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The release of systemd 252 includes support for UKI (Unified Kernel Image).

After five months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 252 has been presented. The key change in the new version is the integration of support for an upgraded boot process, allowing for the verification of digital signatures not only for the kernel and bootloader but also for components of the base system environment. The proposed method involves using a unified kernel image (UKI) for booting, which combines the kernel boot handler […]

Release of Wine 7.20 and Wine staging 7.20

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.20 has been made. Since the release of version 7.19, 29 bug reports have been closed and 302 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the Wine Mono engine with the .NET platform implementation has been updated to version 7.4. A font binding mechanism has been added, allowing one or more fonts to be bound to another font. During binding […]

For the open operating system Haiku, which continues the development of BeOS ideas, a layer has been prepared to ensure compatibility with Wayland, allowing toolkits and applications that use this protocol to run.

A vulnerability CVE-2022-40284 has been identified in the ntfs-3g utility from the NTFS-3G set, which offers a user-space implementation of the NTFS file system. This vulnerability could potentially allow code to be executed with root privileges in the system when mounting a specially crafted partition. The vulnerability has been patched in the NTFS-3G 2022.10.3 release. It was caused by an error in the metadata parsing code in NTFS partitions, leading to a buffer overflow when processed in a certain way […]

A compatibility layer for Wayland has been implemented for Haiku.

An adaptation layer for compatibility with Wayland has been prepared for the open operating system Haiku, which continues to develop the ideas of BeOS, allowing toolkits and applications that use this protocol to run, including applications based on the GTK library. The layer was developed by Ilya Chugin, who is also working on the Haiku port for the RISC-V architecture and the adaptation of Wine for Haiku. The layer provides the library libwayland-client.so, based on […]

Release of GNU Make 4.4

After nearly three years of development, the release of the GNU Make 4.4 build system has occurred. In addition to bug fixes, notable changes in the new version include: The deprecation of OS/2 (EMX), AmigaOS, Xenix, and Cray platforms, which will be dropped in the next release. The requirements for the build environment have been raised; a compiler that supports features from the C99 standard is now necessary to build GNU Gnulib. […]

Google Discontinues JPEG XL Support in Chrome

Google has decided to discontinue the experimental support for the JPEG XL format in the Chrome browser and will completely remove it in version 110 (up to this point, JPEG XL support had been disabled by default and required changes to the setting in chrome://flags). One of the Chrome developers cited reasons for this decision: Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely. […]

Release of outline-ss-server 1.4, the Shadowsocks proxy implementation from the Outline project

The release of the outline-ss-server proxy server version 1.4 has been published, which utilizes the Shadowsocks protocol to hide the nature of traffic, bypass firewalls, and evade packet inspection systems. The server is developed by the Outline project, which also provides a wrapper of client applications and a management interface, allowing for quick deployment of multi-user Shadowsocks servers based on outline-ss-server in public cloud environments or on one's own hardware, managing them through a web interface, and organizing […]

Vulnerabilities in the web interface of Juniper network devices shipped with JunOS

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in the J-Web web interface used in Juniper's networking devices running the JunOS operating system, the most critical of which (CVE-2022-22241) allows remote code execution without authentication through a specially crafted HTTP request. Users of Juniper equipment are advised to install firmware updates, and if not possible, to ensure that access to the web interface is blocked […]

Release of the Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.10 distribution.

The release of the Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.10 distribution is now available, offering a pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tiling window manager. This distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 22.10, designed with both experienced GNU/Linux users and newcomers in mind, who wish to try out a tiling window manager environment without the need for extensive setup. Builds are available for […]

The FreeBSD codebase has added a new implementation of the WireGuard VPN.

The FreeBSD source tree has been updated with a new implementation of the WireGuard VPN, based on kernel module code collaboratively developed by the core FreeBSD and WireGuard teams with participation from Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of the WireGuard VPN, and John H. Baldwin, a well-known GDB and FreeBSD developer, who implemented SMP and NUMA support in the early 2000s […]

SQLite has added support for WASM to use the DBMS in web browsers.

SQLite developers are advancing the project to implement the ability to compile the library into WebAssembly intermediate code, enabling it to run in a web browser and suitable for database operations from web applications in JavaScript. The code to support WebAssembly has been added to the main project repository. Unlike the WebSQL API, which is based on SQLite, WASM SQLite is fully isolated from the browser and […]

Release of Zorin OS 16.2, a distribution for users accustomed to Windows or macOS

The release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 16.2 has been announced, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 package base. The target audience of this distribution is beginner users who are accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows users to give their desktop a look reminiscent of various versions of Windows and macOS, and it includes a selection of applications similar to those users are familiar with in Windows. For […]

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