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A release of the APT 2.6 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been formed, incorporating changes accumulated in the experimental branch 2.5. Besides Debian and its derivatives, the APT-RPM fork is also used in some distributions based on the rpm package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. The new release is integrated into the Unstable branch and will be moved soon […]
The LibreELEC 11.0 project release has been presented, developing a fork of the OpenELEC distribution for creating home theater systems. The user interface is based on the Kodi media center. Images for booting have been prepared for use with USB drives or SD cards (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 2/3/4, various devices on Rockchip, Allwinner, NXP, and Amlogic chips). The build size for the x86_64 architecture is 226 MB. When […]
Thorsten Kukuk, leader of the Future Technology Team at SUSE (developing openSUSE MicroOS and SLE Micro), who previously led the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server project for 10 years, proposed eliminating the /var/run/utmp file in distributions to fully resolve the 2038 problem in Glibc. All applications using utmp, wtmp, and lastlog are suggested to be migrated […]
The release of Snoop version 1.3.3 has been published, enhancing the OSINT tool that searches for user accounts in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the presence of the desired username, i.e., it detects on which sites a user with the specified nickname is found. The project is developed based on research materials in the field of scraping [...]
The source code of the initial implementation of a virtual machine developed from scratch has been published. The project is notable for having the code written in a Russian version of C (for instance, instead of int — it is цел, long — длин, for — это для, if — если, return — вернуть, etc.). The localization of the language is achieved through macro substitution and is implemented using the inclusion of two header files ru_stdio.h and keywords.h. The source […]
The GNOME Shell user interface and the Mutter compositor have been fully transitioned to use the GTK4 library, eliminating the hard dependency on GTK3. Additionally, the dependency gnome-desktop-3.0 has been replaced with gnome-desktop-4 and gnome-bg-4, while libnma has been updated to libnma4. Overall, GNOME still remains tied to GTK3, as not all applications and libraries have been ported to GTK4. For example, on GTK3 […]
A group of German researchers, developers, and cryptographers has published the first release of the Rosenpass project, which develops a VPN and key exchange mechanism resistant to attacks from quantum computers. The transport used is VPN WireGuard with standard encryption algorithms and keys, while Rosenpass complements it with means of key exchange secured against hacking by quantum computers (i.e., Rosenpass additionally secures key exchange, not […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.3 has been announced. Since the release of version 8.2, 29 bug reports have been closed, and 230 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: support for smart cards implemented through a PCSC-Lite layer. Low Fragmentation Heap support has been added for memory allocation. The Zydis library has been included for more accurate […]
The release of the PortableGL 0.97 project has been published, developing a software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, written entirely in C (C99). Theoretically, PortableGL can be used in any applications that accept a texture or frame buffer as input data. The code is formatted as a single header file and is distributed under the MIT license. The stated goals include portability, compliance with the OpenGL API, ease of use, […]
The release of the Thorium 110 project has been published, developing a periodically synchronized fork of the Chromium browser, enhanced with additional patches for performance optimization, improved usability, and increased security. According to tests by Thorium's developers, it outperforms stock Chromium by 8-40% in performance, primarily due to the inclusion of extra optimizations during compilation. Ready builds are available for Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, and Windows. The main differences are […]
The release of strongSwan 5.9.10 is now available, a free package for creating VPN connections based on the IPSec protocol, used in Linux, Android, FreeBSD, and macOS. The new version fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-26463) that can be exploited to bypass authentication but could also potentially lead to the execution of attacker's code on the server or client side. The issue occurs when verifying specially crafted certificates […]
Maíra Canal from Igalia presented a project to rewrite the VGEM (Virtual GEM Provider) driver in Rust. VGEM includes around 400 lines of code and provides a hardware-agnostic backend for GEM (Graphics Execution Manager), used for shared access to buffers of software 3D device drivers such as LLVMpipe, to enhance the performance of software rasterization. VGEM […]
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