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The developers of the Wine interface 'Bottles' have announced a new project. Bottles Next will undergo significant redesign, while Bottles will receive bug fixes and minor feature additions. Key changes: Bottles Next will be available not only for Linux but also for MacOS. The GUI for MacOS will use Electron and VueJS 3, while Linux will use […]
The second corrective update for Debian 12 has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release contains 117 updates that address stability issues and 52 updates that fix vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 12.2 include updates to fresh stable versions of packages like clamav, dbus, dpdk, gtk+3.0, mariadb, mutt, nvidia-settings, openssl, qemu, […]
The author of the DNS server Trust-DNS has announced the project's renaming to Hickory DNS. The reason for the name change is to make the project more appealing to users, developers, and sponsors, to avoid search overlaps with the concept of 'Trusted DNS,' and to register a trademark to protect the brand associated with the project (the name Trust-DNS will be problematic to use as a trademark, as […]
Valve has released an update for project Proton 8.0-4, based on the Wine codebase, aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications developed for Windows on Linux and showcased in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows direct launching of gaming applications provided only for Windows in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […
New versions of the compact Live distribution Slax have been released — 15.0.2 based on the Slackware project and 12.1.0 based on Debian (in 2018, the distribution was switched to the Debian package base, but in the release of Slax 15, the project returned to using Slackware). The graphical environment in Slax is built on the FluxBox window manager and the xLunch program launcher interface, […]
The public version of Java 21 has been released. Java 21 is an LTS release, meaning it will receive updates for at least 5 years from its release. Key changes include: String Templates (Preview), Sequenced Collections, Generational ZGC, Record Patterns, Pattern Matching for switch, Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview), Unnamed Patterns and Variables (Preview), Virtual Threads, Unnamed Classes and […]
On October 2, 2023, a new stable version of the popular programming language Python 3.12 was released. Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language with dynamic strict typing and automatic memory management, aimed at enhancing developer productivity, code readability and quality, as well as ensuring portability of the programs written in it. The latest stable version Python 3.12 offers a host of […]
OpenSSH 9.5 has been released, the open implementation of the client and server for working via SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Key changes include: By default, ssh-keygen now includes the generation of keys based on the Ed25519 digital signature, developed by Daniel Bernstein and standardized in RFC 8709. It is noted that Ed25519 keys have been supported since the OpenSSH 6.5 release (2014) and are more convenient because […]
The developers of the Rocky Linux distribution, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL to take the place of classic CentOS, announced the creation of a new SIG (Special Interest Group) dedicated to Security, which will be responsible for maintaining packages related to providing enhanced protection and delivering additional tools for security assurance. The group will also publish alternative versions of existing packages, compiled with various mechanisms for […]
The release of the VictoriaMetrics platform 1.94.0 is available, providing a database for storing and processing data in the form of time series (a record forms time and a set of corresponding values, for example, obtained through periodic polling of sensor states or gathering metrics), optimized for monitoring tasks. This project competes with solutions such as InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Thanos, Cortex, and Uber M3, and is distinguished by […]
The release of P2P VPN 0.11.2 has occurred — a decentralized virtual private network implementation that operates on a Peer-To-Peer basis, where participants are connected directly to each other rather than through a central server. Participants in the network can find each other via a BitTorrent tracker or BitTorrent DHT, or through other participants in the network. Changes include: the ability to use the application in headless mode (without a graphical interface). […]
Google has enabled the option to prevent website crawling by robots used for the training of the company's neural networks. Content can be hidden from Bard and VertexAI robots, while such a restriction will not affect the website's indexing by the search engine itself. To do this, you need to add the corresponding entry to the robots.txt file. With the expansion of AI model databases, Google plans to automatically extend the ability to prohibit site indexing […]