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Bypassing verification in the xml-crypto library, which has a million downloads per week.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2024-32962) has been discovered in the xml-crypto JavaScript library, which is used as a dependency in 402 projects and downloaded from the NPM registry about a million times each week. The vulnerability has been assigned the maximum severity level (10 out of 10). The library provides functions for encrypting and verifying XML documents with digital signatures. This vulnerability allows an attacker to sign a fraudulent document that, by default configuration, will be accepted.

Update for VirtualBox 7.0.18

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Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system 7.0.18, which includes 3 fixes: A bug in the network components has been resolved, leading to a recommendation not to install VirtualBox version 7.0.16. The bug caused system crashes in the host environment when using virtual machines with bridge network settings or involving a network adapter working only on the host side.

CIQ extends the lifespan of CentOS 7

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CentOS users who have not yet transitioned to Rocky Linux can extend the lifetime of CentOS with additional support from CIQ Bridge. CIQ Bridge will extend the life for up to three years after EOL for organizations that need extra time to migrate to Rocky Linux, under an annual fixed-rate subscription. CIQ is a founding partner.

The number of extensions for the Android version of Firefox has exceeded 1000.

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Mozilla has announced that it has surpassed the milestone of 1000 add-ons available for the Android version of Firefox in the AMO catalog (addons.mozilla.org). In December 2023, after the addition of the infrastructure for add-ons in the Android version of Firefox, there were 489 add-ons in the catalog. In less than five months, the number of add-ons ported for the Android version of Firefox has doubled. Developers of add-ons already provided for the desktop version of Firefox, […]

Release of Rust 1.78. Borgo language, combining the strengths of Go and Rust

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The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.78 has been published, originally developed by Mozilla but now maintained under the aegis of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory handling and provides means for achieving high task parallelism, while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is limited to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

Valve has released Proton 9.0, a package for running Windows games on Linux.

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Valve has released a stable version of the Proton 9.0 project, based on the Wine codebase, aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications designed for Windows within the Linux environment and available in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to run Windows-only gaming applications directly in the Steam client on Linux. The package includes an implementation of […]

Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4

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Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 distribution. Ready-to-use installation images are available for registered users on the Red Hat Customer Portal (CentOS Stream 9 ISO images and free RHEL developer builds can also be used for functionality evaluation). The release is built for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. The RHEL 9 branch is evolving […]

The release of the home theater distribution LibreELEC 12.0.

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The release of LibreELEC 12.0 has been presented, which develops a fork of the distribution for creating home theaters based on OpenELEC. The user interface is built on the Kodi media center. Images prepared for USB flash drives or SD cards are available for download (32- and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 2/3/4/5, various devices running on Rockchip, Allwinner, NXP, and Amlogic chips). The build size for the x86_64 architecture is 247 MB. Upon […]

CudaText 1.214.0 Release

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The text editor CudaText has quietly and unassumingly updated. Over the past 7 months since the last announcement, many improvements have been made, briefly listed on the English-speaking forum: Listing. The most noticeable change is the acceleration of bulk replacements; now, replacing RegEx ‘w’, for example, with a single letter occurs significantly faster than in Sublime Text. New plugins: Hotspots; Markdown Editing has added functionality from VSCode’s […]

Linux Mint is abandoning libAdwaita and invites others to join them.

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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 […]

Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"

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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 OpenSilver 2.2 platform has been released, continuing the development of Silverlight technology.

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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 […]

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