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The Sculpt 23.04 project release has been introduced, which is based on the Genode OS Framework technologies to develop a general-purpose operating system suitable for everyday tasks by average users. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A LiveUSB image is available for download, sized at 28 MB. It supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystems enabled […]
The release of the browser extension Linguist 5.0 has taken place, providing full-featured translation of pages, as well as selected and manually entered text. The extension also includes a dictionary with bookmarks and extensive configuration options, including adding custom translation modules in the settings page. The code is distributed under the BSD license. It supports operation in browsers based on the Chromium engine, Firefox, and Firefox for Android. Key changes in the new version: […]
As part of the ongoing reorganization of the Solus distribution, in addition to transitioning to a more transparent management model focused in the hands of the community and not dependent on one person, a decision has been announced to use technologies from the SerpentOS project in the development of Solus 5, which is being developed by the old Solus distribution development team, including Ikey Doherty (creator of Solus) and Joshua Strobl (key […]
Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.40.1, 2.39.3, 2.38.5, 2.37.7, 2.36.6, 2.35.8, 2.34.8, 2.33.8, 2.32.7, 2.31.8, and 2.30.9 have been published, addressing five vulnerabilities. You can track the package updates for distributions on the pages of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE/openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, FreeBSD. As a workaround for protecting against vulnerabilities, it is recommended to avoid executing the command […]
Researchers from Horizon3 have pointed out security issues in most installations of the Apache Superset data analysis and visualization platform. Out of 3,176 studied public servers running Apache Superset, 2,124 were found to be using a generic encryption key that is set by default in the sample configuration file. This key is utilized in the Flask Python library to generate session cookies, allowing someone with knowledge of […]
The Qbs 2.0 build tool release has been presented. Building Qbs requires Qt among its dependencies, although Qbs itself is designed for organizing the build of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define project build scripts, allowing for the definition of quite flexible build rules that can include external modules, use JavaScript functions, and create arbitrary rules […]
A corrective release of Firefox 112.0.2 is available, which fixes three issues: A bug causing excessive memory consumption when displaying animated images in minimized windows (or in windows covered by other windows) has been fixed. Among other things, the problem also manifests when using animated themes. The leak intensity with YouTube open is approximately 13 MB per second. The problem with […]
Testing has begun for the new web browser Opera One, which will replace the current Opera browser after stabilization. Opera One continues to use the Chromium engine and features a completely redesigned modular architecture, multi-threaded rendering organization, and new tab grouping capabilities. Builds of Opera One are prepared for Linux (deb, rpm, snap), Windows, and MacOS. The transition to a multi-threaded rendering engine has significantly […]
The Director of Red Hat announced in an internal corporate newsletter about the upcoming layoffs of hundreds of employees. Currently, there are 2,200 employees in the Red Hat headquarters and another 19,000 working in branches around the world. The exact number of positions being cut has not been specified, only that layoffs will occur in several stages and will not affect […]
The results of the annual Debian Project Leader elections have been announced. Jonathan Carter has won, being re-elected for a fourth term. A total of 274 developers participated in the voting, which represents 28% of all eligible voters, the lowest turnout in the project's history (last year it was 34%, the year before 44%, and the historical maximum is 62%). In […]
The release of CRIU 3.18 (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) has been published, aimed at saving and restoring processes in user space. The toolkit allows saving the state of one or a group of processes and then resuming operations from the saved position, including after a system reboot or on another server without breaking already established network connections. The project's code is distributed under the […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.3. Among the most notable changes: cleanup of outdated ARM platforms and graphics drivers, continued integration of Rust language support, a hwnoise utility, support for red-black tree structures in BPF, BIG TCP mode for IPv4, a built-in Dhrystone performance test, the ability to disable execution in memfd, and support for creating HID drivers using BPF in Btrfs […]