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CodeWeavers has released Crossover 22, a package based on Wine code designed to run applications and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is one of the key participants in the Wine project, sponsors its development, and contributes back all innovations realized for its commercial products. The source code for the open components of Crossover 22 is available for download on this page. […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 104 has taken place. Additionally, updates for long-term support branches — 91.13.0 and 102.2.0 — have been formulated. The Firefox 105 branch will enter beta testing within the next few hours, with its release scheduled for September 20. Key innovations in Firefox 104 include the addition of the experimental QuickActions mechanism, allowing various standard actions to be performed from the browser's address bar. For example, […]
The release of the Cosmopolitan 2.0 project has been published, which develops the standard C library and a universal executable file format applicable for distributing programs across different operating systems without the need for interpreters or virtual machines. The output from compilation with GCC and Clang results in a statically linkable universal executable file suitable for running on any Linux distribution, macOS, and Windows. […]
Flathub, a web catalog and repository for self-contained packages in Flatpak format, has begun testing changes developed in collaboration with Codethink aimed at providing key developers and maintainers of applications distributed via Flathub with monetization opportunities for their offerings. The developed features can be evaluated on the test site beta.flathub.org. Among the changes available for testing is support for connecting developers to Flathub with […]
The Register conducted tests on memory and disk consumption after installing different editions of the Ubuntu 21.04 distribution in a VirtualBox virtual machine with various desktops. The testing included Ubuntu with GNOME 42, Kubuntu with KDE 5.24.4, Lubuntu with LXQt 0.17, Ubuntu Budgie with Budgie 10.6.1, Ubuntu MATE with MATE 1.26, and Xubuntu with Xfce 4.16. The lightest […]
Google has warned about the discontinuation of support for the Server Push technology in the upcoming Chrome 106 release, scheduled for September 27. The changes will also affect other browsers based on the Chromium codebase. The Server Push technology is defined in the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 standards, allowing the server to send resources to the client without waiting for an explicit request. It is expected that this way the server can speed up […]
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 7.4. Ready-to-use installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. A total of 147 developers participated in the release preparation, of which 95 are volunteers. 72% of the changes were made by employees from the three sponsoring companies — Collabora, Red Hat, and Allotropia, while 28% of the changes were introduced by independent enthusiasts. The LibreOffice release […]
Martijn Braam, one of the key developers of the postmarketOS distribution, announced his departure from the Pine64 community, which is focused on creating open devices, due to the project's shift toward a single specific distribution instead of supporting an ecosystem of various distributions working together on the software stack. Initially, Pine64 used a delegation strategy for the development of software for its devices to the Linux distribution developer community and formed […]
GitHub has released a report detailing notifications of intellectual property violations and the publication of illegal content received in the first half of 2022. Previously, such reports were published annually, but now GitHub has switched to biannual disclosures. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States, in […]
Researchers from Faraday Security presented at DEFCON details of the exploitation of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-27255) in the SDK for Realtek RTL819x chips, allowing code execution on the device through the sending of specially crafted UDP packets. The vulnerability is notable because it allows attacks on devices where access to the web interface for external networks is disabled — an attack can be carried out simply by sending a single UDP packet. […]
Google has released update 104.0.5112.101 for Chrome, which fixes 10 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-2852) that allows bypassing all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details are not yet disclosed, but it is known that the critical vulnerability is related to a use-after-free issue in the implementation of the FedCM (Federated Credential Management) API, […]
Valve has released project Proton 7.0-4, which is based on the Wine project codebase and aims to enable the running of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog. The project’s developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows the direct launching of Windows-only gaming applications in the Linux client of Steam. The package includes the implementation of […]