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On June 10, version 1.2.0 of the cross-platform multi-threaded console utilities par2cmdline was released for creating, verifying, and recovering files in PAR 2.0 format, using Reed-Solomon codes. Builds are provided for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. The project is written in C++ and is distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license. Changes: the ability to accept input files from standard [...].
Usually, tickets for good conferences are not cheap. Here — it’s free. On July 30, the Kuber Community Day conference will take place in Moscow for the second time. This practical event will bring together DevOps and SRE specialists, developers, architects, operations engineers, and all those interested. The organizers declare: two streams of technical presentations, a master class on creating a K8s operator, round tables, and even Arch Dating — short meetups [...].
An experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API — Wine 11.11 has been published. Since the release of 11.10, 25 bug reports have been closed, and 223 changes have been made. The most important changes include: the winewayland driver, which allows using Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol, has added support for the Wayland protocol alpha-modifier-v1, allowing applications to change the transparency level of surfaces and handle transparency operations [...].
Proxmox, a company known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has announced the release of the Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 distribution, presented as a ready-made solution for quickly establishing a system for monitoring email traffic and protecting internal mail servers. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are released under the AGPLv3 license. To install updates […]
In the upcoming Chrome 150 release on June 30, support for the kExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag will be removed, which allowed reverting the capability to install extensions using the second version of the Chrome manifest from the Chrome Web Store. The day before yesterday, code implementing the AllowLegacyMV2Extensions parameter, which permitted manual installation in […] was additionally removed from the Chromium code base that forms the basis for Chrome 151, scheduled for July 28.
A massive compromise of packages in the AUR (Arch User Repository) repository, used in Arch Linux for distributing applications from third-party developers, has been reported. Attackers gained control over 469 packages and managed to inject malicious code to steal user passwords and access keys from their systems. Among other things, the malicious code was integrated into the AUR-delivered ALVR package, a popular […]
After a year of development, the VeraCrypt 1.26.29 project has been released, which is a fork of the defunct TrueCrypt disk encryption system. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and resolving issues identified during the TrueCrypt source code audit. The code developed by the VeraCrypt project is distributed […]
The first significant release of the yserver X11 server, written from scratch in Rust and supporting the current X11 protocol extensions, has been published. The project does not aim to replicate all the capabilities of the Xorg Server and is limited to only the functionality necessary to run modern desktop environments, window managers, applications, and graphics libraries (GTK, Qt, SDL, GLFW). Among the tested environments, MATE is noted, […]
A vulnerability in the free forum software engine phpBB was identified, allowing an attacker to connect to any forum user's session by sending a single HTTP request. This vulnerability exists in the default configuration of phpBB. The issue has been resolved in phpBB version 3.3.17. An attack on regular users can grant access to private correspondence and the ability to send messages on behalf of the user. An attack on moderators […]
Adam Williamson from Red Hat, who leads the quality control team in the Fedora project, noted suspicious activity by Nathan Giovannini, who joined the Fedora project in 2016 and was involved in the Fedora Infrastructure Team for some time. It is suspected that the activities carried out in Nathan's name over the past two months were directed […]
The release of OpenProject 17.5.0 has been published — an open system for project management, task management, roadmaps, agile planning, meetings, documentation, and team collaboration. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license and is developed openly on GitHub. The release took place on June 10, 2026. The main change in OpenProject 17.5 is the introduction of project identifiers for work packages, currently in Beta status. Previously, tasks in OpenProject received […]
The release of Asterinas 0.18.0 has been published — an experimental operating system and kernel written in Rust, focusing on compatibility with the Linux ABI. The project is positioned as an attempt to create a production-grade alternative to Linux with an emphasis on memory safety, performance, and running a standard Linux user environment. The Asterinas code is open and hosted on GitHub, with the main project license being MPL 2.0. The release of Asterinas 0.18.0 […]