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The board of the Perl project has summarized plans for the further development of the Perl 5 branch and the creation of the Perl 7 branch. During discussions, the board agreed that breaking compatibility with already written Perl 5 code is unacceptable, unless such a break is necessary to address vulnerabilities. The board also concluded that the language should evolve and […]
The release of the AlmaLinux 9.0 distribution has been formed, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution and containing all proposed changes for this branch. The AlmaLinux project has become the first publicly available distribution based on the RHEL package base to release stable builds based on RHEL 9. Installation images have been prepared for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of a bootable (800 MB), minimal (1.5 […]
In the release of the NTFS-3G project 2022.5.17, which develops the driver and set of utilities for working with the NTFS file system in user space, 8 vulnerabilities allowing privilege escalation in the system have been fixed. These issues were caused by inadequate checks when processing command-line options and when working with metadata in NTFS partitions. CVE-2022-30783, CVE-2022-30785, CVE-2022-30787 are vulnerabilities in the NTFS-3G driver built with […]
The release of the anonymous network I2P 1.8.0 and the C++ client i2pd 2.42.0 has taken place. I2P is a multi-layered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively utilizing end-to-end encryption to guarantee anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and forms itself through the resources (bandwidth) provided by its users, allowing for the avoidance of centrally managed servers (communications within the network […]
The release of the Electron 19.0.0 platform has been prepared, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications, using components from Chromium, V8, and Node.js as its foundation. The significant version change is associated with the update to Chromium codebase 102, Node.js platform 16.14.2, and JavaScript engine V8 10.2. Among the changes in the new release: A new method has been added to BrowserWindow that allows you to modify […]
Google has released version 102 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the open-source project Chromium, which underpins Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash reporting system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, continuous Sandbox isolation, provision of Google API keys, and transmission of […]
The release of version 3.1 of the Stratis project, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community for the unification and simplification of configuration and management tools for one or more local storage pools, has been published. Stratis provides features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. Stratis support has been integrated into Fedora and RHEL distributions since […]
The 2.8 release of the Mir display server has been introduced, continuing development by Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical’s projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing execution in environments […]
The release of the Clonezilla Live 3.0.0 Linux distribution, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied), has been announced. The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 356 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects like DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting from […]
After 13 months of development, a new stable branch of the high-performance HTTP server and multiprotocol proxy server nginx 1.22.0 has been released, incorporating changes collected in the main branch 1.21.x. In the future, all changes in the stable branch 1.22 will be focused on fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. A major branch of nginx 1.23 will soon be formed, in which development will continue […]
The release of OpenIKED 7.1 has been published, which implements the IKEv2 protocol developed by the OpenBSD project. Initially, IKEv2 components were an inseparable part of the OpenBSD IPsec stack, but they are now separated into a portable package and can be used in other operating systems. For instance, the operation of OpenIKED has been verified on FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and various Linux distributions including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. The code is written in […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.16 is available, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl standard library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution features enhanced security requirements and is compiled with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) enabled. OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its own package manager, apk, is utilized for package management. Alpine is used for creating official Docker container images. Bootable […]