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After a year and a half of development, the OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 distribution has been released. The project is developed by the community after Mandriva S.A. handed over the project management to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association'. Live builds are available for download for the x86_64 architecture with KDE (full 3.2 GB, slimmed-down 2.4 GB in X11 and Wayland versions), GNOME (3.2 GB), Cosmic (3 […]
The Khronos consortium, which develops graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open NVK driver with the Vulkan 1.4 specification on systems with NVIDIA GPUs based on the Maxwell (GTX 700/800/900), Pascal (GTX 1000), and Volta (TITAN V) microarchitectures. The driver has successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Obtaining certification provides […]
The release of Monado 25.0.0 has been published, developing an open implementation of the OpenXR standard. The OpenXR standard is prepared by the Khronos consortium and defines a universal API for creating virtual and augmented reality applications, as well as a set of layers for interacting with hardware. Monado provides a runtime that fully complies with OpenXR requirements, which can be used to facilitate work with virtual and augmented reality on smartphones, tablets, […]
After two and a half years of development, the release of the independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.7 has been finalized. Developed since 2001 in accordance with the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle, it is aimed at experienced users. The project's goal is to create a simple and transparent distribution for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, with a maximally simplified structure and containing a relatively small number of […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the domain ownership verification system at the SSL.com certification authority, allowing attackers to obtain a TLS certificate for any domain by providing an email address controlled by the attacker. Gaining access to an email associated with the target domain was sufficient to acquire a TLS certificate. For example, the vulnerability allowed the issuance of TLS certificates for domains used in public email services such as gmail.com, yandex.ru, yahoo.com, outlook.com, and icloud.com. The vulnerability also provided attackers with the ability to […]
The release of the Mox 0.0.15 project has been announced, which develops a comprehensive solution for the operation of mail servers, including all components necessary for sending and receiving email. It offers custom implementations of SMTP and IMAP4 servers, a system for filtering unwanted content, as well as web interfaces for administrators and users. The project code is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. The project's goal is […]
The release of EasyREST 0.8 has occurred, a lightweight extensible REST service for executing CRUD and aggregated queries to relational databases. The project is written in Go and utilizes a plugin system to connect to various DBMS (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis). The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. To run it, you only need to compile or download the executable file and specify the plugins in the YAML configuration file or through […]
The release of Bastille 0.14.20250420 has been published, a system for automating the deployment and management of applications running in containers isolated by the FreeBSD Jail mechanism. The code is written in Shell, requires no external dependencies for operation, and is distributed under the BSD license. A command-line utility called bastille is provided for managing containers, allowing users to create and update Jail environments based on their chosen version of FreeBSD, as well as […]
14 vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libsoup library, developed by the GNOME project. Libsoup provides client and server HTTP implementations that utilize GObjects for integration with GNOME applications. The library is used in GNOME Shell, the Epiphany browser (GNOME Web), the Shotwell image viewer, in the GStreamer plugin souphttpsrc, and in applications that use libwebkit2gtk. Previously, the libsoup library was used in NetworkManager, which has been […] since version 1.8.
The results of an analysis of network activity while using the browsers Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge, Opera, Brave, Yandex Browser, Ungoogled Chromium, Mulvad, Vivaldi, Librewolf, Arc, Tor Browser, Kagi Orion, Pale Moon, Floorp, Zen, Waterfox, and Thorium have been published. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the traffic associated with the browsers sending service network requests unrelated to the content being processed by the user. In addition to telemetry transmission […]
The release of the free Scribus 1.6.4 document layout package has been announced. The package provides tools for professional print layout, includes tools for generating PDF, and supports working with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is written using the Qt toolkit and is provided under the GPLv2+ license. Ready binary builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.6 has been published. Since the release of 10.5, 27 bug reports have been closed and 286 changes have been made. The most significant changes: A new lexer has been proposed in the command interpreter cmd.exe. Support for PBKDF2, a password-based key derivation function, has been added to the Bcrypt library. Metadata support has been expanded in the WindowsCodecs library. […]