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SQLite 3.40 has been released, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released as public domain, meaning it can be freely used without restrictions for any purpose. Developers of SQLite receive financial support from a consortium that includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: An experimental compilation option has been implemented […]
The wayland-protocols set has added a tearing-control extension, which enhances the basic Wayland protocol with the capability to disable vertical synchronization (VSync) with frame-doubling impulse in fullscreen applications, used to prevent tearing during output. In multimedia applications, artifacts due to tearing are an undesirable effect, but in gaming programs, artifacts may be acceptable if the measures to combat them result in […]
The release of IWD 2.0 (iNet Wireless Daemon), developed by Intel as an alternative to the wpa_supplicant toolkit for connecting Linux systems to wireless networks, is now available. IWD can be used independently or as a backend for network configurators like Network Manager and ConnMan. The project is suitable for embedded devices and optimized for minimal memory consumption […]
After 6 years since the last release, the Linux distribution wattOS 12 is now available, built on the Debian package base and delivered with the LXDE desktop environment and the PCManFM file manager. The distribution aims to be simple, fast, minimalist, and suitable for use on outdated hardware. The project was founded in 2008 and was originally developed as a minimalist edition of Ubuntu. The size of the installation […]
The Stockfish project has announced a settlement in the lawsuit with ChessBase, which was accused of violating the GPLv3 license by including code from the open-source chess engine Stockfish in its proprietary products Fat Fritz 2 and Houdini 6 without releasing the source code of the derivative work and without informing customers about the use of GPL code. The agreement provides for the withdrawal of the notice against ChessBase […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-43781) has been discovered in Bitbucket Server, a package for deploying a web interface for working with git repositories, allowing a remote attacker to execute code on the server. The vulnerability can be exploited by an unauthenticated user if self-registration is allowed on the server (the “Allow public signup” setting is enabled). Exploitation is also possible by an authenticated user who has permission to change their username (i.e., has […]
The release of project labwc 0.6 (Lab Wayland Compositor) is available, developing a compositor server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Among the features of labwc are minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options, and high performance. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Based on […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.6 desktop environment has been formed, in which the Linux Mint distribution community develops a fork of the GNOME Shell, the Nautilus file manager, and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing an environment in the classic GNOME 2 style with support for successful interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]
Oracle has released a corrective version of the VirtualBox virtualization system 7.0.4, which includes 22 fixes. Key changes include: Improved startup scripts for hosts and guest systems based on Linux. Initial support for kernels from SLES 15.4, RHEL 8.7, and RHEL 9.1 has been implemented in Linux guest system additions. The handling of kernel module rebuilding has been refined […]
The release of the AlmaLinux 9.1 distribution has been formed, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 distribution and containing all the proposed changes in this release. Installation images have been prepared for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (840 MB), minimal (1.6 GB), and full images (8.6 GB). Later, Live builds with GNOME, KDE, and Xfce will be generated, as well as images […]
Red Hat has released the distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1. Ready installation images are available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (you can also use the iso images of CentOS Stream 9 for functionality evaluation). The release is built for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. The source code of rpm packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is available in […]
The first stable release of the new branch of the MariaDB database management system 10.10 (10.10.2) has been published, which branches off from MySQL, maintaining backward compatibility and featuring the integration of additional storage engines and enhanced capabilities. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent organization MariaDB Foundation, following an open and transparent development process, independent of specific vendors. MariaDB is supplied instead of MySQL in many […]