Category: Internet News

Let's Encrypt celebrates 10 years

The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, controlled by the community and providing certificates free of charge to anyone who wishes, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The service generates around three million new certificates daily. The number of active certificates stands at 277 million (each certificate is valid for three months). These certificates cover approximately 111 million registered domains and 350 million fully qualified domain names (FQDN). According to Firefox Telemetry statistics, worldwide […]

Release of SeaMonkey 2.53.17 and Tor Browser 12.5.2

The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.17 internet application suite has taken place, which combines a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer within a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the Chatzilla IRC client, the DOM Inspector web development toolset, and the Lightning calendar/planner. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based […]

The CBS and sqld projects are advancing cloud and server versions of SQLite.

The SQLite developers are advancing the experimental VFS module CBS (Cloud Backed SQLite), which allows the database content to be stored not in a local file but in external cloud storage. A specially optimized format for external storage is used, enabling data to be loaded dynamically from the cloud as needed, without the need to copy the entire database to the local system in advance. From cloud storage […]

Vulnerabilities in Redis, Ghostscript, Asterisk, and Parse Server

Several recently discovered critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24834 — a vulnerability in the Redis DBMS that allows a buffer overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries when running a specially crafted Lua script. This vulnerability could potentially lead to remote code execution on the server. The issue manifests starting from Redis 2.6 and has been fixed in versions 7.0.12, 6.2.13, and 6.0.20. As a workaround […]

The about:performance interface will be removed in Firefox 116

The developers at Mozilla have decided to remove the 'about:performance' service page, which allowed tracking the CPU load and memory consumption generated while processing various pages. This decision is due to the introduction of the similar 'about:processes' interface starting from Firefox 78, which duplicates the functionality of 'about:performance' but is considered more user-friendly and informative. For instance, the 'about:processes' page displays not […]

Release of Pale Moon browser 32.3

The release of the Pale Moon 32.3 web browser has been published, which diverged from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher performance, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory usage, and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without transitioning to […]

Oracle Linux will continue to support compatibility with RHEL

Oracle has announced its readiness to continue maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its Oracle Linux distribution, despite Red Hat's restriction of public access to the source code of RHEL packages. The loss of access to the reference source code of packages increases the likelihood of compatibility issues, but Oracle is prepared to address these issues if they affect clients. […]

Release of OpenRGB 0.9, a tool for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices

After 7 months of development, OpenRGB 0.9 has been released, an open toolkit for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices. The package supports ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI motherboards with RGB subsystems for case lighting, memory modules with RGB lighting from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair, and HyperX, ASUS Aura/ROG graphics cards, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro, and Gigabyte Aorus, and various LED strip controllers (ThermalTake, […]

Imagination used the Zink driver to support OpenGL 4.6 in its GPUs.

Imagination Technologies announced the support of the OpenGL 4.6 graphics API in its GPUs, implemented through the open Zink driver developed in the Mesa project repository. Zink provides an implementation of OpenGL on top of Vulkan, allowing hardware-accelerated OpenGL on devices that only support the Vulkan API. The performance of Zink is close to that of native OpenGL implementations, enabling hardware manufacturers to […]

Release of Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0

Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a ready-to-use solution for quickly establishing a system for monitoring email traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For […]

The openKylin 1.0 distribution has been launched, developed by major Chinese companies.

The release of the independent Linux distribution openKylin 1.0 has been announced. The project is being developed by the China Electronics Corporation with the participation of over 270 various Chinese organizations, educational institutions, research centers, and both software and hardware manufacturers. Development is carried out under open licenses (mainly GPLv3) in repositories hosted on gitee.com. The ready installation builds of openKylin 1.0 are formed for X86_64 (4.2 GB), ARM, and RISC-V architectures [...].

The Sourcegraph project has shifted from an open license to a proprietary one.

The Sourcegraph project, which develops an engine for navigating source text, refactoring, and searching code, has abandoned development under the Apache 2.0 license in favor of a proprietary license starting with version 5.1. This new license prohibits duplication and sale while allowing copying and modification during development and testing. Initially, the release note for Sourcegraph 5.1 stated that the open edition [...].

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