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Google has released version 108 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, continuous Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys for Google API, and data transmission with […]
The Cryptsetup 2.6 utilities suite has been released, designed for configuring disk partition encryption in Linux using the dm-crypt module. It supports working with dm-crypt, LUKS, LUKS2, BITLK, loop-AES, and TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt partitions. It also includes utilities veritysetup and integritysetup for configuring data integrity control mechanisms based on dm-verity and dm-integrity modules. Key improvements: Added support for encrypted storage devices […]
The wayland-protocols package version 1.31 has been released, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the basic Wayland protocol and provide the necessary features for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols undergo three phases: development, testing, and stabilization. After completing the development stage (unstable category), the protocol is moved to the staging branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols set, […]
A corrective release of Firefox 107.0.1 is available, which fixes several issues: Resolved the problem with accessing some websites that use code to counteract ad blockers. The issue was evident in private browsing mode or when enabling strict unwanted content blocking mode. Fixed a bug that rendered Color Management tools inaccessible to some users. The following has been corrected […]
Oracle has released version 9.1 of its Oracle Linux distribution, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 and fully binary-compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images of 9.2 GB and 839 MB have been made available for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Unrestricted and free access to the yum repository is open for Oracle Linux 9 […]
Developers of the openSUSE project have announced increased hardware requirements in the openSUSE Factory repository and the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution based on it, which utilizes a rolling release cycle for software updates. Package builds in Factory will be conducted for the x86-64-v2 architecture, while official support for x86-64-v1 and i586 architectures will be discontinued. The second version of the x86-64 microarchitecture is supported by processors approximately […]
The Live edition of the Salix 15.0 distribution has been released, providing a bootable working environment that does not require installation on a disk. Changes made during the current session can be saved to a separate area of a USB drive to continue working after a reboot. The distribution is developed by the creator of Zenwalk Linux, who left the project due to conflicts with other developers advocating for a policy of maximum similarity to Slackware. Salix 15 is fully compatible with Slackware […]
Cisco has introduced a new major release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.0.0. This new branch is notable for its shift to traditional release numbering 'Major.Minor.Patch' (instead of 0.Version.Patch). The significant version change is also due to modifications in the libclamav library that break ABI-level compatibility due to the removal of the namespace CLAMAV_PUBLIC, changes to argument types in the cl_strerror function, and the inclusion of symbols into the namespace for […]
Alexander Larsson, the creator of Flatpak, working at Red Hat, has presented a preliminary version of patches implementing the Composefs filesystem for the Linux kernel. The proposed filesystem resembles Squashfs and is also suitable for mounting images in read-only mode. The differences come down to providing efficient shared storage of contents from multiple mounted disk images in Composefs and supporting […]
After nearly a year of development, a new release of OpenRGB 0.8, an open toolkit for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices, has been published. The package supports motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI with RGB subsystems for case lighting, memory modules with lighting from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair, and HyperX, ASUS Aura/ROG graphics cards, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro, and Gigabyte Aorus, various LED strip controllers […]
The developers of the Nitrux project have introduced new releases of components used to build the interface in the Maui DE (Maui Shell) user environment. Maui DE forms a set of applications called Maui Apps, the Maui Shell interface, and the MauiKit framework for building user interfaces that offer ready-made templates for interface elements. The development also utilizes the Kirigami framework, which is developed by the KDE community and serves as an extension over […]
The release of Rocky Linux 9.1, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can replace the classic CentOS, has been announced. This release is marked as ready for production deployment. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.1 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31 […]