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Sylvestre Ledru, the engineering director at Mozilla, has announced the transition to a two-week release cycle for Firefox. Starting in September, new releases will be generated every two weeks instead of every four weeks. This change is already reflected in the release schedule: the last release with a four-week development cycle will be Firefox 154, scheduled for August 18. After that, […]
After five months of development, the stable release of the composite server Weston 16.0 has been published, advancing technologies that facilitate full support for the Wayland protocol 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, televisions […]
Researchers from the University of Michigan developed a tool called MVPNalyzer to identify information leaks and analyze VPN performance, testing 281 VPN applications for the Android platform. The study focused on the most popular VPN apps available through the Google Play catalog. VPN applications identified with various security and privacy issues total 2.4 billion […]
GNOME OS developers, a distribution for GNOME developers and testers, introduced an initiative to create a toolkit to simplify the testing of experimental software versions in distributions provided as atomically updatable monolithic system images. The developing GNOME OS Developer Tool Suite will enable the assembly, distribution, and testing of extensions for distributions delivered as system images. The toolkit will provide developers and […]
After five months of development, the release of IncidentRelay 1.1 has been published, enhancing the open system for organizing on-call duties, alert routing, and incident management, which runs on its own server (self-hosted). IncidentRelay 1.1 is marked as the first stable release (the 1.0 branch was in beta). The project is aimed at SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure teams that need a locally deployable alternative to SaaS services for managing on-call […]
The Document Foundation announced the start of beta testing for the LibreOffice suite 26.8. Ready installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The release is scheduled for August 18-20. Changes include: Support for different background colors of the top panel (Notebookbars) in different modules (Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress). In tabbed tool mode, category labels have been added. Added […]
The chat platform Chatto, designed for facilitating communication in communities and developer teams, has been moved to open project status. The platform is optimized for maximum interface responsiveness, minimal backend resource consumption, and ease of deployment on personal server infrastructure for group chats, independent of external services. User access is provided through a browser via a web interface. The code is written in […]
The release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.14 has occurred — a decentralized virtual private network operating on a Peer-To-Peer principle, where participants connect directly to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can find each other via BitTorrent trackers or BitTorrent DHT, or through other participants in the network (peer exchange). The application is a free and open alternative to VPN Hamachi, written in […]
The B1ackOS GNU/Linux project develops a distribution based on Debian Sid (Unstable), using a rolling release update model. systemd is used as the initialization system, and package management is done using APT. The project has its own package repository. The Debian Installer is used as the installer for the console version, while Calamares is used in graphical editions. Architectures supported include amd64, i386, and arm64. […]
The sixth corrective update for Debian 13 has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release features 124 updates addressing stability issues and 120 updates patching vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.6 include an update to the shim-signed layer used for verified boot in UEFI Secure Boot mode. The layer has been updated in […]
Details have been revealed about the vulnerability (CVE-2026-43499) in the Linux kernel, codenamed GhostLock, which allows an unprivileged local user to gain root privileges on the system, as well as escape from isolated containers. When combined with other vulnerabilities in browsers, the identified issue can be exploited for remote code execution with root privileges when opening a specially crafted web page. The issue manifests […]
I present the first release of the IronTick metronome. This is a lightweight, precise, cross-platform metronome using the Qt6 framework. It is distinguished by generating a continuous audio stream of clicks instead of playing individual clicks on a timer, as most other metronome programs do. Thanks to this approach, IronTick clicks much more steadily and accurately, even under significant background load. Features and highlights: High […]