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Chrome has decided to remove the lock indicator from the address bar.

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Google plans to upgrade the browser interface in Chrome version 117, scheduled for September 12, replacing the secure data transmission indicator, shown as a lock in the address bar, with a neutral 'settings' icon that doesn't evoke any associations with security. For connections established without encryption, the 'not secure' indicator will continue to be displayed. This change underscores that security is now a default state, […]

Support for snapshots has been implemented in APT package manager version 2.7.

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An experimental branch of the APT (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been released, from which a stable version 2.8 will be prepared after stabilization. This version will be integrated into Debian Testing and will be included in the release of Debian 13, as well as added to the package base of Ubuntu. In addition to Debian and its derivatives, the APT-RPM fork is also used in […]

KOP3 has been introduced, a repository for RHEL8 that complements EPEL and RPMForge.

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A new repository called kop3 has been prepared, offering additional packages for RHEL8, Oracle Linux, CentOS, RockyLinux, and AlmaLinux. The project's aim is to prepare packages for programs that are not available in the EPEL and RPMForge repositories. For instance, the new repository offers packages for programs such as tkgate, telepathy, rest, iverilog, gnome-maps, gnome-chess, GNU Chess, gnome-weather, folks-tools, gnote, gnome-todo, djview4, and a viewer build […]

Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.1.0.

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After five months of development, Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.1.0. The project was acquired by Cisco in 2013 following the purchase of Sourcefire, which developed ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The 1.1.0 branch is classified as a regular (non-LTS) version, with updates being published for at least 4 months after […]

Release of the OpenMoonRay 1.1 rendering system, developed by Dreamworks Studio

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The animation studio Dreamworks has released the first update of the open rendering system OpenMoonRay 1.0, which employs ray tracing based on numerical integration using the Monte Carlo (MCRT) method. MoonRay focuses on delivering high efficiency and scalability, supporting multithreaded rendering, parallelization of operations, use of vector instructions (SIMD), realistic lighting simulation, and ray processing on both GPU and CPU, as well as realistic lighting simulation on […]

Valve has released Proton 8.0-2, a package for running Windows games on Linux.

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Valve has released an update for the Proton 8.0-2 project, which is based on the Wine codebase and aimed at ensuring the launch of gaming applications developed for Windows on Linux and available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to directly run gaming applications available only for Windows in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]

Mozilla has acquired Fakespot and plans to integrate its developments into Firefox.

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Mozilla has announced the acquisition of the startup Fakespot, which develops a browser extension that uses machine learning to detect fake reviews, inflated ratings, fraudulent sellers, and deceptive discounts on marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Sephora, and Best Buy. The extension is available for Chrome and Firefox browsers, as well as for mobile platforms iOS and Android. Mozilla plans to […]

VMware has released the Linux distribution Photon OS 5.0

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The release of the Linux distribution Photon OS 5.0 has been announced, aimed at providing a minimalist host environment for running applications in isolated containers. The project is developed by VMware and is noted as suitable for deploying industrial applications, including additional elements to enhance security and offering extended optimizations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute, and Google Compute Engine. The source codes […]

Debian 11.7 release update and the second release candidate for the Debian 12 installer.

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The seventh correction update of the Debian 11 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 92 updates addressing stability problems and 102 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.7 include updates to newer stable versions of packages such as clamav, dpdk, flatpak, galera-3, intel-microcode, mariadb-10.5, nvidia-modprobe, postfix, postgresql-13, […]

Release of Wine 8.7

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.7 — has been announced. Since the release of version 8.6, 17 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. The most important updates include continued work on adding full Wayland support. In the vkd3d component, an API has been implemented for parsing (vkd3d_shader_parse_dxbc) and serializing (vkd3d_shader_serialize_dxbc) DXBC binary data. Based on this API, calls to d3d10_effect_parse() have been implemented, […]

Microsoft will add Rust code to the Windows 11 kernel

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David Weston, Vice President of Microsoft responsible for Windows operating system security, shared information about the development of Windows protection mechanisms in his report at the BlueHat IL 2023 conference. Among other things, he mentioned progress in leveraging the Rust language to enhance the security of the Windows kernel. Moreover, it was stated that Rust-written code might be integrated into the Windows 11 kernel possibly as early as […]

Fedora 39 proposes to publish an atomically updatable Fedora Onyx build.

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Joshua Strobl, a key developer of the Budgie project, has published a proposal to include Fedora Onyx among the official Fedora builds. Fedora Onyx is an atomically updated version of Fedora Linux with the Budgie desktop environment, complementing the classic Fedora Budgie Spin and reminiscent of Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Sericea, and Fedora Kinoite editions that come with GNOME, Sway, and KDE. The Fedora Onyx edition is proposed to be provided starting […]

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