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Volker Hilsheimer has been appointed as the Chief Maintainer of the Qt project, replacing Lars Knoll, who held the position for the last 11 years and announced his departure from Qt Company last month. The leader's candidacy was approved during a general vote of maintainers. With a majority of 24 votes against 18, Hilsheimer surpassed Alan […]
Microsoft has announced the integration of Linux environment support based on the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) framework in the recently released June cumulative update for Windows Server 2022. Initially, the WSL2 subsystem, which allows the execution of Linux executables on Windows, was offered only in Windows versions for workstations. To enable the execution of Linux executables in WSL2 instead of using an emulator, […]
The first release of the new main branch nginx 1.23.0 has been introduced, under which the development of new capabilities will continue. Changes in the parallelly supported stable branch 1.22.x are limited to addressing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Next year, a stable branch 1.24 will be formed based on the main branch 1.23.x. Key changes: The internal API has been revamped, header strings are now passed in […]
The developers of the AlmaLinux distribution, which is a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux similar to CentOS, have presented a new build system ALBS (AlmaLinux Build System), already utilized in the releases of AlmaLinux 8.6 and 9.0, prepared for x86_64, Aarch64, PowerPC ppc64le, and s390x architectures. In addition to building the distribution, ALBS is also used for generating and publishing correction updates (errata), and for ensuring […]
Engineers from Facebook (banned in the Russian Federation) have published a report on the implementation last year of the TMO (Transparent Memory Offloading) technology, which allows for significant savings in RAM on servers by offloading unnecessary secondary data to cheaper storage, such as NVMe SSDs. According to Facebook's estimates, the use of TMO can save between 20% and 32% […]
A toolkit has been released that implements the method for detecting extensions installed in the Chrome browser. The resulting list of extensions can be used to increase the accuracy of passive identification of a specific browser instance, combined with other indirect features such as screen resolution, WebGL characteristics, installed plugin lists, and fonts. The proposed implementation checks for the installation of more than 1000 extensions. An online demonstration is suggested to test your system. Detection […]
The release of the Manjaro Linux 21.3 distribution, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, has taken place. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers. Manjaro is available in live builds with graphical environments KDE (3.5 GB), GNOME (3.3 GB), and Xfce (3.2 GB).
The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 22.06.15 distribution, based on FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE, has been announced. It offers the MATE user environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. Both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive are supported, utilizing its own installer ginstall, written in Python. Boot images are prepared for the x86_64 architecture (2.7 GB). In this new version, automation has been enhanced.
A new significant release of the multi-protocol instant messaging client Miranda NG 0.96.1 has been published, continuing the development of the Miranda program. Supported protocols include Facebook, ICQ, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, SkypeWeb, Steam, Tox, Twitter, and VKontakte. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The program currently supports only the Windows platform, but work has begun on implementing support for other platforms.
A corrective release of the Tor toolkit 0.4.7.8, used for organizing the work of the anonymous Tor network, has been announced. This new version fixes a vulnerability (CVE-2021-38385) that can be exploited for remotely initiated denial of service attacks. The potential impact of the issue on anonymity is also a concern. The problem can cause the process to terminate due to an assert-check failure when there is a discrepancy between digital signature verification results together and separately.
An experimental release of the open Wine implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.11 — has been made available. Since the release of version 7.10, 34 bug reports have been closed and 285 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The driver for Android has been transitioned to use the PE (Portable Executable) file format instead of ELF. In the winegstreamer library, support for direct output mode (without intermediate buffering, zero-copy) of multimedia content has been implemented.
The company Canonical has released the toolkit for managing isolated containers, LXC 5.0, providing a runtime suitable for launching containers with a complete system environment, similar to virtual machines, as well as for running unprivileged containers of standalone applications (OCI). LXC is a low-level tool that operates at the level of individual containers. For centralized management of containers deployed in a cluster of multiple […]