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The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped back, has announced a transition to a new release model. Instead of releases in the format "OTA-number branch_name," new versions of the Ubuntu Touch firmware will be released using the "year.month.update" scheme, where the year and month correspond to the time of a significant release based on […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which Firefox 124 will be formed on March 19, the ability to display page thumbnails when hovering over tabs has been added. In addition to the thumbnail, a mention of the link displayed in the tab has also been added to the information block about the tab. The link shown in the popup above the tab will appear in Firefox 123, scheduled for […]
The Arduino community, which develops a series of open boards based on microcontrollers, has released the Arduino IDE 2.3 integrated development environment, providing an interface for writing code, compiling, uploading firmware to hardware, and interacting with the boards during debugging. Firmware development is conducted in a slightly trimmed version of C++ with the Wiring framework. The interface code of the development environment is written in TypeScript (typed JavaScript), […]
The release of the Arkime 5.0 system for capturing, storing, and indexing network packets has been published, providing tools for visual evaluation of traffic flows and searching for information related to network activity. The project was originally developed by AOL with the goal of creating an open replacement for commercial packet processing platforms, supporting deployment on its servers and capable of scaling to handle traffic at speeds […]
The fifth corrective update for Debian 12 has been formed, which includes accumulated package updates and adds fixes in the installer. The release includes 68 updates addressing stability issues and 42 updates resolving vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 12.5 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as dpdk, mariadb, postfix, qemu, systemd, and xen. In cryptsetup-initramfs […]
Around 100 changes related to the implementation of WireGuard VPN support have been made in the DragonFly BSD operating system kernel. The 'wg' driver with WireGuard protocol support has been ported from FreeBSD, while the code for cryptographic functions, network interfaces, and the ioctl API (for user-space management) has been borrowed from OpenBSD. Changes to the ifconfig utility necessary for VPN configuration have been imported from OpenBSD. The implementation […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.2 — has taken place. Since the release of 9.1, 14 bug reports have been closed and 213 changes have been made. Key changes include: the Wine Mono engine with .NET platform implementation has been updated to version 9.0.0; improved support for the system tray; exception handling has been enhanced on ARM platforms; the YEAR2038 macro has been used in the build […]
A new incarnation of the ZX-Spectrum emulator Glukalka is available for download. The graphical component of the emulator has been rewritten using the Qt library (the recommended minimum version is Qt-4.6; some emulator functions may be disabled on older versions of Qt or the emulator may not compile). The use of Qt has made the emulator more portable: it now works not only on UNIX/X11 but also on MS Windows, Mac OS […]
The Fedora project has announced the unification of naming for user builds of the Fedora Linux distribution, which utilize an atomic update model and a monolithic system structure. These distribution variants are categorized under a separate family known as Fedora Atomic Desktops, where the builds will be titled "Fedora Atomic." However, for the already recognized and long-established atomic builds, the old names will be preserved, as […]
Google published a clarification on its support portal regarding user data collected during interactions with the Gemini chatbot — this concerns the web interface as well as conversations in the mobile apps for Android and iOS: by default, these will be stored for three years. Image source: Sascha Bosshard / unsplash.com Source: 3dnews.ru
A new version of the Glukalka emulator is available for download. Glukalka is the only open-source ZX-Spectrum emulator for PC Linux/Windows, Mac, and Android, with ports that are not developed by third parties, ensuring consistent functionality and synchronization with the main project. Emulated models include: ZX-Spectrum 48, 128, Pentagon + Beta Disk Interface, ZS-Scorpion. The new version features a mobile application for […]
The developers of Xfce have updated their roadmap with information about Wayland support. There will be no discontinuation of X support in Xfce (at least in 4.20). The wlroots library will be used as the 'core' for Wayland in Xfce. The xfdesktop workspace and xfce4-panel have been ported for Wayland and offer full support for it. The following components also have complete Wayland support: exo, libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, […]