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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.10 — has taken place. Since the release of 9.9, 18 bug reports have been closed and 254 changes made. The most important changes include: the built-in Vkd3d package with Direct3D 12 implementation has been updated to version 1.12. DPI Awareness mode support has been improved for better application display on high pixel density screens, taking into account […]
A new version of the popular desktop environment GNOME 46.2 has been released, which includes numerous updates and enhancements for various modules such as Glib, GNOME Shell, Adwaita icons, and much more. Key changes in GNOME 46.2 include an update of Evince, the document viewer, to version 46.3, featuring translation updates in Hindi, Greek, Hungarian, and Portuguese. A critical typo has been fixed in […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings — NetworkManager 1.48.0 — has been presented. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are being developed within their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.48: The build system based on the autotools package has been deprecated. It is now recommended to use the meson toolkit for building NetworkManager. The mac-address-blacklist property, which allows for blacklisting, has been deprecated […]
In the Fedora 41 release, it is proposed to remove the network-scripts package, which supports traditional scripts for network configuration based on the ifup and ifdown commands. Such scripts have been deprecated since 2018. The reason for their removal is the plans to eliminate ISC DHCP, which has not been maintained since the end of 2022. The content of network-scripts is heavily tied to ISC DHCP and […]
After nearly three years of development, the ALT Linux Team and Basalt SPO have published the 'Eleventh ALT Platform' (p11, codename 'Salvia') — a new stable branch of ALT repositories based on the Sisyphus free software repository. The platform is intended for the development, testing, distribution, updating, and support of comprehensive solutions at all levels — from embedded devices to enterprise servers and […]
After more than a year of development, the stable release of the Wayland 1.23 protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries has been presented. The 1.23 branch is backwards compatible on the API and ABI levels with 1.x releases and mainly includes bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The project is distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]
Oracle has released the Solaris 11.4 SRU 69 (Support Repository Update), which includes a series of significant changes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply run the command 'pkg update'. Users can also take advantage of the free Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment), developed using a continuous publication model of new […]
Google has scheduled June 3 as the start of the process to end support for the second version of the Chrome manifest, which defines the capabilities and resources available for extensions written using the WebExtensions API. Initially, support for the second version of the manifest was planned to end in January 2023, but the deadlines have been postponed several times. Starting on June 3, in the Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary branches […]
Microsoft has announced the development of a graphical configurator for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), a layer for running Linux applications on Windows. The configurator will simplify the setup of WSL to meet user needs and will allow management and viewing of various WSL parameters without the need to manually edit the '.wslconfig' file. The main problem with '.wslconfig' is the difficulty in understanding which settings are available and which […]
Canonical has announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 builds, optimized for performing tasks in real-time. These builds use the Linux 6.8 kernel with RT patches ('Realtime-Preempt', PREEMPT_RT, or '-rt'), which ensure reduced latencies and allow for predictable event processing times. The builds also include optimizations aimed at boosting performance and reducing latencies on Raspberry Pi boards […]
Lasse Collin, the longtime maintainer of the xz project who transferred rights to the new maintainer Jia Tan in 2022, whose actions led to the introduction of the backdoor, has released corrected versions of the XZ Utils packages 5.2.13, 5.4.7, and 5.6.2, in which backdoor components and other suspicious changes made as a result of the previous maintainer's malicious activity have been removed. Additionally, a review report has been published […]
The release of the Apache NetBeans 22 integrated development environment has been announced, providing support for programming languages such as Java SE, Java EE, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript, Rust, and Groovy. Ready builds will soon be available for Linux (snap, flatpak), Windows, and macOS. Among the proposed changes: The user interface now displays information about the hotkeys for performing standard operations. Icons have been updated […]