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Mozilla has introduced a new product—Firefox Enterprise, a separate build of Firefox designed for enterprise use, providing enhanced capabilities for centralized management and oversight of employee actions. The Firefox Enterprise 158 build is based on the upcoming Firefox 158 release scheduled for this evening. Browser management on workstations is conducted through a web-based admin console that can be launched […]
After a year of development, the release of FreeType 2.15.0, a modular font engine providing a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data in various vector and raster formats, has been presented. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the FreeType BSD-like license. Among the changes: support for the fifth edition of the ISO Open Font format (ISO/IEC 14496-22:2026) has been added, ported with the help of AI […]
Corrective updates have been released for the GitLab collaborative development platform — versions 19.4.2, 19.3.4, and 19.2.8, addressing 24 vulnerabilities. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229) allows remote code execution on the server. This issue is caused by an integer overflow in the regular expression compilation code. An unauthenticated user can launch an attack by using a specially crafted regular expression in the CI/CD configuration. The vulnerabilities have been assigned a severity level […]
Canonical has released a beta version of the Myna speech recognition system and related text input voice tools, which can be integrated into Ubuntu. Pre-built packages are available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.10 for amd64 and amd64v3 architectures. It supports operation in GNOME environments that use the Wayland protocol. For speech recognition, there are options for […]
Recently identified critical vulnerabilities that allow root access to the system or remote code execution: 20 vulnerabilities in Apache httpd, including a buffer overflow in mod_vhost_alias (CVE-2026-63292), which potentially allows remote code execution by sending an HTTP request with an oversized Host HTTP header. This vulnerability occurs when a host name substitution specifier is specified in the VirtualDocumentRoot directive and the LimitRequestFieldSize limit is increased. […]
The release of the free cross-platform interpreter for classic adventures, ScummVM 2026.4.0, has taken place. It replaces executable files for games and allows many classic games to be played on platforms they were not originally designed for. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. A total of over 500 adventures can now be run, including games from companies like LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution Software, Cyan, and Sierra, such as Maniac […]
Linus Torvalds has prepared a set of patches for the memory management subsystem in the Linux kernel, implementing optimizations for reading small blocks of data from the page cache without atomically modifying the reference counter (refcount) in the folio structure. The commit message states that the changes, along with the related tests and draft notes, were created by the AI assistant Claude Code under Torvalds' supervision. The change […]
The release of the mobile platform LineageOS 24 has been announced, based on the Android 17 codebase and launched on the eve of the project's tenth anniversary, which will take place on December 24, 2026. The LineageOS 24 branch has achieved parity in functionality and stability with the 23.2 branch and is deemed ready for the first release. Builds have been prepared for 175 devices, 24 of which were not previously included in […]
The release of Ventoy 1.1.18 has been published, a tool designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program allows you to boot an OS from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without requiring the unpacking of the image or reformatting the drive. Simply copy the desired set of images to a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will enable the booting of operating systems contained within the images. In […]
The release of SQLite 3.54 has been announced, a lightweight database management system available as a shared library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restrictions for any purpose. The financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially formed consortium. Notable changes include optimizations that speed up the speedtest1 benchmark by approximately 4% compared to the previous version and […]
The release of Brython 3.15.0 (Browser Python) is now available, implementing the Python 3 programming language for web browsers, allowing Python to be used instead of JavaScript for developing web scripts. The Brython 3.15 branch ensures compatibility with CPython 3.15 and implements most of the new features of this release, including delayed module imports, frozendict and sentinel types, and the operators '*' and '**' for […]
The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, community-driven and providing certificates free of charge to all who wish, has warned of a reduction in the validity period of TLS certificates from 90 to 64 days. Starting February 10, 2027, all new and renewed certificates will be issued for 64 days, while the 90-day certificates issued before this date will continue to remain valid. In addition, on February 10, 2027, […]