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The curl utility for transferring data over networks turned 25 years old. In honor of this occasion, a new significant branch, cURL 8.0, has been formed. The first release of the previous curl 7.x branch was made in 2000, and since then the codebase has increased from 17,000 to 155,000 lines of code, and the number of command-line options has reached 249, implementing […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.11 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and intended for anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data is stored with encryption for persisting between sessions […]
The GNOME project has released version 1.3 of the Libadwaita library, which includes a set of components for styling user interfaces according to GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) recommendations. The library includes ready-made widgets and objects for building applications that conform to the overall GNOME style, allowing their interfaces to adapt responsively to screens of any size. The library's code is written in C and is distributed under […]
The release of SystemRescue 10.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux intended for system recovery after a failure. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 747 MB (amd64). Changes in the new version include: The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.1. Support for the configuration file GRUB loopback.cfg has been added, a variant of grub.cfg for booting the Live distribution from an ISO file. Handlers for configuring […]
The developers of the XCP-ng platform, which is being developed under the Xen project, have published a plan to create replacements for various components of the Xen software stack using the Rust language. The Xen hypervisor is not currently planned for a rewrite; the focus is primarily on reworking individual tool components. Currently, the platform uses components written in C, Python, OCaml, and Go, some of which are outdated […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.4. Since the release of version 8.3, 51 bug reports have been closed and 344 changes have been made. The most significant changes include initial support for using Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without the need for XWayland and X11 components. At this stage, the winewayland.drv driver and components have been added […]
The release of a new stable branch of WebKitGTK 2.40.0, the port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform, has been announced. WebKitGTK allows access to all WebKit capabilities through a GNOME-oriented API based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to creating fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include the default […]
The VPN provider NordVPN has announced the release of the client source code for the Linux platform, the networking library Libtelio, and the file sharing library Libdrop. The code is open under the GPLv3 license. The development utilized programming languages Go, Rust, C, and Python. The Linux client provides a command-line interface for managing connections to NordVPN servers and allows users to select a server from a list based on their preferences […]
Debian developers have announced that Debian 12 has entered the hard freeze stage before release, during which the process of transitioning key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing is completely halted, marking the beginning of an intensive testing and blocking release issues fixing phase. The hard freeze stage is seen as a necessary intermediate step before the full freeze, which will encompass all packages. The full freeze […]
Developers of certain open projects hosting container images in the Docker Hub directory have received notice of the imminent termination of the 'Docker Free Team' subscription service, which was previously provided free of charge to organizations managing open projects. The option for individual developers to host images for free will remain available. Officially supported images of open projects will continue to be hosted for free. According to Docker, this change will affect about 2% […]
The release of OpenSSH 9.3 has been published, which is an open implementation of clients and servers for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new version addresses security issues: a logic error was identified in the ssh-add utility, which caused restrictions defined by the 'ssh-add -h' option not to be passed to the ssh-agent when adding keys for smart cards. As a result, a key was added to the agent […]
The release of the Kali Linux 2023.1 distribution has been announced, coinciding with the project's tenth anniversary. The distribution is based on Debian and is intended for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the aftermath of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created as part of the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several packages have been prepared for download […]