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On January 9, after three months of development, the release of version 3.0.12 of the fast cross-platform library Notcurses was announced. It is designed for creating text user interfaces, written in C and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It includes bindings for C++ (C++17 standard). Optional integration with OpenImageIO, FFmpeg, libgpm, and libqrcodegen is also supported. Changelog: Fixed bugs when using the library […]
The team of developers behind the Qwen language models has launched a web version of the chat, where users can try out their models, which were previously available for download and use by anyone, such as from the Qwen AI site or Hugging Face. For example, there is a model with 72 billion parameters. Qwen is developed by the Chinese company Alibaba Cloud. Regarding the chat - here are its features: it supports Russian […]
In the upcoming Fedora 42 release, scheduled for late April, it is proposed to allow maintainers to include additional versions of executables in packages built with optimizations for x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4 microarchitectures. It is noted that Fedora continues to build packages for the x86-64-v1 architecture, while CentOS uses x86-64-v2 architecture for builds, and RHEL 10 uses x86-64-v3. In most cases […]
On January 4, after more than two years of development, the stable release of the cross-platform 2D CAD LibreCAD version 2.2.1 was announced. It is written in C++ using the Qt framework and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license. Key changes include: Added experimental parabolic creation. Support for right-to-left writing systems has been added (further work is required on numbers). The display of the hatch area in the dialog has been added […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of the 'Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers' initiative, providing a neutral platform for industry leaders, the academic community, developers, and open-source advocates to collaboratively work on projects related to the Chromium browser engine. Founding members include Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera. The initiative aims to maintain the ecosystem that has developed around the Chromium engine and stimulate collaboration […]
System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has unveiled the fifth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the older COSMIC based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC are available for testing, built on top of the alpha builds of the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution for systems with NVIDIA (2.9 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.5 GB) GPUs. Also […]
After two and a half years of development, a new stable version of the Flatpak toolkit 1.16 has been released, providing a system for building self-contained packages independent of specific Linux distributions and running in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Flatpak package execution support is provided for Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Linux Mint, Alt Linux, and Ubuntu. Packages with Flatpak […]
On January 9, version 2.34.0 of the cross-platform console utilities fastfetch and flashfetch was released, written in C and distributed under the MIT license. These utilities are designed to output system information similar to neofetch. They support Linux, Android, FreeBSD, macOS, SunOS, and Windows 7+. Unlike fastfetch, flashfetch does not support extended information output capabilities, profiles, and more. Change log: […]
The specialized distribution Tails 6.11 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been released, developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop environment, and is designed for anonymous internet access using the Tor toolkit. By default, all connections except traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. For storing user […]
After eight months of development, version 0.38 of the console utility nwipe has been released, designed for securely wiping the contents of disks using various wiping methods and pseudorandom number generators. It can wipe a single disk or multiple disks simultaneously. The utility is written in C using the ncurses library for the text interface and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. Change log […]
The release of the free document layout package Scribus 1.6.3 has been announced. The package provides tools for professional layout of printed materials, includes tools for generating PDF, and supports working with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is written using the Qt toolkit and is released under the GPLv2+ license. Ready binary builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
Information has been revealed about a vulnerability (CVE-2024-5594) in the OpenVPN package for creating virtual private networks, which can lead to arbitrary data being injected into third-party executable files or plugins in the system on the other side of the connection. The vulnerability is caused by the lack of checking for null bytes and invalid characters when processing control messages such as PUSH_REPLY. The issue has been resolved in OpenVPN versions 2.5.11 […]