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Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is responsible for maintaining the stable and 'staging' branches of the Linux kernel, reported that in the first six months of 2026, 2,308 vulnerabilities were identified in the Linux kernel, each assigned separate CVE identifiers. Thus, the Linux kernel rose from second to first place in the number of assigned CVE identifiers among software producers. This figure is not objective, as […]
The Fedora project governing board (Fedora Council) announced the suspension of the Community Initiatives process, which was created to implement large long-term projects in the distribution that do not fit within the six-month cycle of Fedora Linux release preparation. It was expected that Community Initiatives would focus community efforts on realizing major ideas and also allow for the necessary resources and support from the governing board. […]
Vulnerabilities (CVE not assigned) have been identified in the implementation of the internal command 'guix substitute' in the Guix package manager, which is automatically invoked by the background process guix-daemon during package installation operations. This command is used to download already built binary packages from external servers, checking their integrity using a digital signature. The most dangerous vulnerability allows remote code execution on the user's system […]
Erin Catto, the creator of the Box2D project, announced the development of a new physics simulation engine called Box3D, which is a fork of Box2D, having the same architecture but redesigned and expanded for use in three-dimensional games. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. It supports builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The Box3D engine was created in […]
During the porting of the cryptsetup-suspend tools for NixOS, an error was discovered in the disk encryption subsystem LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup), which caused the encryption key clearance from RAM to fail when the system entered sleep mode starting from Linux kernel 6.9 (the problematic commit) released in May 2024. The cryptsetup-suspend tool is used in Debian for automatic locking […]
Qualcomm has unveiled Qualcomm Linux 2.0, a Linux distribution that provides a software stack optimized for Qualcomm Dragonwing IoT platforms. The project implements a unified distribution that enables rapid development of solutions for various Qualcomm SoCs such as QCS5430, QCS6490, IQ-8275, IQ-9075, and IQ-615. Qualcomm Linux is based on tools and meta-packages from the Yocto and OpenEmbedded projects, enhanced with patches, drivers, firmware, packages […]
A corrective release of the OpenWrt 25.12.5 distribution has been released, developed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports over 2200 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. Such builds allow for the formation of ready-to-use firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready builds have been published for 41 target platforms. Among […]
In the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release scheduled for fall 2026, the use of shadow stack is planned to be enabled by default on x86_64 systems to block exploits that overwrite the return address of functions in the event of a stack buffer overflow. Protection is intended to be activated for all applications and libraries compiled with gcc (C, C++) and clang (C, C++) compilers […]
The lightweight Linux distribution ArchBang 010726 has been released, based on the developments of Arch Linux and providing a user interface based on the composite manager MangoWM. The distribution offers a continuous release cycle, allowing users to always work with the latest versions of programs from the Arch Linux repositories. The size of the ISO image is 1.4 GB. In the new version, the default use of the lightweight composite manager MangoWM has been implemented […]
The release of Precizer 0.16.0 has been published, a command-line utility designed to verify the integrity of large file trees and detect discrepancies after data synchronization. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready builds have previously been available for Linux and macOS, and a key change in the new release is the experimental support for Windows. The Precizer project has been developing for over two years […]
By popular demand from the community, ALT Mobile has expanded its list of supported devices with affordable smartphones featuring the Snapdragon 845: OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T. The porting work was completed fairly quickly thanks to the efforts of Vasily Doylov (neko@) — the maintainer of packages and some devices for postmarketOS, a member of the ALT Gnome Development team, who recently began the Join process in ALT Linux […]
Alexey Milovidov, co-founder of the ClickHouse DBMS, with the assistance of AI assistant Claude, published a ray tracing system fully implemented in SQL. Rendering with path tracing-based lighting simulation has been implemented as a single SQL query without user-defined functions (UDF) and without connecting external code. For graphics output, ClickHouse's ability to save query results in PNG format is utilized. The project is fully […]