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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API—Wine 9.17—has been published. Since the release of 9.16, 29 bug reports have been closed and 206 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Support for scaling window surfaces on high-density pixel (High DPI) displays has been implemented. The built-in Vkd3d package with the Direct3D 12 implementation has been updated to version 1.13. The Wine Mono engine has […]
Security researchers from NinjaLab have developed a side-channel attack technique that allows for the cloning of ECDSA keys stored in cryptographic tokens such as YubiKey 5 and other devices using the Infineon cryptographic library. The attack has been codenamed EUCLEAK and, in addition to tokens with Infineon SLE78 chips, like YubiKey 5, it can also be applied to many other systems with microcontrollers […]
The creator of the unique distribution Adelie Linux, which uses the standard C library Musl, the OpenRC initialization system, and the APK package manager, announced the successful porting of the system manager systemd for use with the Musl library. Although the implementation is in its initial stages, it is already quite stable and demonstrates a threefold reduction in boot time compared to using OpenRC. Initially, systemd supports operation […]
The alpha version 0.70.0 of the open engine Medal of Honor - OpenMoHAA has been released. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform engine with open source code, fully compatible with the original Medal of Honor. The OpenMoHAA project is based on the source code of ioquake3, as the original Medal of Honor used the Id Tech 3 engine (that is, the engine from Quake 3) as its base. What […]
The Q4OS 5.6 distribution has been released, based on the Debian package base and featuring the KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktop environments (continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x codebase). Both user environments can coexist simultaneously in one system, allowing users to switch between them. The distribution is positioned as low on hardware demands while offering a classic desktop layout. Size […]
A Fedora developer at Red Hat has introduced the SyncStar toolkit, which allows users to deploy services for writing operating system installations to USB drives of their choice. The primary purpose of SyncStar is to create kiosks and information stands that can be used at technical conferences and exhibitions to record bootable distributions of various operating systems onto USB drives for participants. The project's code is written […]
The release of QEMU 9.1 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run programs compiled for one hardware platform on a system with an entirely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's code execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a hardware system due to direct instruction execution on the CPU and the involvement of […]
The Ergo Framework is an implementation of ideas, technologies, and design patterns from the Erlang world in the Go programming language. It is built on the actor model, network transparency, and a set of ready-made components for development. This significantly simplifies the creation of complex and distributed solutions while ensuring a high level of reliability and performance. This version marks an important milestone in the development of Ergo […]
After a month of development, version 14.0.7 of the full-text search engine and columnar database management system Groonga has been released. Groonga is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license. The project provides a library and console utilities. Notable related projects include Mroonga and PGroonga – integrations of Groonga into MySQL and PostgreSQL, respectively. Change list: in the normalizer […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.19 suite of internet applications has occurred, combining a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom news feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor (Composer) into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of web development tools (DOM Inspector), and the Lightning calendar and task manager. The new release carries fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
After nine months of development, a stable release of the composite server Weston 14.0 has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol integration in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for utilizing Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, and televisions […]
The web browser Firefox 130 has been released, and updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.15.0 and 128.2.0 — have been prepared. The Firefox 131 branch has moved to the beta testing stage, with the release scheduled for October 1. Key innovations in Firefox 130 include: machine translation capability for selected text snippets on a page after executing the full-page translation operation (i.e. […]