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The release of the NetBSD 10.2 operating system has been published, classified as a corrective update, and mainly includes fixes for issues and vulnerabilities identified since the release of NetBSD 10.1 in December 2024. The NetBSD 10 branch will be supported until the release of NetBSD 12.0. Installation images sized at 639 MB are prepared for download, available in builds for 57 system architectures and […]
Oracle has released Solaris 11.4 SRU 95 (Support Repository Update), which includes a series of significant changes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the suggested fixes in the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. Users can also take advantage of the free Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment) edition, developed using a continuous release model for new […]
The release of the multimedia player VLC 3.0.24 has been announced. The code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. More than 130 security issues have been fixed in VLC and its built-in libraries, caused by buffer overflows, memory access after it has been freed, integer overflows, and double freeing of memory (details are not disclosed yet). Some vulnerabilities may be exploited when processing specially […]
Valve has announced the inclusion of the Pyrowave video codec in the beta version of the Steam client, optimized for low-latency video streaming in high-bandwidth networks. The codec has been added as an option in the Steam Remote Play service, allowing broadcasting of gameplay or streaming output to your system while playing on other devices. In the Linux version of Steam […]
In the past, Google or Yandex would present a list of links, but now search engines are increasingly responding with direct answers. They gather information from several sources to provide a concise explanation, include links, and reduce the chances of clicks for website owners. Unpleasant? Indeed. For those who have invested years in traditional search engine optimization, this means adapting is necessary. But […]
The mail client Convey has been released, continuing the development of the Geary project, which has not seen new versions since May 2024. The most notable difference from Geary is the switch to GTK4 and libadwaita libraries. The code is written in Vala and is distributed under the LGPL license. Among the changes: A Microsoft Graph backend has been added for working with Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts. […]
The release of the lightweight MX Linux 25.3 distribution has been announced, created through the collaborative efforts of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. This release is based on a Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. Users can choose between the sysVinit and systemd initialization systems. Custom tools for system configuration and deployment are included. […]
The release of GNU Wget2 2.3.0 has been announced, developing a completely rewritten and revamped version of the program for automating recursive content downloads, GNU Wget. Wget2 offers a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows the use of available functionality through the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, and enables downloading only changed data, with the ability to save data with […]
Several recently discovered critical vulnerabilities allow root access in the system or enable remote code execution. Details have been revealed about four vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that enable an unprivileged local user to execute code with root privileges. The issues have been addressed in the Linux kernel updates 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, and 7.2.4. Exploits have been prepared for all vulnerabilities, demonstrating their functionality […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.18 has been published. Since the release of 11.17, 44 bug reports have been closed and 380 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the implementation of functions PsGetThreadProcess, PsGetProcessPeb, PsGetContextThread, PsReferencePrimaryToken, MmGetPhysicalMemoryRanges, SeLocateProcessImageName, MmGetVirtualForPhysical, KeCapturePersistentThreadState, PsDereferencePrimaryToken, and PsGetProcessImageFileName in the NT kernel simulation layer (ntoskrnl.exe), necessary for the proper support of device drivers. The updates for the language […]
The release of the jemalloc 5.4.0 memory management library has been introduced, offering an alternative implementation of malloc functions optimized to reduce fragmentation and operate on multiprocessor systems. To address locking issues on multicore systems, jemalloc uses an isolated memory allocation area for each CPU core, enabling linear scalability as the number of threads increases. In June 2025, the author […]
The release of the MariaDB 13.0.2 database management system has been introduced, marked as the first stable release of the 13.0 branch. The MariaDB 13.0 branch is categorized as rolling releases, continuing to develop functionality gradually and supported until a stable release of the next branch. At the same time, the MariaDB 13.1.1 release is available, which has the status of a release candidate. The MariaDB project develops a fork of MySQL that maintains backward compatibility and features the integration of additional […]