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On May 20, 2026, FreeBSD developers announced the patching of seven new vulnerabilities in the system. Not all of them are equally dangerous, but some are quite concerning. CVE-2026-45251 is a use-after-free in select-like syscalls if there are process descriptors in their wait list (in FreeBSD 15—new jail descriptors), and those descriptors were closed in another thread while the waiting syscall […]
The release of OpenDDS 3.34.0 has taken place—an open C++ implementation of the Object Management Group Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems specification. DDS is used for building distributed systems based on the publish-subscribe model, and OpenDDS, apart from C++, provides Java/JNI bindings and relies on ACE/TAO. The release was published on May 21, 2026, with ready-to-use archives available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The project is distributed […]
The Wine team released VKD3D 2.0—a major release of the library that enables applications to work with Direct3D 12 over Vulkan. VKD3D is used in the regular upstream Wine for supporting D3D12 applications; it should not be confused with VKD3D-Proton, a separate gaming branch by Valve used in Proton/Steam Play. The project is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 or later. The source […]
At the Linux App Summit conference, Sebastian Wick, the maintainer of the Flatpak toolkit, and Adrian Vovk, the creator of the installer for GNOME OS and one of the developers of systemd-homed and systemd-sysupdate, gave a talk on the future of self-contained Flatpak packages. The talk mentions the intention to create a new systemd-appd process for Flatpak, which will provide information about running […]
The release of the lightweight distribution MX Linux 25.2 has been published, created through collaboration between communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. This release is based on the Debian package base, incorporating improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution offers the choice of using sysVinit and systemd initialization systems. It includes proprietary tools for configuring and deploying the system. For […]
The latest release of Apache NetBeans has been introduced—an integrated development environment that supports programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and more. The IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. This release includes bug fixes and enhancements for Gradle, Maven, and Ant build system support; bug fixes and improvements for Java: the autocomplete for component types has been corrected […]
On May 19, the first public release of version 0.6.0 of the very minimalist cross-platform browser Nordstjernen (Norwegian for "North Star") took place. The project is written in C and distributed under the Nordstjernen Source v1.0 license, transitioning to the MIT license ten years after publication. The browser uses GTK4 and a number of third-party libraries: Lexbor for parsing HTML, CSS, and URLs; […]
Today the stable release of the web browser Vivaldi 8.0 was announced. In this version, the developers fully unified the browser interface, so that all toolbars are now on a single continuous surface — a unified frame that encompasses the entire browser. Instead of stacked layers, everything is presented in one visual plane. This makes the interface more cohesive and logical. Additionally, now […]
At the 2026 Open-Source Summit, Linus Torvalds spoke in the opening session about trends in the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development. According to Linus, the volume of commits has significantly increased over the past six months. For example, during the last two kernel releases, about 20% more commits were made compared to earlier branches. This change is explained by the fact that over the past […]
The PuTTY 0.84 release has been created, a client for the SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP protocols, provided with a built-in terminal emulator and supporting operation in Unix-like systems and Windows. The project's source code is available under the MIT license. In the new version: An option has been added to run user-specified commands before establishing a network connection, which can be useful for organizing connections to servers, […]
The release of WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" has taken place, the next major version of the free content management system distributed under the GPLv2 or later license. The release was initially scheduled for May 20, 2026, after being postponed from the April date: the developers released additional RC builds to test architectural changes before the final build. WordPress 7.0 includes over 419 fixes and changes in Core Trac, including […]
Red Hat has announced the availability of new releases of the enterprise distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8. The updates develop two supported branches of RHEL and focus on three areas: preparing infrastructure for post-quantum cryptography, automating updates, and advancing the image-based approach to system deployment. Red Hat emphasizes that the new versions are aimed at […]