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Release of uutils 0.0.19, a Rust implementation of GNU Coreutils

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The release of the uutils coreutils 0.0.19 project is available, developing an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils that can work on platforms such as Windows, Redox, and […]

Plane — an open-source error tracking and project management system

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The release of the Plane 0.7 platform is available, providing tools for project management, bug tracking, work planning, product development maintenance, task list building, and coordination of task execution. The platform can be deployed in one's own infrastructure without dependence on third-party vendors and is being developed as an open-source alternative to proprietary systems such as JIRA, Linear, and Height. The project is still under development […]

Bypassing SELinux restrictions related to loading kernel modules

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The possibility of bypassing the kernel module loading restriction implemented in targeted SELinux policies has been demonstrated on one of the studied devices (the specific device is not specified and it is unclear how much the issue affects SELinux policies in firmware and distributions). The blocking of modules in the enforced SELinux policies was based on restricting access to the finit_module system call, which allows loading a module from a file and is applied in […]

First release of Blink, a high-performance x86-64 system emulator

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The first significant release of the Blink project has been published, which develops an x86-64 CPU emulator that allows running both statically and dynamically compiled Linux applications in a virtual machine with an emulated processor. Using Blink, Linux programs compiled for the x86-64 architecture can be run in other POSIX-compatible operating systems (macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Cygwin) and on hardware with different architectures (x86, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, PowerPC, […]

Zulip 7 Messaging Platform Now Available

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The release of Zulip 7, a server platform for deploying enterprise messengers suitable for organizing communication among employees and developer groups, has been introduced. The project was originally developed by Zulip and opened after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]

Release of the IceWM 3.4.0 window manager

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A new release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 3.4.0 is now available. IceWM provides full management through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars, and application menus, and tabs can be used for grouping windows. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, and theme customization is possible. Window grouping in tab form is supported. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are available. […]

Update of the Sendmail SMTP server 8.17.2

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Nearly two years after the last update, the SMTP server Sendmail 8.17.2 has been released. Alongside bug fixes, the new version enhances support for email addresses with characters from national alphabets (EAI, Email Address Internationalization), adds support for new versions of macOS, and improves the execution of DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) checks. To prevent performance degradation, the default value for the MaxMimeHeaderLength parameter has been set to […]

Release of the distribution for security research Kali Linux 2023.2

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The release of Kali Linux 2023.2 has been announced, based on the Debian package base and designed for vulnerability testing, auditing, analysis of residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are licensed under GPL and are available through a public Git repository. Several ISO image options have been prepared for download, with a size of 443 MB, […]

Release of the distribution for creating network storage TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U5

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The release of TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U5 has been announced, a distribution for quickly deploying Network-Attached Storage (NAS), continuing the development of the FreeNAS project. TrueNAS CORE 13 is based on the FreeBSD 13 codebase, features integrated support for ZFS, and can be managed through a web interface built using the Python framework Django. Access to the storage is supported via FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and iSCSI, for […]

The Git 2.41 source code management system is available.

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After three months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.41 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience to 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is utilized in each commit, […]

Introducing Crab, a fork of the Rust language, free from bureaucracy.

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As part of the Crab (CrabLang) project, the development of a fork of the Rust language and package manager Cargo has begun (the fork is named Crabgo). The leader of the fork is Travis Wagner, who is not in the top 100 most active Rust developers. The reason for creating the fork is dissatisfaction with the increasing influence of corporations on the Rust language and the questionable policies of the Rust Foundation organization […]

After a ten-year hiatus, GoldenDict 1.5.0 has been released.

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The release of GoldenDict 1.5.0 has been published, an application for working with dictionary data that supports various dictionary and encyclopedia formats and can display documents in HTML format using the WebKit engine. The project code is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. It supports builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. Notable features include a graphical […]

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