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The developers of Linux Mint shared an update on the progress of Linux Mint 22 in their monthly news digest, including their vision of the situation concerning the development of GNOME and the applications being developed within it. In 2016, the Linux Mint developers launched a project called XApps, focused on creating universal applications for traditional desktop environments on […]
For the first time since 2018, a new stable release of the Amarok music player has been launched. This is the first stable version based on Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5. The journey to version 3.0 has been long. Most of the work porting to Qt5/KF5 was done back in 2015, followed by slow polishing and refinement, with periods of halts and restarts. The alpha version 3.0 was released […]
The release of OpenSilver 2.2 has been published, continuing the development of the Silverlight platform and allowing the creation of interactive web applications using C#, F#, XAML, and .NET technologies. Silverlight applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browsers supporting WebAssembly, but compilation is currently only possible on Windows using Visual Studio. The project code is written in […]
Oracle has formed a new branch of the MySQL database management system, MySQL 8.4, and released a corrective update for MySQL 8.0.37. Builds of MySQL Community Server 8.4.0 are prepared for all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. Release 8.4.0 is categorized under the long-term support (LTS) branches, released every two years and supported for 5 years (with an additional option for 3 more years […]
The release of the OpenTofu 1.7 project has been announced, continuing the development of the open codebase for the configuration management and infrastructure automation platform Terraform. OpenTofu is developed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation using an open governance model with participation from a community formed by companies and enthusiasts interested in the project (161 companies and 792 individual developers have announced their support for the project). The project's code is written […]
Microsoft has introduced a new version of the open monospace font Cascadia Code 2404.23, optimized for use in terminal emulators and code editors. The font is notable for its support of programmable ligatures, which allow the creation of new glyphs by combining existing characters. Such glyphs are supported in the open editor Visual Studio Code and enhance code readability. This is the first update to the project in the last two […]
Intel has published recommendations for BIOS settings that will help resolve stability issues with computers encountered by some owners of 13th and 14th generation Core i9 processors due to overheating. Intel has faced significant difficulties — some users of Intel Core i9 processors from the 13th and 14th generations have reported stability problems. The instability presents itself as […]
After two months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.45 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible means for nonlinear development based on branching and merging branches. Implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used to ensure the integrity of history and resistance to backdate changes […]
After Zilog ceased production of 8-bit Z80 processors on April 15, enthusiasts initiated a project to create an open clone of this processor. The goal of the project is to develop a replacement for the Z80 processors that will be interchangeable with the original Zilog Z80 CPU, compatible at the pinout level, and usable in ZX Spectrum computers. Schematics and hardware block descriptions are available in Verilog […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-27322) has been identified in the primary implementation of the R programming language, which is designed for statistical processing, analysis, and data visualization. This vulnerability allows for code execution during the deserialization of untrusted data. It can be exploited when processing specially crafted files in RDS (R Data Serialization) and RDX formats, used for data exchange between applications. The issue has been resolved […]
The release of the T2 SDE 24.5 meta-distribution has taken place, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up to date. Distributions can be built based on Linux, Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku, and OpenBSD. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system is Puppy Linux. The project provides basic bootable ISO images with minimal graphical environments in various formats […]
A corrective release of Firefox 125.0.3 is available, addressing several issues: An error has been fixed that caused some users to periodically experience new tabs opening with the URL 'https://0.0.0.1' in the address bar after updating to Firefox 125. This effect was only observed on the Windows platform. An investigation showed that the tabs appeared when attempting to launch another instance of Firefox from the command line […]