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SQLite 3.45 has been released, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely without restrictions for any purpose. The financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Bentley, Bloomberg, Expensify, and Navigation Data Standard. Main changes: All SQL functions for […]
After two years of development, the release of the Ocrad 0.29 text recognition system (Optical Character Recognition), developed under the GNU project, has been finalized. Ocrad can be used either as a library to integrate OCR functions into other applications or as a standalone utility that outputs text in UTF-8 or 8-bit encodings based on the input image provided. For optical […]
An engineer from Clyso summarized the experience of creating a storage cluster based on a fault-tolerant distributed system Ceph, achieving bandwidth exceeding tebibyte per second. It is noted that this is the first Ceph-based cluster to reach such a benchmark, but before obtaining the presented result, engineers had to overcome a series of not-so-obvious challenges. For instance, to enhance performance by 10-20%, they had to […]
Major home appliance manufacturer Haier sent a cease and desist notice to the software developer for creating Home Assistant plugins for the company's appliances and publishing them on GitHub. Haier is a multinational corporation that produces home appliances and consumer electronics, selling a wide range of products under brands such as General Electric Appliances, Hotpoint, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel, and Candy. German […]
The developers of the collaborative development platform SourceHut published an incident report detailing how the service was disrupted for 7 days due to a prolonged DDoS attack, for which the project's infrastructure was unprepared. Basic services were restored by the third day, but some services remained unavailable from January 10 to January 17. At the onset of the attack, the developers were unable to respond […]
After six months of development, the release of the wayland-protocols package 1.33 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary tools for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases: development, testing, and stabilization. Upon completion of the development phase (the 'unstable' category), the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in […]
On the Linux kernel developers' mailing list, letters received by one of the developers during correspondence with Hans Reiser, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for murdering his wife during an argument and attempting to cover up the crime (in 2027, Hans will be eligible to apply for parole), have been published. In the released letters, Hans expresses regret about […]
A new branch of the Hangover project has been released, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in environments based on the ARM64 (Aarch64) architecture. A variant of Hangover for the RISC-V architecture is currently in development. The release is based on the Wine 9.0 codebase, as reflected in the version number. The project's developments are distributed under the LGPL-2.1 license. The project provides a significant improvement in […]
The release of the Tesseract 5.3.4 optical character recognition system has been announced, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The output can be saved as plain text as well as in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally created between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in […]
Google is preparing for the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in March 2024. Under the DMA, Google is classified as a "gatekeeper," which includes companies with more than 45 million active users per month and a market capitalization of over €75 billion ($81.2 billion). The most noticeable changes will occur in the search engine — where Google may display […]
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the upcoming LTS release of the operating system from Canonical, promises to bring a range of performance optimizations for the GNOME desktop environment. The new improvements aim to enhance efficiency and usability, especially for users with multiple monitors and those utilizing Wayland sessions. In addition to the triple buffering patches for GNOME, which are not yet included in the main branch of Mutter, Ubuntu […]
Correction releases X.Org Server 21.1.11 and the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 23.2.4 have been published, enabling the X.Org Server to run X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions address 6 vulnerabilities, some of which may be exploited to escalate privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution […]