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The release of the PorteuX 2.7 distribution, based on Slackware and developed under the influence of the Slax and Porteus projects, is now available. PorteuX features include pre-configured environments based on Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce desktop environments, hardware acceleration for multimedia file processing on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, and a Live mode booting in 3 seconds, […]
On June 17 and 19, releases 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 of the high-performance automatic speech recognition system whisper.cpp, which implements the Whisper model from OpenAI and is based on the machine learning tensor library GGML and the GGUF binary format, were made available. It includes the libwhisper library, demonstration examples, and console utilities: whisper-bench, whisper-cli, whisper-command, whisper-lsp, whisper-quantize, whisper-server, whisper-stream, whisper-vad-speech-segments, parakeet-cli, and parakeet-quantize. The projects are written in […]
On June 16, after nearly a year and a half of development, version 1.16 of pugixml was released — a fast cross-platform library for parsing and processing XML (MIT License). The library provides a DOM-like interface with features for navigating and modifying document nodes. XPath 1.0 is also supported alongside full Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE/LE), UTF-32 (BE/LE), and UCS-2) support, with automatic encoding conversions. It supports usage without […]
Kent Overstreet has released version 1.38.6 of the Bcachefs file system and announced the official removal of the experimental development tag from the project. Recently, the number of incoming reports of issues has decreased, and the identified bugs have become less serious and complex. The release includes two packages: bcachefs-kernel-dkms with a kernel module built using the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system, and bcachefs-tools […]
A minor release of the 'Alt Workstation K' operating system 11.4 is now available. The build is prepared for x86_64 based on kernel 6.12. Download the image from ftp.altlinux.org download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru In the new image, the KDE Plasma desktop environment has been updated to version 6.6 (Plasma 6.6, Gear 26.04, Frameworks 6.26): text recognition on screenshots is now available — OCR functionality in Spectacle; a new Plasma Keyboard on-screen keyboard for […]
The Raspberry Pi project has released a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution on 2026-06-18 (Raspbian). The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base and contains about 35 thousand packages in the repository. The desktop environment is based on a composite server labwc, using the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds are prepared for download: a slim version (537MB) for server systems, with a basic desktop […]
An update of the Linux distribution 'Alt Workstation K 11.4' has been published, offering the KDE desktop environment and aimed at office and home use. The build is prepared for the x86_64 architecture and is built on the ALT 11 platform. An installation ISO image (10.7 GB) and a separate Live build (6.4 GB) have been created for download. The downloaded version can be freely used only by individuals, in […]
A corrective release of Firefox 152.0.1 is available, which resolves issues that led to crashes on systems with Intel Raptor Lake microarchitecture processors. The problem arose due to a chip bug that caused incorrect handling of instructions generated for managing code caching functions in the JIT compiler written in C++. Notably, similar issues with Intel CPUs were reported a month ago […]
In JCE (Joomla Content Editor), one of the oldest and most popular extensions in the Joomla ecosystem, a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48907) has been fixed that allows importing one's profile without authentication. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to upload a profile that disables MIME type checking and implements the upload of PHP scripts to the server. There have been reports of attackers using this vulnerability to install webshells, providing remote access to the system. The vulnerability has been addressed in […]
Canonical has announced the Myna project — a new speech-to-text conversion system for Ubuntu Desktop. The project aims for built-in dictation: the user presses a hotkey, speaks, and the recognized text appears in the active application. The announcement emphasizes that Myna should feel like a natural part of the Ubuntu desktop while also respecting user privacy. A list of supported languages […]
Qt Creator 20 has been released — the new version of the IDE for developing applications using Qt, C++, QML, and related technologies. In its official announcement, Qt Company highlights key features including support for AI coding agents, a new Zen Mode, integration with the GN build system, and various improvements for CMake, QML, Android, iOS, and remote development on Linux. The main change in this release is […]
Canonical has tightened the rules for forming releases of the official editions of Ubuntu, which include Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. These changes have been introduced to confirm the readiness of editions for the final release, which will now only be permitted if the beta version is successfully built on schedule. Meanwhile, […]