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Luboš Kocman, responsible for preparing openSUSE releases, announced that SUSE is considering ending BIOS boot support, which would prevent the use of SUSE and openSUSE distributions on systems lacking UEFI support. The desire to discontinue BIOS support is explained by the fact that starting with the SLES 16 and openSUSE Leap 16 releases, package builds will be made for architectures [...]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.41 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the basic Wayland protocol and provide features necessary for building composite servers and user environments. The new version includes the color-management protocol in the 'staging' category, developed since 2014, offering capabilities for color management and support for High Dynamic Range (HDR). […]
AMD has announced the resolution of six vulnerabilities in its AMD EPYC and AMD Ryzen processors. The three most critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-31342, CVE-2023-31343, CVE-2023-31345) potentially allow for custom code execution at the System Management Mode (SMM), which has a higher priority than hypervisor mode and ring zero protection. Compromising SMM grants unrestricted access to all system memory and can […]
Zyphra has released the first beta version of the AI voice synthesis model Zonos under the Apache 2.0 license. The toolkit offered alongside the model supports voice cloning, enabling speech synthesis in the desired voice by providing a 30-second reference recording of the speaker. Synthesis is supported in English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German. The model encompasses 1.6 billion parameters and […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs file system, has submitted a pull request with fixes for Bcachefs proposed for inclusion in the 6.14-rc3 branch. In addition to information about the fixes, the message announces the stabilization of the Bcachefs disk structure format. Any further changes to the format will be classified as optional and will be implemented as optional extensions. The fixes include: improved performance in […]
The release of Btrfs-Progs 6.13 has been presented, which includes utilities and libraries for working with the Btrfs file system from user space. It contains a summary utility for Btrfs administration, the mkfs.btrfs partition creation utility, the fsck.btrfs partition check program, the btrfstune parameter modification interface, the btrfs-image FS image creation utility, and the libbtrfsutil library. The code is written in C […]
The development of the CADBase platform continues, designed for storing data related to engineering and computer design. The primary task of the platform is to exchange 3D models, drawings, and related information such as accompanying documentation, supplier catalogs, certificates, and standardization and classification documents. The code is written in Rust and distributed under the MIT license. Among the changes: new capabilities added […]
Corrective updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, and 13.19, fixing over 70 bugs and closing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-1094), which in late December was utilized in attacks on BeyondTrust and the U.S. Department of Treasury. The issue in PostgreSQL was identified while analyzing a remote vulnerability (CVE-2024-12356) in BeyondTrust's PRA (Privileged Remote Access) services and BeyondTrust […]
Following Hector Martin's announcement of stepping down as maintainer and ceasing participation in patch reviews, Karol Herbst, who maintained the Nouveau driver and the MMIO tracing mechanism (MMIOTRACE) working at Red Hat, has also announced his withdrawal. After their departure, there will still be two maintainers in the kernel supporting the Nouveau driver, who, according to Karol, are doing an excellent job. In […]
Yazi (Chinese: «鸭子» means «duck») is an incredibly fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking asynchronous input-output. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience. Yazi is distributed under the MIT license. Key features: 🚀 Full support for asynchronicity: all input-output operations are asynchronous, and CPU tasks are distributed across multiple threads, allowing for maximum […]
The new release of the Go language, version 1.24, comes six months after Go 1.23. Most changes affect the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release ensures the promise of compatibility with Go 1. Developers expect that nearly all Go programs will continue to compile and run as before. Changes in Go 1.24 now fully support generic type aliases: alias […]
The developers of the Serpent OS distribution have announced the renaming of the project to AerynOS and a rebranding effort. They plan to complete the migration of the infrastructure to the new name by March 17. It has been noted that the name Serpent OS was chosen hastily at the project's inception, without considering that the word 'serpent' carries negative connotations for some people (the tempted snake, a vengeful person). The developers have received numerous complaints about this unfortunate choice […]