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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 […]
The latest version of ZLUDA has been released — a compatibility layer for parallel computing on non-Nvidia graphics processors, aimed at full CUDA compatibility. It corresponds to CUDA version 13.1. Currently, only AMD is supported (ROCm version up to 7.2), with plans for Intel support as well. It is written in Rust. Initial support is claimed for operating the PhysX physics engine and the 3D editor Blender over ZLUDA. About the name. Cuda in Polish — […]
System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC desktop environment version 1.2.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.2.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under GPLv3 (for applications) and MPL-2.0 (for libraries). COSMIC is evolving as a universal […]
The second alpha release of the Pidgin 3.0 instant messaging client (2.96) has been introduced. This release is noted as still not ready for everyday use. Builds are prepared in Flatpak format and are available in the beta repository on Flathub. The Pidgin 3 branch has been under development since 2011, after three years of discussions at the conceptual and idea levels prior to that. Pidgin 3 marks a transition […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system, version 7.2.12, which includes 3 changes. In the additions for host environments running Linux, a problem that caused a kernel crash leading to a kernel Panic or system freeze during the launch of a virtual machine has been fixed. The freeze occurs when using VirtualBox 7.2.10 by users of Debian 13, Arch Linux, Linux […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.55 has been announced. Key changes include the default inclusion of a Rust build, implementation of the fsmonitor process for Linux, a new incremental MIDX index repacking strategy, the git history fixup command for correcting commits, optimization of object availability bitmap generation, support for parallel execution of hooks, and the git format-rev command. Git code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. By […]
Heather VanCura, Vice President of Oracle responsible for community engagement, has presented the second phase of the initiative to strengthen ties with the community and accelerate MySQL development. While the first phase focused on increasing transparency in processes and engaging the community in shaping the MySQL development roadmap, the second phase will concentrate on involving representatives from the community in development. Among […]
Andrzej Janik presented the release of ZLUDA 6, an open-source implementation of CUDA technology. The project aims to enable unmodified CUDA applications to run on GPU systems other than NVIDIA's, achieving performance close to that of applications executed without layers. The project's code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. ZLUDA 6 has become […]
The release of the distributed source code management system Git 2.55 has been announced. Among the key changes are the inclusion of Rust builds by default, the implementation of fsmonitor for Linux, a new strategy for repacking the incremental MIDX index, the 'git history fixup' command for fixing commits, optimizations for generating object availability bitmap, support for parallel execution of hooks, and the 'git format-rev' command. The Git code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. By […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.12 — has been published. Since the release of 11.11, 27 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. The most significant changes include the transfer of the libswresample (audio resampling) and libswscale (image scaling and pixel format conversion) libraries from FFmpeg into Wine. Previously transferred libraries have been updated to FFmpeg release 8.1.1. […]
The release (1.02) of the Book-Like CMS 'Froggy-BLC', which operates on files without a database, has taken place. In this release: A custom implementation of the 'p' tag is used — 'rich-paragraph role=paragraph' (HTML5). This is necessary for supporting block elements within paragraphs, especially when CKEditor-4 automatically places 'p' tags everywhere. Four types of vulnerabilities have been addressed. Work is underway on code de-obfuscation, with significant progress already made. […]
Microsoft has announced the beginning of testing for a system to run Linux containers on Windows, implemented using the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) layer. The toolkit provides a standard command-line interface wslc and an API for creating, deploying, and running Linux-based containers from the Windows environment, as well as for interacting with running containers from Windows. Functionality for working with […]