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Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.26

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The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.26 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the basic Wayland protocol and provide features necessary for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases — development, testing, and stabilization. After the development stage is completed (the 'unstable' category), the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols set, […]

The release of the nDPI packet deep inspection system 4.4

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The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has published the release of the nDPI toolkit for deep packet inspection 4.4, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established following an unsuccessful attempt to submit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has been left unsupported. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for identifying protocols used in traffic […]

Release of the wxWidgets 3.2.0 graphical toolkit.

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After 9 years since the release of the 3.0 branch, the first release of the new stable branch of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.2.0 has been announced, allowing for the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX, and mobile platforms. Compared to the 3.0 branch, a number of API-level incompatibilities have been observed. The toolkit is written in C++ and is distributed under the wxWindows Library License, which is approved […]

Release of the text recognition system Tesseract 5.2

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The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.2 has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The output can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. Initially, the system was created between 1985 and 1995 at the Hewlett Packard laboratory, in […]

The Ubuntu MATE distribution has created builds for Raspberry Pi platforms.

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The developers of the Ubuntu MATE distribution, built on the Ubuntu package base and offering a desktop environment based on the MATE project, have announced the formation of builds for Raspberry Pi boards. The builds are based on the Ubuntu MATE 22.04 release and are prepared for both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards. Notable features include: Default inclusion of the zswap mechanism and the lz4 algorithm for […]

Lennart Poettering has left Red Hat and secured a position at Microsoft.

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Lennart Poettering, creator of projects such as Avahi (an implementation of the ZeroConf protocol), the PulseAudio sound server, and the system manager systemd, has resigned from Red Hat, where he worked since 2008 and led the development of systemd. His new workplace is said to be Microsoft, where Lennart's activities will also be related to the development of systemd. Microsoft uses […]

Firefox 102.0.1 update

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A corrective release of Firefox 102.0.1 is now available, addressing several shortcomings: Fixed an issue that prevented spell checking in content that combined words in English and non-Latin-based languages. For example, the issue prevented the identification of errors in Cyrillic text when both English and Russian dictionaries were enabled. A bug causing flickering white background has been fixed in […]

Oracle Linux 9 and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 are now available.

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Oracle has released stable versions of the Oracle Linux 9 distribution and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 (UEK R7), positioned for use within the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard kernel package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Oracle Linux 9 distribution is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 package base and is fully binary compatible with […]

Decentralized identifiers will be standardized despite Google's and Mozilla's objections.

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Tim Berners-Lee announced the decision to grant the specification defining decentralized identifiers for the Web (DID, Decentralized Identifier) recommended standard status. Objections raised by companies Google and Mozilla have been rejected. The DID specification introduces a new type of unique global identifier that is not tied to individual centralized services and organizations, such as domain registrars and certificate authorities. An identifier can be […]

Release of Monitoring System Zabbix 6.2

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A new version of the open-source monitoring system Zabbix 6.2 has been introduced. This release includes performance enhancements, flexible operations with automatically discovered hosts, detailed process monitoring, significant improvements in monitoring the VMWare platform, new visualization and data collection tools, an expanded list of integrations and templates, and much more. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Zabbix — […]

Release of Porteus distribution 5.0

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The release of the Live distribution Porteus 5.0 has been published, built on the Slackware Linux 15 package base and offering builds with custom environments Xfce, Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and OpenBox. The distribution's components are selected for minimal resource consumption, allowing Porteus to run on outdated hardware. Notable features also include high boot speed. Compact Live images of about […] are available for download.

A vulnerability in the Django web framework that may lead to SQL code injection.

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Corrective releases of the web framework Django 4.0.6 and 3.2.14 have been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2022-34265) that could potentially allow for SQL code injection. The issue affects applications that use unverified external data in the parameters kind and lookup_name passed to the functions Trunc(kind) and Extract(lookup_name). Programs that only allow verified data in lookup_name and kind are not affected by this vulnerability. The issue has been blocked through restrictions […]

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