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The developers of the Lubuntu project have published a plan to transition the distribution to Qt 6 and Wayland. Support for an optional Wayland-based session will be introduced in Lubuntu 24.04, while in Lubuntu 24.10 this session will be enabled by default. Meanwhile, work continues on integrating Wayland and Qt 6 support into the LXQt desktop environment provided in Lubuntu (the latest LXQt release is 1.4 […]
The Debian project developers have announced the suspension of publishing installation images with the Debian 12.3 update due to the discovery of an error in the Linux kernel that leads to data corruption in the Ext4 file system. Users of already installed systems are advised to refrain from installing kernel package updates from the repository until a fix is released. The problem occurs in the stable branch of the Linux kernel 6.1, in which […]
Marc Newlin, who discovered the MouseJack vulnerability seven years ago, has revealed details about a similar vulnerability (CVE-2023-45866) affecting Bluetooth stacks in Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS. This vulnerability allows for keypress spoofing by simulating the activity of a Bluetooth-connected input device. Once access to the keyboard input is gained, an attacker can perform various actions, such as executing system commands […]
Marc Newlin, who identified the MouseJack vulnerability seven years ago, has disclosed information about a similar vulnerability (CVE-2023-45866) affecting Bluetooth stacks in Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS, which allows for keypress substitution through simulating the activity of an input device connected via Bluetooth. With access to keyboard input, an attacker can perform actions, such as executing commands in the system, installing applications, and […]
On December 7, the release 2.40.0 of the GitHub CLI console tool, written in Go and distributed under the MIT license, took place. This release focuses on supporting multiple accounts on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise: adding multiple accounts for GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise with the gh auth login command; manual switching between accounts in gh and git using the command gh auth […]
Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 9.0, an open implementation of WinAPI. The codebase has been frozen ahead of the release, which is expected in the second half of January. Compared to the Wine 8.21 release, 52 bug reports have been fixed and 391 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Integrated vkd3d package with Direct3D 12 support, working through call translation […]
On November 22, after more than two months of development, release 2.1.0 of the cross-platform console utility pkgconf and the library libpkgconf, written in C with minimal dependencies, was launched. The utility was created as an alternative to pkg-config from the freedesktop.org project and is designed to assist in configuring compiler and linker flags; generally used in conjunction with autotools utilities. Change log: the analyzer no longer 'flattens'; fixed […]
On December 6, release 3.28 of the cross-platform build system CMake, written in C++ and distributed under the BSD-3 license, was released. Key changes include: improved support for C++20 modules in Ninja and Visual Studio (VS 2022 and later) generators. Details in cmake-cxxmodules(7); HIP language code for NVIDIA GPUs can now be compiled with the nvcc compiler (NVIDIA CUDA Compiler). More details in […]
Werner Koch, the lead developer and creator of the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) project, has founded the LibrePGP project, focused on developing an updated specification that serves as an alternative to the OpenPGP standard. The fork was created in response to changes proposed by the IETF working group for the next update to the OpenPGP specification (RFC-4880), which Koch viewed as questionable in terms of maintaining compatibility and ensuring […]
The release of Electron 28.0.0 has been published, providing a standalone framework for developing cross-platform user applications based on components of Chromium, V8, and Node.js. The significant version number change is due to the update to Chromium codebase 120, Node.js platform 18.18.2, and JavaScript engine V8 12.0. Among the changes in the new release: support for ESM (ECMAScript Modules) JavaScript modules has been added, created in […]
The leadership of the climate initiative Frontier, on behalf of a group of companies including Alphabet, Stripe, Shopify, and other giants, announced a deal worth over $57 million to remove more than 158,000 tons of CO2 from the Earth's atmosphere by 2028. The startup Lithos Carbon will remove carbon dioxide by spreading basalt chips over agricultural lands. It is believed that this […]
After ten months of development, the release of the Endless OS 5.1 distribution has been presented, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system where users can quickly find applications to their liking. Applications are distributed as standalone packages in Flatpak format. The size of the available installation images ranges from 1.1 to 18 GB. The distribution does not use traditional package managers, instead offering a minimal […]