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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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]