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OpenSSH 9.9 release with support for the post-quantum encryption algorithm ML-KEM.

The release of OpenSSH 9.9, an open implementation of the client and server for operation over SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, has been announced. Major changes include: Support for the hybrid key exchange algorithm 'mlkem768x25519-sha256' has been added to ssh and sshd. This algorithm is resistant to quantum computer attacks and represents a combination of X25519 ECDH and the ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) algorithm, which was recently standardized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology […]

Release of Zorin OS 17.2, a distribution for users accustomed to Windows or macOS

After 6 months of development, the release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 17.2, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 package base, has been presented. The target audience for this distribution is beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and it includes a collection of applications similar to those that […]

Apache NetBeans 23

The latest release of Apache NetBeans has been introduced – an integrated development environment that supports programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and others. This IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. In this release: improved support for Gradle and Maven build systems; enhanced support for Java and PHP languages; and much more. Download Source: linux.org.ru

fastfetch 2.25

Version 2.25.0 of the cross-platform console utilities fastfetch and flashfetch has been released, written in C and distributed under the MIT license. These utilities are designed to display system information. They support Linux, Android, FreeBSD, macOS, SunOS, and Windows 7+. Unlike fastfetch, flashfetch does not support advanced information display features. Changelog: added detection for the number of Moore GPU cores; cache size of […]

Valve has released Proton 9.0-3, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 9.0-3, based on the Wine codebase and aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications developed for Windows on Linux, presented in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows for the direct launch of gaming applications on the Linux Steam client that are provided exclusively for Windows. The package includes […]

Vulnerability in Ruby-SAML allowing authentication bypass in GitLab

Corrective updates for the GitLab collaborative development platform have been released – versions 17.3.3, 17.2.6, and 17.1.8, which fix a critical vulnerability allowing SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication bypass. The issue is caused by a vulnerability (CVE-2024-45409) in the Ruby libraries ruby-saml and omniauth-saml, which implement the client side of SAML authorization. The vulnerabilities have been assigned the maximum danger level of 10 out of 10. The issue has been resolved in the updates of the packages […]

Release of the database anonymization tool nxs-data-anonymizer 1.11.0

The nxs-data-anonymizer 1.11.0 has been released – a tool for anonymizing PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB/Percona database dumps. This tool is written in Go and is released under the Apache License 2.0. It can be used through unnamed pipes in the command line to redirect a dump from the source database directly to the target database with the necessary transformations. Depending on the type of entities in the settings […]

Release of the GNOME 47 desktop environment

After six months of development, the GNOME 47 desktop environment has been released. For a quick assessment of GNOME 47's capabilities, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are available. GNOME 47 is also included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. In this release: Support for accent color customization has been added, […]

SRELL 4.056 - ECMAScript-compliant regular expressions library

On September 11, the release of version 4.056 of the C++ SRELL (Std::RegEx-Like Library) library was announced, implementing ECMAScript-compatible regular expressions. Change list: Support for Unicode 16.0.0; other minor changes. Library features: header-only; ECMAScript-compatible regular expressions; std::regex-like design; support for char8_t, char16_t, and char32_t types for C++11 and later standards. More detailed description is available on the author's website. Change history: English/Japanese. Permanent […]

The PanVK Vulkan driver now supports ARM GPUs based on the V10 architecture.

Collabora announced the implementation of ARM Mali GPU support based on the V10 microarchitecture in the PanVK driver, which provides support for the Vulkan graphics API. The changes, which have already been accepted into the main branch of the Mesa project, enable the use of open drivers on systems with ARM Mali-G610 and Mali-G310 GPUs. However, it is noted that the support is still quite raw, as the driver itself […]

Release of Java SE 23 and OpenJDK 23

After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 23 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 23), with the open project OpenJDK being used as the reference implementation. Aside from the removal of some deprecated features, Java SE 23 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform—most previously written Java projects will run without changes under […]

An engineer from AMD has proposed simplifying CPU vulnerability lock management in the Linux kernel.

Since the number of support modes in the Linux kernel for mitigating CPU vulnerabilities has reached 15, and enumerating all vulnerabilities in the kernel command line has become quite complex, a kernel developer from AMD has suggested transitioning from configuring locks for specific vulnerabilities to selecting locks for attack vectors. The locking methods are proposed to be activated based on the type of isolation violation: between user […]

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