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Release of the GNU Shepherd initialization system 0.9.2

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The GNU Shepherd 0.9.2 service manager (formerly dmd) has been released, developed by the GNU Guix System distribution team as an alternative to the SysV-init initialization system, which supports dependencies. The managing daemon and Shepherd utilities are written in Guile (one of the implementations of the Scheme language), which is also used to define the settings and parameters for launching services. Shepherd is already utilized in the GuixSD GNU/Linux distribution and […]

Debian 11.5 and 10.13 Update

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The fifth corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, including accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release includes 58 updates addressing stability issues and 53 updates for security vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.5 include: Updated to the latest stable versions of packages clamav, grub2, grub-efi-*-signed, mokutil, nvidia-graphics-drivers*, nvidia-settings. The cargo-mozilla package has been added […]

The free audio codec FLAC 1.4 has been released.

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After nine years since the last significant version release, the Xiph.Org community has presented a new version of the free codec FLAC 1.4.0, which provides lossless audio encoding. FLAC employs only lossless coding methods that ensure complete preservation of the original sound stream's quality and its identity with the reference version that has been encoded. Additionally, the compression methods used are […]

Release of the free 3D modeling system Blender 3.3

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The Blender Foundation has released the free 3D modeling package Blender 3.3, suitable for various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The release has been designated as a long-term support release […]

Release of Wine 7.17

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.17 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.16, 18 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. Key changes include: Added support for upper code ranges (planes) in DirectWrite. The Vulkan driver has begun implementation to support WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. Bug reports closed […]

Fedora 39 is set to transition to DNF5, free from components written in Python.

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Ben Cotton, Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat, announced plans to transition Fedora Linux to use the DNF5 package manager by default. Fedora Linux 39 is set to replace the dnf, libdnf, and dnf-cutomatic packages with the DNF5 toolkit and the new libdnf5 library. This proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) responsible for […]

Monocraft has been released, an open font for programmers in the style of Minecraft

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A new monospaced font, Monocraft, has been released, optimized for use in terminal emulators and code editors. The characters in the font are styled to resemble text in the game Minecraft, but have been further refined for improved readability (for instance, the appearance of similar characters like 'i' and 'l' has been redesigned) and expanded with a set of ligatures for programmers, such as arrows and comparison operators. Source […]

Microsoft has released a test version of SQL Server 2022 for Linux.

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Microsoft has announced the start of testing the release candidate for the Linux version of SQL Server 2022 (RC 0). Installation packages have been prepared for RHEL and Ubuntu. Ready-to-use container images with SQL Server 2022, based on RHEL and Ubuntu distributions, are also available for download. The test release for SQL Server 2022 for Windows was created on August 23. It is noted that in addition to the general […]

Release of the LDAP server ReOpenLDAP 1.2.0.

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The formal release of the LDAP server ReOpenLDAP 1.2.0 has been published, created to resurrect the project after its repository was blocked on GitHub. In April, GitHub deleted the accounts and repositories of many Russian developers associated with companies that fell under U.S. sanctions, including the ReOpenLDAP repository. Due to the revived user interest in ReOpenLDAP, the project has been decided to be brought back to life. The ReOpenLDAP project was created in […]

The Go language toolkit has been updated to include the ability to track vulnerabilities in modules.

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The Go programming language toolkit has implemented the ability to track vulnerabilities in libraries. To check their projects for dependencies with unpatched vulnerabilities, a utility called 'govulncheck' has been proposed, which analyzes the project's codebase and produces a report on the use of vulnerable functions. Additionally, a package 'vulncheck' has been prepared, providing an API for integrating checks into various projects and utilities. Checking […]

Versions of uBlock Origin and AdGuard with support for the third version of the Chrome manifest have been prepared.

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Raymond Hill, the author of the uBlock Origin ad blocking systems, has published an experimental browser extension called uBO Minus, which implements a version of uBlock Origin translated to the declarativeNetRequest API, as mandated in the third version of the Chrome manifest. Unlike the classic uBlock Origin, the new extension utilizes the built-in browser engine's capabilities for content filtering and does not require […]

Distrobox 1.4 toolkit for nested launching published

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The Distrobox 1.4 toolkit has been released, allowing users to quickly install and run any Linux distribution in a container and ensure its integration with the host system. The project's code is written in Shell and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project provides a wrapper over Docker or Podman and is distinguished by its maximum simplification of the operation and integration of the launched environment with the rest of the system. To create an environment with another […]

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