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The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 4.0.0 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, functionality extension through modules, support for caching, and tools for cross-compilation, […]
GitHub has announced a limit of 100,000 repositories per user or organization account. The limit will take effect on April 28. Once the threshold of 50,000 repositories is crossed, a warning banner will appear for the owner, and a notification will be sent to the administrator's email. This change aims to prevent performance slowdowns in accounts with an excessive number of […]
A patch release of the Exim mail server 4.98.2 has been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-30232) that may allow privilege escalation. It is not specified whether the vulnerability can be exploited remotely. The issue has been present since the release of Exim 4.96. Affected versions have been used in major distributions like Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04/24.10, openSUSE 15.6, Arch Linux, Fedora, and FreeBSD. RHEL and its derivatives are not […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 17.3, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 package base, has been published. The target audience of the distribution is beginner users familiar with working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a dedicated configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and it includes a selection of applications similar to programs that […]
David Edmundson and Oliver Beard presented a project for a new display manager — Plasma Login Manager — in the KDE developer mailing list. The desire to replace the login manager is explained by unresolved architectural issues in the SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager), which replaced KDM starting from Plasma 5. As a golden […]
Cloudflare has introduced the opkssh (OpenPubkey SSH) toolkit, which allows integration of centralized authentication into OpenSSH with login capabilities through OpenID Connect providers. With opkssh, you can eliminate manual management and configuration of SSH keys, and connect to the server from any host without the need to create private keys on each client machine and without manual […]
The release of the LibrePCB 1.3.0 free printed circuit board design package has been announced. LibrePCB is positioned as an intuitive package for quick board development that lags in functionality behind KiCad but is much easier to use, catering not only to beginners but also to professional engineers. The software is available in builds for Linux (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage), FreeBSD, macOS […]
The release of the AerynOS 2025.03 distribution has been presented, which is the first update following the renaming of the Serpent OS project. The distribution uses its own package manager and an atomic system update model. Development is being carried out by the old team of the Solus distribution, which includes Ikey Doherty — the creator of Solus, and Joshua Strobl — the key developer of the Budgie desktop environment. The builds […]
After six months of development, the release of the CRIU 4.1 (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) toolkit has been published, designed to save and restore processes in user space. The toolkit allows saving the state of a single or group of processes, and then resuming work from the saved position, even after a system reboot or on another server without interrupting already established network connections. Code […]
After six months of development, the open-source video player MPV 0.40 has been released, which branched from the code base of the MPlayer2 project in 2013. In MPV, the primary focus is on developing new features, without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1+ license, with some parts remaining under GPLv2, but the transition to LGPL is nearly complete and to disable […]
Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the Kubernetes ingress controller ingress-nginx, allowing attackers to execute their own code on the servers of cloud systems utilizing the Kubernetes platform, and gain full privileged access to the Kubernetes cluster. The issues have been assigned a critical severity level (9.8 out of 10). The researchers who discovered these flaws have assigned the vulnerabilities the code name IngressNightmare and noted that they affect approximately 43% of cloud environments. The vulnerabilities […]
Vladimir Serbinenko, one of the three maintainers of the GRUB2 bootloader, who has contributed more than five thousand changes to the codebase, has brought up for discussion the possibility of writing modules for GRUB2 using the Rust language. Vladimir presented the first results of experiments with adding Rust support into GRUB2 and creating the necessary bindings. Changes have also been prepared for GRUB to use shared libraries ('.so', ET_DYN) for […]