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After nine months of development, the stable release of Wayland 1.22, a protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries, has been presented. The 1.22 branch is backward compatible at the API and ABI level with 1.x releases and contains primarily bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The composite server Weston, providing code and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, is evolving in […]
SUSE has released the third prototype of the ALP 'Piz Bernina' (Adaptable Linux Platform), positioned as a continuation of the development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution. The key distinction of ALP is the separation of the distribution's core into two parts: a trimmed-down 'host OS' for running on hardware and a layer for application support, focusing on running in containers and virtual machines. ALP is initially being developed with […]
Owen Taylor, creator of GNOME Shell and the Pango library, part of the development working group for Fedora Workstation, has proposed a plan for default encryption of system partitions and user home directories in Fedora Workstation. The transition to default encryption is expected to provide data protection in case of laptop theft, as well as protection against attacks on unattended […]
The release of the FerretDB project 1.0 has been published, allowing the document-oriented database MongoDB to be replaced by PostgreSQL without modifying application code. FerretDB acts as a proxy server, translating MongoDB queries into SQL requests for PostgreSQL, enabling PostgreSQL to serve as the actual storage. Version 1.0 is marked as the first stable release ready for widespread use. The code is written in Go and […]
The release of a graphic editor for children's creativity — Tux Paint 0.9.29 has been announced. The program is designed to teach drawing for children aged 3 to 12 years. Binary builds are available for Linux (rpm, Flatpak), Haiku, Android, macOS, and Windows. In this release, 15 new 'magic' tools, effects, and filters have been added. For example, a Fur tool for creating fur effects has been included, Double […]
The Tor project and VPN provider Mullvad have introduced the jointly developed Mullvad Browser, focused on user privacy protection. Technically, Mullvad Browser is based on the Firefox engine and incorporates nearly all changes from the Tor Browser, primarily differing in that it does not use the Tor network and sends requests directly (a version of Tor Browser without Tor). It is expected that the Mullvad Browser can […]
The Qt Company has released the Qt 6.5 framework, which continues to stabilize and enhance functionality in the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.5 supports platforms including Windows 10+, macOS 11+, Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, openSUSE 15.4, SUSE 15 SP4, RHEL 8.4/9.0), iOS 14+, Android 8+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, and QNX. The source code for Qt components […]
The release of the uutils coreutils toolkit 0.0.18 is available, which is being developed as an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils that can also run on platforms […]
The release of RT-Thread 5.0, a real-time operating system (RTOS) for Internet of Things devices, has been published. The system has been developed since 2006 by a community of Chinese developers and is now ported for nearly 200 platforms, chips, and microcontrollers based on x86, ARM, MIPS, C-SKY, Xtensa, ARC, and RISC-V architectures. The minimalist version of RT-Thread (Nano) requires only 3 KB of Flash to operate […]
After nine years of work, the last components of the Firefox codebase that utilized the XUL namespace for the interface rendering have been removed. Thus, with a few exceptions, standard web technologies (primarily CSS flexbox) are now used for rendering the Firefox user interface instead of specific XUL handlers (-moz-box, -moz-inline-box, -moz-grid, -moz-stack, -moz-popup). As an exception, XUL continues to be used for rendering system […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.5 has taken place. Since the release of version 8.4, 21 bug reports have been closed, and 361 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Support for configuring a dark theme in WinRT has been added. The vkd3d package implementing Direct3D 12, which operates through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API, has been updated to version 1.7. Changes have been made in the IDL compiler […]
The Blender Foundation has released version 3.5 of its free 3D modeling package Blender, suitable for various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation creation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Precompiled builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Additionally, a corrective release of Blender 3.3.5 has been prepared in the branch […]