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The developers of the Arch Linux distribution have warned users about infrastructure migration work scheduled from May 19 to 21 to transition package development from Subversion to Git and GitLab. During the migration days, the publication of package updates in the repositories will be suspended and access to primary mirrors will be limited via rsync and HTTP. After the migration is complete, access to SVN repositories will be closed, […]
Researchers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Technology have released the LTESniffer toolkit, which allows passive traffic interception (without sending signals) between the base station and the mobile phone in 4G LTE networks. The toolkit provides utilities for organizing traffic interception and implements an API for using LTESniffer functionality in third-party applications. LTESniffer ensures decoding of the physical channel […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-28936) has been fixed in the Apache OpenMeetings web conference server, which allows access to arbitrary records and chat rooms. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level. The vulnerability is caused by improper hash verification used for connecting new participants. The error appears starting from release 2.0.0 and has been resolved in the recently released Apache OpenMeetings 7.1.0 update. Additionally, […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.8 has occurred. Since the release of version 8.7, 18 bug reports have been closed, and 253 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Initial support for loading ARM64EC modules (ARM64 Emulation Compatible), which is applied to simplify the porting of applications originally written for the x86_64 architecture to ARM64 systems by providing the capability to run in an environment […]
The release of the DXVK 2.2 layer, providing the implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure) and Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, is now available, operating through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.3 are required, such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The release of the D8VK 1.0 project, which offers an implementation of the Direct3D 8 graphics API that works through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API, allowing 3D applications and games developed for Windows that rely on the Direct3D 8 API to run on Linux using Wine or Proton, has been unveiled. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Zlib license. The basis for […]
The release of the lightweight HTTP server lighttpd 1.4.70 has occurred, aiming to combine high performance, security, standards compliance, and configurability. Lighttpd is suitable for use on high-load systems and focuses on low memory and CPU resource consumption. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. Key changes include: Enhanced startup speed for CGI scripts in mod_cgi. Experimental support for building for […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have published the financial report for the year 2022. Over the year, the project received donations amounting to $6.4 million (in 2019, $1.5 million was raised, in 2020 — $2.3 million, and in 2021 — $2.8 million), enabling it to develop successfully on its own. The project's expenses totaled $3.569 million (in 2020 — $1.5 million, in […]
The release of web browser Firefox 113 has occurred, and an update for the long-term support branch—102.11.0—has been created. The Firefox 114 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for June 6. Key features in Firefox 113 include the display of the entered search query in the address bar instead of showing the URL of the search engine (i.e., the keys are shown in the address bar not only in […]
Vulnerabilities have been identified in the Linux kernel subsystems Netfilter and io_uring that allow a local user to escalate privileges in the system: A vulnerability (CVE-2023-32233) in the Netfilter subsystem, caused by accessing memory after it has been freed (use-after-free) in the nf_tables module, which supports the nftables packet filtering. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending specially crafted requests to update the nftables configuration. For the attack to take place […]
Lennart Poettering discussed preparations to add a soft reboot mode to the system manager systemd ('systemctl soft-reboot'), which restarts only user space components without affecting the Linux kernel. It is expected that, compared to a regular reboot, the soft reboot will reduce downtime during updates of environments using ready-made system images. The new mode will allow all processes to terminate […]
Chris Lattner, founder and chief architect of LLVM, as well as the creator of the Swift programming language, along with Tim Davis, former head of AI projects at Google such as Tensorflow and JAX, have introduced a new programming language, Mojo, which combines ease of use for research developments and rapid prototyping with the capability for producing high-performance end products. This is achieved through the use of […]