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The latest release of the Linux kernel 6.11 is out, featuring several significant changes, the most important of which include: Added support for atomic block-level write operations where either the entire specified set of blocks is written to the storage or none of the blocks are. This can prevent situations where, after a hardware failure or for some other reason, only a portion of the blocks is written, while in another […]
On September 14, a patch release 3.7.5 of the libarchive library was made, fixing many bugs and vulnerabilities. The library and accompanying utilities are written in C and distributed under the New BSD license. Vulnerability fixes: multiple vulnerabilities identified through Microsoft SAST; cpio: possible (fuzz test) overflow of signed 64-bit intermediate values gid/uid/size/ino when parsing AFIO archive files (a type of CPIO); lzop: preventing integer […]
The president of the C++ Alliance announced work on a specification that adds memory safety extensions to the C++ language, reminiscent of features implemented in Rust. Sean Baxter, author of the experimental C++ compiler Circle, which develops ideas for enhancing C++ code security on the compiler side without using garbage collection, has been engaged for the project […].
Amazon has announced the establishment of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, governed by the Linux Foundation, which will oversee further development of the OpenSearch project, a fork of the Elasticsearch data search, analysis, and storage platform, along with the Kibana web interface. It is noted that transitioning OpenSearch to an independent neutral platform, not controlled by individual companies, will attract new contributors to the development and enhance the project's appeal […].
After 6 months of development, the release of FreeBSD 13.4 has been published, marking the first release formed under the updated development cycle that includes interim releases every six months. Installation images for FreeBSD 13.4 have been created for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) have been prepared […].
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of Linux kernel 6.11. Among the most notable changes are: support for atomic block-level write operations, support for bind() and listen() operations in io_uring, a new mechanism for locking software interrupt handlers, the ability to write to memory-mapped executable files, support for writing block device drivers in Rust, optimization of getrandom() calls, and a new […].
On September 10, the release of Unicode character encoding standard 16.0 took place. This version added 5,185 new characters, including: 3,995 additional Egyptian hieroglyphs; seven new scripts (Tulu, Albanian Todri, Garay (Senegal), Sunwar Genticha, Gurung, Kirat, and Olonali); seven new emoji symbols; over 700 characters from obsolete computing. Currently, the standard contains 154,998 characters and 168 scripts […]
The release of Nextcloud Hub 9 has been announced, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration among enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. Simultaneously, the underlying cloud platform, Nextcloud 30, has been published, enabling the deployment of a cloud storage system with synchronization and data sharing capabilities, allowing viewing and editing data from any device anywhere on the network (with […]
On September 13, without fanfare or drumroll, the latest, fifth beta version of Haiku OS was released. However, its compatibility with BeOS R5 now remains only within the framework of 32-bit builds. Currently, the hardware requirements are traditionally modest — Minimum (32-bit): Intel Pentium II, AMD Athlon; 384MB of RAM; 800×600 screen; 3GB on disk. Recommended (64-bit): Intel Core i3, AMD […]
The developers of Linux Mint have decided to delve into the system's core elements and announced plans to create their own versions of some components of the APT package management system, which underlies Debian and Ubuntu. Project leader Clement Lefebvre detailed the reasons for this step in the August update. Many tools and libraries of APT, he said, were developed more than ten […]
After one and a half years of development, the fifth beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system has been published. Initially, the project was created in response to the closure of the BeOS OS and developed under the name OpenBeOS, but was renamed in 2004 due to trademark issues related to the use of the name BeOS. Several bootable Live images (x86, x86-64 1.4 GB) have been prepared to evaluate the performance of the new release. […]
A new version of Ardour has been released — a free digital audio workstation. Key innovations include the ability to change the position of tracks in the project by simply dragging with the mouse; a reduction in the number of rulers: now there is only one ruler for all types of ranges (range, loop range, punch range) and only one ruler for all types of locations (location marker, arrangement, cue, cd track marker); recording has been added […]