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The nginx project has released the JavaScript module njs 1.0.0.

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The release of njs 1.0.0 has been published, which is a module for integrating the JavaScript language interpreter into the nginx http server. Njs allows the use of JavaScript scripts in configuration files to extend nginx capabilities. Scripts can be used to define advanced request handling logic, generate configuration, dynamically create responses, modify requests/responses, or quickly create stubs for troubleshooting in web applications. The project code is written in C […]

Release of the minimalist set of system utilities Toybox 0.8.14

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The release of the Toybox 0.8.14 system utility suite has been published, optimized for minimal resource consumption. Similar to BusyBox, all utilities in the suite are available through a single executable file. The project is developed by a former maintainer of BusyBox, written in C, and distributed under the 0BSD license. The goal of Toybox is to provide manufacturers with the opportunity to use a minimalist set of standard utilities without exposing the source code […]

Firefox 152.0.2 Update

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A corrective release of Firefox 152.0.2 is available, featuring four fixes: A regression that disrupted the playback of some MP4 videos has been resolved. Issues with the incorrect display of localized section names in the configurator have been addressed. The content mismatch in the new tab with the changed language settings has been fixed. A performance regression that slowed down concurrent encryption and decryption operations has been eliminated […]

fooyin 0.11.0 and 0.11.1

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On June 22, releases 0.11.0 and 0.11.1 of fooyin took place — a music player focused on individual customization. It offers numerous widgets for managing and playing a local music collection. The player has extensive expansion capabilities thanks to its plugin system and includes FooScript — a scripting language for enhanced widget customization. You can fully customize the user interface by entering layout editing mode: […]

GNU nano 9.1 "with a hungry horse on our leg"

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On June 23, version 9.1 titled ‘met een hongerig paard aan ons been’ of the GNU nano console editor was released. Changes: The viewing area during search is aligned to the left where possible. The ability to read and write files in the old Mac format (i.e., files that use a single carriage return as the end-of-line character) has been removed. The ^T switch has been eliminated […]

A one-line change in GCC resulted in a 12% speedup in one test and a 14% slowdown in another.

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An engineer from Intel made a single-line change to the GCC compiler set, increasing the weight of incorrect branch prediction on x86 processors. This change improved the performance of the generated code by 12.7% in the 544.nab_r test with optimizations "-O2 -mtune=graniterapids" for Intel Granite Rapids/Xeon 6 CPUs, and by 12.1% with optimizations "-O2 -mtune=znver5" on AMD Zen5 CPUs. The change […]

COSMIC desktop environment 1.1.0 is now available.

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System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released COSMIC desktop environment version 1.1.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.1.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and will soon be available in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]

Brave Origin

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The release of Brave Origin, a minimalist version of Brave, has taken place. Brave is an internet browser, a fork of Chromium, supported by Brave Software. This company was founded by Brendan Eich, the creator of the JavaScript programming language and former CTO of Mozilla Corporation. Brave is developed under the 'open core' model: the source code patches for Chromium are available on GitHub, but the binary packages are built in a closed manner and contain the following […]

ZXC 0.12.0

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On June 18, after more than a month of development, version 0.12.0 of the ZXC library and cross-platform console utility was released (github.com), implementing high-performance multithreaded lossless compression optimized for game resources, firmware, and application packages. The format is designed based on the principle of 'write once, read many' (WORM). Unlike codecs such as LZ4, ZXC sacrifices compression speed for maximum […]

Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft are developing a mechanism to filter out web bots

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Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Shopify have introduced a joint project to develop and standardize the Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) protocol, enabling the separation of real users and legitimately operating bots from junk traffic and uncontrolled AI bot activity while preserving user privacy. It is claimed that the new protocol will allow filtering bot traffic on websites using anonymous tokens, bypassing […]

The first test release of the Xfwl4 composite server from the Xfce project

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After 6 months of development, the first preview release of the Xfwl4 composite server, which uses the Wayland protocol, has been presented. Xfwl4 is written in Rust using the Smithay library. The reason for creating a new composite server is attributed to the unsuccessful attempt to implement simultaneous support for X11 and Wayland within the existing codebase of the xfwm4 window manager, which was originally designed for tight integration with the protocol […]

postmarketOS 26.06 has been released, a Linux distribution for smartphones and mobile devices.

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After 6 months of development, the release of the postmarketOS project 26.06 has been presented, which develops a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The goal of the project is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones and tablets that is independent of the lifecycle support of official firmware and not tied to standard solutions from major industry players. Builds […]

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