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EU Accuses Microsoft of Monopoly Due to Teams App

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Microsoft is once again in the spotlight of EU antitrust regulators. This time, the concern is about undermining fair competition in the software market for video conferencing products. In particular, this relates to the Teams application. In the coming weeks, the European Commission is set to formally present charges. Regulators are worried about the dominant position of the Microsoft Teams application and how the company is leveraging its position for […]

Release of Linux Kernel 6.9

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds released kernel version 6.9 of Linux. Among the most notable changes are the dm-vdo module for deduplication and compression of block devices, direct file access mode in FUSE, support for creating pidfd for individual threads, BPF token mechanism, Rust support on ARM64 systems, deprecation of the Ext2 filesystem, removal of the old NTFS driver, and support for the mechanism […]

Release of Nuitka 2.2

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Nuitka is an optimizing Python compiler that translates Python into C to create executables. Nuitka is fully compatible with Python 3 (3.4—3.11) and Python 2 (2.6, 2.7) and is available essentially everywhere Python runs. This release focused on compatibility support, bug fixes, and enhancements to loop optimizations, such as list operations. Key features […]

Version 9.8.0 of the PeaZip archive manager has been released.

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Quietly and unceremoniously, version 9.8.0 of the PeaZip archiver has been released. The new version introduces a selective extraction feature that allows users to extract individual files from an archive directly into specific locations in bookmarks, etc., without extra steps. A couple of themes have been added, the code has been refined, and the project has been transitioned to compilation using Lazarus 3.2, although it should still compile with versions 2.x, […]

Firefox has proposed additional tracking protection using redirects.

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, upon which the release of Firefox 127 will be based on June 11, a new tracking protection mechanism—"Bounce Tracking Protection"—has been added, expanding capabilities for blocking visitor tracking using redirects to other pages. The essence of the tracking method is that the tracker code initially redirects the user to its site before [the user is redirected to the intended destination], […]

Release of Pingora 0.2, a framework for creating network services

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Cloudflare has released the second version of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services in Rust. Built using Pingora, a proxy has been in use for about a year in Cloudflare's content delivery network instead of nginx and processes more than 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features of Pingora include support for […]

Release of Proton-GE 9-5, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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The release of the GE-Proton 9-5 project has been published, in which enthusiasts create Valve-independent extended builds of the Proton package to run Windows applications, featuring a newer version of Wine, utilizing FFmpeg in FAudio, and including additional patches that resolve issues in various gaming applications. Changes from the latest code bases of wine 9, proton 9, steamclient have been integrated into Proton GE 9-5.

Hydra — a free game launcher

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Hydra is a game launcher that includes a built-in BitTorrent client and supports automatic tracking of new publications on all noteworthy sites with notifications of updates. Additionally, the launcher allows configuring download paths for content and displays the HLTB (How Long To Beat) metric for games. It is developed for the Electron platform using TypeScript and Python.

The release candidate of the reference implementation of Lua 5.4.7-rc1 has been published.

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Lua is a powerful, portable, lightweight, embeddable, and simple programming language, developed and maintained by Roberto Ierusalimschy at PUC-Rio for over 30 years. This minor release is focused on fixing bugs and improving documentation. Everyone affected by bugs in the previous version and those who want to test the current one are invited to participate. If you notice a bug or wish to contribute, please report it.

Release of EuroLinux 9.4 distribution, compatible with RHEL

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The release of EuroLinux 9.4 has occurred, prepared by recompiling the source texts of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 distribution packages and is fully binary compatible with it. The changes include rebranding and removal of RHEL-specific packages; otherwise, the distribution is fully analogous to RHEL 9.4. The EuroLinux 9 branch will be supported until June 30, 2032. Installation images are prepared for download.

The gittuf project is developing a cryptographic protection system for Git repositories.

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The release of the gittuf project version 0.4 is available, developing a hierarchical system for verifying the contents of Git repositories, allowing for the minimization of risks in situations where individual developers with access to the repository may be compromised. Gittuf provides an additional layer of security to Git and a set of tools for managing keys of all developers with access to the repository, as well as establishing access rules for branches, tags, and individual files.

Release Xpra 6.0, an equivalent of the screen utility for GUI. Development of Wprs, the implementation of Xpra for Wayland.

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The release of the Xpra 6.0 project has been published, which develops utilities similar to screen and tmux for working with graphical applications. Xpra allows you to run X11 applications on a local or remote system, detach a session without terminating running programs, and return to working with applications later or continue working from another host (you can start with a program on one machine and […

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