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A corrective release of the Apache OpenOffice office suite 4.1.14 is now available, which includes 27 fixes. Packages are prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. In this new release, the method for encoding and storing the master password has been changed, so users are advised to back up their OpenOffice profile before installing version 4.1.14, as the new profile will be incompatible with previous releases. Among the changes […]
The leader of the UBports project, who has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch and the Unity 8 desktop after Canonical stepped away from them, announced the integration of packages with the Lomiri environment (formerly Unity 8) and the Mir 2 display server into the 'unstable' and 'testing' branches of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. It is noted that the UBports leader is continuously using […]
Barry Kauler, the founder of the Puppy Linux project, has released an experimental distribution EasyOS 5.0, which combines Puppy Linux technologies with container isolation for running system components. The distribution is managed through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. The size of the boot image is 825 MB. In this new release, application versions have been updated. Almost all packages have been rebuilt from source using the project's metadata […]
Developers of Debian have announced the testing of a new non-free-firmware repository, which includes firmware packages moved from the non-free repository. The second alpha release of the Debian 12 'Bookworm' installer includes the ability to dynamically request firmware packages from the non-free-firmware repository. Having a separate firmware repository allows access to firmware without including the general non-free repository on installation media. In accordance with […]
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11.3 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.3 (BLFS) guides have been introduced, along with LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch, using only the source code of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building […]
Microsoft has released contributions related to the CHERIoT project (Capability Hardware Extension to RISC-V for Internet of Things), aimed at blocking security issues in existing code written in C and C++. CHERIoT offers a solution that allows the protection of existing C/C++ codebases without the necessity of redesigning them. The protection is implemented through the use of a modified compiler that utilizes a special extended set […]
A correct release of Firefox 110.0.1 is now available, which addresses several issues: A bug was fixed that caused all cookies to be deleted when the buttons to clear cookies for the last 5 minutes, 2 hours, or 24 hours were pressed. A crash issue on the Linux platform that occurred while using WebGL and launching the browser in a VMWare virtual machine has been resolved. A bug that led to overlapping in macOS has been corrected […]
The release of mruby 3.2 has been presented, an embedded interpreter for the dynamic, object-oriented programming language Ruby. Mruby ensures basic syntax compatibility at the Ruby 3.x level, except for support for pattern matching ("case .. in"). The interpreter features low memory consumption and is aimed at embedding Ruby language support into other applications. The interpreter embedded in the application can execute both source code in the language […]
Canonical employees have revealed information about the ubuntu-mini-iso project, which is developing a new minimalist version of Ubuntu, approximately 140 MB in size. The main idea of the new installation image is to make it universal, allowing the installation of any official version of Ubuntu. The project is being developed by Dan Bungert, who oversees the Subiquity installer. At this stage, a working version has already been prepared and tested […]
The first set of patches developed by the Wine-wayland project has been proposed for inclusion in the main Wine repository, providing the ability to use Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without using XWayland and X11 components. Since the volume of changes is quite large, to simplify the review and integration process for Wine-wayland developments, they plan to gradually transfer this work, breaking it down into several phases. In the first phase […]
An attack on users of the NPM registry has been recorded, resulting in over 15,000 packages being uploaded to the NPM repository on February 20, in which README files contained links to phishing sites or referral links that pay commissions for clicks. Analysis revealed 190 unique phishing or advertising links covering 31 domains within the packages. The names of the packages […]
An additional paragraph has been added to the terms of use for the GitHub service, notifying users that if they offer a product or service that competes with GitHub, they either allow comparative testing or are prohibited from using GitHub. This change aims to counter products or services using GitHub that compete with GitHub, particularly those that explicitly prohibit competitive testing (anti-benchmarking) in their terms […]