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GNU Shepherd system manager version 1.0.0 has been released.

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The system manager GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 (formerly dmd) has been introduced, combining the capabilities of an initialization system with tools for managing system services. It is noted that the designation of version 1.0 after 21 years of development marks the project’s readiness and its compliance with the functional requirements of modern initialization systems and service managers. The project is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System as an alternative to the initialization system […]

The Cloudberry project, a developing fork of the Greenplum DBMS, has been accepted into the Apache incubator.

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The Apache Software Foundation has taken under its wing the Cloudberry project, which develops a fork of the distributed database Greenplum, which after VMware's acquisition by Broadcom was turned into a closed product. The Cloudberry project was created by the original developers of Greenplum and is based on the latest version of Greenplum with open source code. After the fork, the project was adapted for use with the latest releases of PostgreSQL and enhanced […]

The Firefox port has been accepted into the official repository of the Haiku OS.

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A group of developers from the Haiku OS has prepared and published the first public port of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Joint efforts during the porting process led to changes in both the core system and other used ports, such as the Wayland layer for Haiku, developed by x512. Due to a lack of response from Mozilla, which prohibits the use of its trademarks […]

Let's Encrypt stops supporting the OCSP protocol for checking revoked certificates.

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The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, community-controlled and offering certificates free of charge to anyone, has decided to discontinue support for the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), used for checking certificate revocation. Instead of OCSP, it is recommended to use Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL), published by Let’s Encrypt starting in 2022. On May 7, 2025, Let’s Encrypt […]

Fourth Alpha Release of the COSMIC Desktop Environment

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System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has introduced the fourth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC have been made available for testing, built on top of the alpha builds for the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 release for systems with NVIDIA (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB) GPUs. Also […]

Vulnerabilities Allowing Image Replacement and Code Execution on ASU Servers in the OpenWrt Project

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Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-54143) have been identified in the ASU (Attended SysUpgrade) toolkit developed by the OpenWrt project, which could compromise build artifacts distributed via the sysupgrade.openwrt.org service or third-party ASU servers, enabling attackers to install modified firmware images on user systems that use the "attended upgrade" mode through the web interface selector.openwrt.org or the command-line attended.sysupgrade tool. An attacker needs only to send […]

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux Distribution 3.0.20241203

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Microsoft has released an update for Azure Linux distribution 3.0.20241203. This distribution is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project's proprietary developments are distributed under the MIT license. Package builds are created for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The installation image size is 750 MB. Among the changes in the new version: The iptables packet filter has been transitioned […]

Release of Manjaro Linux 24.2

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The release of Manjaro Linux 24.2 has been published, built on the Arch Linux base and targeted at beginner users. This distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro is available as live images with graphical environments KDE (3.9 GB), GNOME (3.8 GB), and Xfce (3.5 GB), built […]

A Bug in the GitHub Actions Handler Led to the Release of Malicious Ultralytics Releases

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Attackers were able to execute code with GitHub Actions handler permissions in the Ultralytics Python library repository, which is used for computer vision tasks such as object detection in images and image segmentation. After gaining access to the repository, the attackers published several new releases of Ultralytics in the PyPI directory, which contained malicious changes for cryptocurrency mining. In the last month, the Ultralytics library was downloaded […]

Libreboot 20241206 release available for download

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The release of the Libreboot 20241206 firmware has been announced, which has achieved stable release status, focused on refining functionalities added in experimental releases. The project develops a workable build of the Coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and other hardware components, minimizing binary blobs. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that allows […]

Wine 10 Release Candidate. Wine-staging 10.0-rc1 release

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Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 10.0, an open implementation of the WinAPI. The codebase has been frozen ahead of the release expected in the second half of January. Compared to the Wine 9.22 release, 17 bug reports have been closed and 311 changes made. Notable changes include: an initial version of the Bluetooth device driver added, and the integrated Vkd3d package with implementation […]

Tribler 8.0.6

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Tribler 8.0.6 has been quietly released — an open-source BitTorrent client (GPLv3), developed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). The main feature of Tribler is its built-in anonymization system for downloads, using its own TOR-like network. This release includes a plethora of long-awaited changes: complete removal of the dependency on Qt, replaced by a new web interface. The anonymization engine has been rewritten in Rust, increasing download speeds by 2–3 times. Dark/Light […]

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