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Igor Pavlov has announced a significant version of the 7-Zip archiver, 24.05. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the LGPL license. Ready-made builds for Windows and Linux are available for i686, x86-64, and ARM 32/64 architectures. Unfortunately, most distributions still ship the outdated p7zip, which is over 7 years old. Likely due to the fact that the 7z code […]
An experimental release of the open-source Win32 API implementation — Wine 9.9 has occurred. Since the release of version 9.8, 38 bug reports have been closed and 246 changes have been made. Key changes include: ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) library support has been ensured with the WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows) mode, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run in 64-bit Unix systems. Improved CPU detection has been implemented on ARM architecture platforms. Additionally […]
On May 15, the 0.13 release of the trurl console utility, written in C using the libcurl library, was announced. The utility is designed for parsing and other manipulations with URLs. trurl — is a tool in the spirit of tr, but for URLs: $ trurl —url https://www.linux.org.ru/help/rules.md —get ‘{path}’ /help/rules.md $ trurl —url https://www.linux.org.ru —append path=forum https://www.linux.org.ru/forum Changelog: freeing allocated memory when […]
OpenSSH developers have begun separating sshd into several standalone executables. The first step involved adding a change to the OpenSSH codebase that extracts the sshd-session process, which handles session management tasks. The sshd process retains functions responsible for accepting network connections, checking configurations, loading host keys, and managing processes according to the MaxStartups parameter. As such […]
Google has released the second beta version of the open mobile platform Android 15. The release of Android 15 is expected in the third quarter of 2024. A pre-testing program has been proposed to evaluate new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 7/7a/7 Pro, Pixel 8/8 Pro, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet devices, as well as for certain smartphones and tablets from […]
After five months of development, version 24.05 of the 7-Zip library and command-line utility has been released, written in C and C++, designed for working with 7z archives and many others. Change log: support for extracting ZSTD format archives (custom implementation, ~115 KB); support for extracting ZIP, SquashFS, and RPM archives that use ZSTD compression; support for a fast algorithm […]
A new version of the Vim fork (which, in turn, traces back to Vi) – Neovim – has been released. Key changes include: a new improved default color theme; the ability to invoke diagnostic messages from the LSP with a key press; code block commenting, previously provided by the vim-commentary plugin, is now a built-in feature; various improvements to the built-in terminal, such as: output synchronization, hyperlink recognition support […]
The release of XWayland 24.1.0 is available, a DDX component (Device-Dependent X) that enables running the X.Org Server for executing X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. Main changes: Added support for Explicit Sync technology, which allows informing the Wayland-based compositor about frame output readiness, which can be used to reduce delays and eliminate graphics rendering artifacts. […]
The release of the specialized Tails 6.3 distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian 12 package base and equipped with the GNOME 43 desktop, intended for anonymous browsing. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic over the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. For storing user data in […]
On May 15, version 1.6.0 of the high-performance automatic speech recognition system whisper.cpp was released, implementing the Whisper model from OpenAI in C and C++, and distributed under the MIT license. Change log: added the —flash-attn option to speed up data processing on devices with CUDA and Metal; higher performance on ppc64 architecture; fixed a regular expression processing error in the console utility example […]
A group of researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) discovered an architectural vulnerability (CVE-2023-52424) in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard, allowing users to connect to a less secure wireless network instead of the trusted one they intended to connect to, which can then facilitate traffic interception and manipulation. This issue manifests in the wireless stacks of any operating systems and affects WPA3, WEP authentication methods, […]
Wedson Almeida Filho from Microsoft proposed for discussion in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list a second version of patches with a set of wrappers over the VFS subsystem, aimed at developing Rust-based file systems that operate in read-only mode. Along with the wrappers, two drivers implementing file systems based on them were published […]
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