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Release of Solus 4.6 Distribution

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The release of the Linux distribution Solus 4.6 has been published, which is not based on packages from other distributions and develops its own installer, package manager, and configurator. Previously, the Budgie desktop was part of the distribution, but it has now been spun off into an independent project. The next branch, Solus 5, is set to be developed using the technologies of the SerpentOS distribution. The project's development code is distributed under the GPLv2 license, using programming languages […]

Firefox 131.0.3 update

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A corrective release of Firefox 131.0.3 is available, which addresses a vulnerability and resolves several issues: A vulnerability (CVE-2024-9936) caused by undefined behavior in the implementation of the DOM node cache related to text selection on a page has been fixed. This vulnerability is marked as critical and can lead to crashes when handling certain content. Issues that caused the Bill Pay service to cease functioning have been resolved […]

The second experimental build of Firefox for Haiku OS

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A new version of the Firefox port for the Haiku operating system is available for testing, which operates relatively stably and even allows browsing some websites. However, this build has its share of issues, such as the inability to copy and paste text via the clipboard, some JavaScript scripts running very slowly, and pop-ups not displaying correctly upon the first opening […]

Google is experimenting with the possibility of running Linux applications on Android

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Google has added to the codebase of the Android platform a Terminal application that allows you to launch a terminal emulator with access to a full Linux environment running in a virtual machine. The virtualization functionality is developed as part of the Ferrochrome project and implies running a guest system with Debian GNU/Linux 12. The virtualization framework AVF (Android Virtualization Framework), implemented in Android 13, is used for this purpose […]

Release of the Qt 6.8 framework

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The Qt Company has released version 6.8 of the Qt framework, continuing efforts to stabilize and enhance the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.8 offers support for platforms including Windows 10+, macOS 12+, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, openSUSE 15.5, SUSE 15 SP5, RHEL 8.8/9.2, Debian 11.6), iOS 16+, Android 9+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, and QNX. The source […]

WordPress owners replaced the ACF plugin with their fork, which has 2 million installations.

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The conflict that began in September between Automattic and WP Engine has taken an unexpected turn — Automattic, which oversees the development of the WordPress platform and the official directory of plugins on WordPress.org, has announced the creation of a fork of one of the most popular plugins — ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), developed by WP Engine, which has over 2 million installations and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Developers have expressed outrage […]

Release of Distrobox 1.8, a tool for nested distribution launches

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The Distrobox 1.8 toolkit has been released, allowing you to quickly install and run any Linux distribution in a container and ensure its integration with the main system. The project code is written in Shell and distributed under the GPLv3 license. This project provides an overlay over Docker, Podman, or Lilipod and is characterized by maximum simplification of operating and integrating the launched environment with the rest of the system. To create an environment with […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.38

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The wayland-protocols package version 1.38 has been released, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the basic Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases — development, testing, and stabilization. After the development phase (unstable category) is completed, the protocol is moved to the staging branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols set, while […]

Vulnerabilities in Libarchive leading to memory corruption

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In the Libarchive library, which provides functions for working with various archive formats and compressed files, vulnerabilities have been identified that lead to buffer overflows when processing specially crafted RAR format archives. The vulnerabilities are present in the functions execute_filter_audio (CVE-2024-48957) and execute_filter_delta (CVE-2024-48958), caused by the lack of checks to ensure that the 'src' block does not overlap with the 'dst' block in corrupted archives. The vulnerabilities have been addressed […]

Release of package manager RPM 4.20 and start of development of RPM 6

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After a year of development, the RPM package manager 4.20.0 has been released. The RPM4 project is developed by Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. A significant branch, RPM 6, is expected to be published next year, featuring a new format […]

Release of Ubuntu 24.10 and official editions with other DEs

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The new release of Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' is an interim version with a 9-month support period, announced to be supported until July 2025. Alongside Ubuntu, official editions with other desktop environments have been released, with the most interesting being Kubuntu 24.10, which has switched to KDE Plasma 6 technologies (as shown in the screenshot). Key changes for Ubuntu include an updated desktop to GNOME 47 […]

Microsoft has started introducing components of the Hyper-V host environment into the Linux kernel

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Microsoft has proposed a first series of patches for inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel related to its operation as a host environment (Dom0, root partition) for the Hyper-V hypervisor. The host environment is responsible for managing the hypervisor, organizing the boot of guest systems, allocating resources, and ensuring communication between virtual machines and the hardware. Initially, the possibility of using Linux as a host environment for the Hyper-V virtualization system was […]

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