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The AlmaLinux 9.5 distribution is now available, synchronized with the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in bootable (1 GB), minimal (2 GB), and full (10 GB) formats. Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later […]
Thirteen years after the release of the 1.3 branch, the lightweight cross-platform graphical toolkit FLTK 1.4.0 (Fast Light Toolkit) has been released. FLTK is written in C++ and is distributed under the LGPLv2 license. The FLTK 1.4 branch is marked as backward compatible with 1.3.x releases, meaning that no code changes are required when transitioning to FLTK 1.4, but it is necessary […]
The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 24.10.1 has been announced, based on FreeBSD 14-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. Additionally, unofficial builds with Xfce are created by the community. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. It supports both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images are prepared for the architecture […]
Significant changes: The Linux-RT patchset for building real-time systems has been officially integrated into the kernel codebase alongside the latest changes to the printk() function. The ability to dynamically load third-party CPU schedulers as BPF programs has been added. The ring buffer now allows records to be preserved across reboots. The kernel can now work with devices where the block size exceeds the memory page size. The system […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released kernel version 6.12. Among the most notable changes are: the capability to enable Realtime mode, sched_ext for creating CPU schedulers via eBPF, QR code output during fault conditions, Device Memory TCP mechanism, SCHED_DEADLINE server resource reservation mechanism, improvements to the EEVDF task scheduler, and the IPE module for defining integrity policies. A total of 14,607 […]
The release of the Archinstall 3.0 installer has been published, which has been included as an option in the Arch Linux installation ISO images since April 2021. Archinstall operates in console mode and can be used instead of the default manual installation mode of the distribution. The Archinstall code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Archinstall provides both a dialog (guided) and an automated operating mode. […]
The developers of the OpenWrt distribution, focused on use in various network devices such as routers, switches, and access points, have announced a switch to the APK package manager, developed by the Alpine project. In the November snapshots based on the still-developing main branch of OpenWrt, the previously used opkg package manager has already been replaced with the apk tool. The testing branch of OpenWrt 24.10 still continues […]
Google has released the web browser Chrome 131. At the same time, the stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a notification system in case of crashes, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google API, and the transfer of […]
Correction updates have been issued for all supported branches of PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21, which fix 35 bugs and address 3 vulnerabilities — one critical and two non-critical. It has also been announced that support for branch PostgreSQL 12 will cease, and updates for it will no longer be formed. The critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-10979) has been assigned a danger level of 8.8 out of 10, […]
After three years of development, a set of specifications for OpenMP 6.0 (Open Multi-Processing) has been released, defining the API and methods for using parallel programming techniques for C, C++, and Fortran languages on multicore and hybrid (CPU+GPU/DSP) systems with shared memory and vectorization blocks (SIMD). It is expected that initial support for some features of OpenMP 6.0 will be included in the LLVM/Clang 20 and GCC releases […]
The developers of the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index) have announced the implementation of digital attestation support for verifying the authenticity of published packages, which replaces PGP signature verification. The key difference in attestation is that the package publication is certified not by the developer, but by a third party (the package index) after confirming the authenticity of the publication through an external OpenID Connect provider (for example, after verification, […]
Microsoft has released the open-source .NET 9 platform, created by unifying the .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Mono products. With .NET 9, you can develop cross-platform applications for browsers, cloud systems, desktops, IoT devices, and mobile platforms using a single set of libraries and a unified build process, regardless of the application type. The .NET SDK 9 and .NET Runtime 9 builds […]