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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 […]
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Microsoft, registered on April 4, 1975, Bill Gates published the source code of the Altair BASIC interpreter. Altair BASIC was released for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputers and became the first product of Microsoft. The interpreter takes up less than 4 KB and can run on systems with 4 KB of RAM. Bill Gates and Paul […]
The release of XZ Utils 5.8.1 has been published, which includes the liblzma library and utilities for working with compressed data in the '.xz' format. XZ Utils 5.8.1 is the first significant release after the incident involving the discovery of a backdoor that facilitated access through sshd. Last week, a tag for 5.8.0 was created in Git, but the release was not officially announced due to issues found after the tag was published […]
The readiness for mass use of the open project Nelm, positioned as an 'alternative to Helm 3', has been announced. Nelm originated during the development of the CI/CD utility werf as a fork of Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes that uses 'charts' to deploy applications in K8s. The Nelm code is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. This fork addresses several long-standing issues in Helm, […]
The general-purpose programming language Rust 1.86 has been released, initiated by Mozilla but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory usage and provides means for achieving high task execution parallelism while avoiding the use of garbage collection and runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and support of the standard library). […]
After three months of development, the release of 25.1 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium, written in C++ using the Qt framework (versions 5 and 6 are supported) and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, has taken place. This release turned out to be the most substantial in the history of the planetarium's development, with a total of 208 changes made between the current and previous versions by 11 contributors. Major […]
Hyprland has turned 3 years old! Over these years, it has reached version 0.48.0. Contrary to popular belief, Hyprland is a hybrid compositor, meaning it can operate not only in tiling mode—it can be configured so that all windows are floating by default. This release includes many bug fixes and improvements. In the new version: Changes breaking backward compatibility: removed opengl:force_introspection and […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.14. Among the most notable changes are: the ntsync driver with Windows NT synchronization primitives, read operation balancing settings in Btrfs RAID1, reflink support in XFS in real-time mode, the possibility of uncached buffered I/O, a dmem cgroup for limiting GPU memory, the use of io_uring in FUSE, attribute delegation in NFS, support for […]
After six months of development, version 0.40 of the popular cross-platform open-source media player mpv has been released. Key changes include: improved auto-completion and visual styling in the console; a new selection menu in the GUI displayed when right-clicking screen buttons; HDR is now natively supported when using direct rendering (DRM) as well as dmabuf-wayland in Linux; scripts have been enhanced with […]
On March 19, the release of the C++ library Lug took place, which implements an embedded domain-specific language for expressing parsers in the form of extended syntax expressions grammar, and is distributed under the MIT license. Library features include: A natural syntax reminiscent of external parser generator languages, with support for attributes and semantic actions. The ability to work with context-sensitive grammars with symbol tables, conditions, and syntactic predicates. Generated parsers […]