I DELUXE HP Pro 3400 Intel […]
The release of the APT (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit 3.0.0 has been finalized, incorporating changes that accumulated in the experimental branch 2.9. The new release has been accepted into the Debian Unstable branch and will soon be integrated into the Debian Testing repository, which is currently developing Debian 13 and already uses the experimental branch APT 2.9, and will also be added to the package […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.5 — has been published. Since the release of 10.4, 22 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: In WineD3D support for accelerated decoding of H.264 video using the Vulkan graphics API has been implemented. The Bluetooth driver has added the ability to pair devices. The Wine Mono engine has been updated to […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.14.1 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced, developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on Debian 12, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is intended for anonymous browsing using the Tor toolkit. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. For storing user data, […]
The third release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment has been introduced, built from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine some innovative ideas that have not been seen before in user interfaces with traditional elements such as a panel, menu, and icon placement on the desktop. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPL license. Features of Orbitiny Desktop: Panel, […]
The code of the openHalo toolkit has been published, providing a layer to simplify the migration of applications originally written for MySQL to use PostgreSQL databases. The project is implemented as a proxy, transparently translating MySQL queries into PostgreSQL queries and performing reverse transformation for responses. The project is written in C and distributed under the GPLv3 license. SQL dialect and communication protocol support is provided in openHalo […]