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Google has introduced the first beta version of the open mobile platform Android 14. The release of Android 14 is expected in the third quarter of 2023. A beta testing program has been proposed to evaluate the new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for the Pixel 7/7 Pro, Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, and Pixel 4a (5G) devices. Changes in Android 14 Beta 1 compared to […]
The Firefox 112 web browser has been released. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch — 102.10.0 — has been formed. The Firefox 113 branch will soon enter beta testing, with its release scheduled for May 9. Key features in Firefox 112 include the addition of the 'Reveal Password' option to the context menu that appears when right-clicking in the password input field […]
The release of 4MLinux 42.0 has been announced, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a live environment for multimedia playback and user tasks but also as a recovery system and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […]
The Xenoeye Netflow collector is now available, which allows the collection of statistics on traffic flows from various network devices using Netflow v9 and IPFIX protocols, processing data, generating reports, and building graphs. Additionally, the collector can run custom scripts when thresholds are exceeded. The project core is written in C, and the code is distributed under the ISC license. Features of the collector include aggregated data based on necessary […]
Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-1281, CVE-2023-1829) have been discovered in the Linux kernel, allowing local users to elevate their privileges within the system. To exploit these vulnerabilities, the user needs the ability to create and modify traffic classifiers, which is available with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights that can be obtained by having the capability to create user namespaces. The issues appear starting from kernel 4.14 and have been fixed in the 6.2 branch […]
The release of the cryptographic library Botan 3.0.0 is available, used in the NeoPG project, a fork of GnuPG 2. The library provides a large collection of ready-made primitives utilized in the TLS protocol, X.509 certificates, AEAD ciphers, TPM modules, PKCS#11, password hashing, and post-quantum cryptography (hash-based signatures and key agreement based on McEliece). The library is written in C++ and is provided under the BSD license. […]
After 11 months of development, FreeBSD 13.2 has been released. Installation images have been created for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant have been prepared. Key changes: The ability to create snapshots of UFS and FFS file systems has been implemented, […]
The release of the open-source UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.3 has been announced. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the developers of NetBSD, which resulted in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After this, Theo de Raadt, along with a group of like-minded individuals, created a new open-source operating system based on the NetBSD source tree […]
The release of Minetest 5.7.0 has taken place, a free cross-platform sandbox game engine that allows the creation of various voxel constructions, survival, mining resources, growing crops, etc. The game is written in C++ using the IrrlichtMt 3D library (a fork of Irrlicht 1.9-dev). The main feature of the engine is that gameplay is entirely dependent on a set of mods created in Lua and installed […]
VMS Software, which acquired the rights from Hewlett-Packard to continue developing the OpenVMS (Virtual Memory System) operating system, has provided enthusiasts with the opportunity to download the port of OpenVMS 9.2 for the x86_64 architecture. In addition to the system image file (X86E921OE.ZIP), license keys for the community edition (x86community-20240401.zip), valid until April of the following year, are also offered for download. The OpenVMS 9.2 release is marked as the first full version available […]
The release of project Fonoster 0.4.0, which develops an open alternative to Twilio service, is now available. Fonoster allows you to deploy a cloud service on your infrastructure, providing a Web API for making and receiving calls, sending and receiving SMS messages, creating voice applications, and executing other communication functions. The project's code is written in JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license. Key features of the platform include tools for creating programmable […]
The release of package manager DNF 4.15, which is the default in Fedora Linux and RHEL distributions, is now available. DNF is a fork of Yum 3.4, adapted for use with Python 3 and using the hawkey library as a backend for resolving dependencies. Compared to Yum, DNF offers significantly higher speed, lower memory consumption, and better […]