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An update has been released for the open-source platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.18, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with development overseen by the community following a collaborative model.
The release of the Nmap 7.93 network security scanner is now available, designed for network auditing and identifying active network services. This release was announced on the 25th anniversary of the project. Over the years, the project has evolved from a conceptual port scanner published in 1997 in Phrack magazine into a fully functional application for network protection analysis and identifying used server applications.
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.38 virtualization system, which includes 8 fixes. Key changes: Initial support for Linux 6.0 kernel has been implemented in the guest system extensions based on Linux, and the support for kernel packages from the RHEL 9.1 distribution branch has been enhanced. The installer for host and guest system extensions on Linux has improved verification of the presence of ...
An update for the Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS distribution has been formed, which includes changes related to hardware support improvements, updates for the Linux kernel and graphical stack, and bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. It also includes current updates for several hundred packages related to vulnerability fixes and issues affecting stability. Simultaneously, similar updates for Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.5 LTS, Kubuntu ... have been presented.
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11.2 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.2 (BLFS) manuals have been introduced, along with LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source texts of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building ...
Google has released version 105 of the Chrome web browser. Concurrently, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by utilizing Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google APIs, and transmission under […]
The release of the Armbian 22.08 Linux distribution has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including different models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard running on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are created using Debian package repositories […]
The release of the free graphical client Nicotine+ 3.2.5 for the P2P file-sharing network Soulseek has occurred. Nicotine+ aims to be a user-friendly, free open-source alternative to the official Soulseek client, offering additional functionality while maintaining compatibility with the Soulseek protocol. The client's code is written in Python using the GTK graphical library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for GNU/Linux, […]
The release of the QEMU 7.1 project has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows a program built for one hardware platform to run on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of the hardware system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and the involvement of […]
The developers of the Apache OpenOffice office suite have reported surpassing 333 million downloads for the project (according to SourceForge statistics — 352 million), made since the first release of Apache OpenOffice in May 2012. The milestone of 300 million downloads was reached in late October 2020, 200 million — in late November 2016, and 100 million — […]
GitLab has released another series of corrective updates for its collaborative development platform — 15.3.2, 15.2.4, and 15.1.6, in which a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-2992) has been fixed, allowing an authenticated user to execute code remotely on the server. Similar to the CVE-2022-2884 vulnerability fixed a week ago, the new issue is present in the API for importing data from GitHub. The vulnerability also manifests itself in […]
A corrective release of Firefox 104.0.1 is available, which fixes an issue with video playback stopping on the YouTube site. The problem is caused by the reuse of the device for accelerating video decoding and primarily occurs on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards. As a workaround for this issue, you can set the parameters media.wmf.zero-copy-nv12-texture and gfx.direct3d11.reuse-decoder-device to false on the page about:config. Additionally, […]