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The release of the Tor 0.4.7.7 toolkit, used for organizing the anonymous Tor network, has been presented. Version Tor 0.4.7.7 is recognized as the first stable release of branch 0.4.7, which has developed over the past ten months. The 0.4.7 branch will be supported as part of the standard maintenance cycle — updates will cease after 9 months or 3 months following the release of branch 0.4.8.x. The main changes in the new […]
According to Bloomberg, China plans to completely stop using computers and operating systems from foreign companies in government agencies and state-owned enterprises within two years. It is expected that this initiative will require the replacement of at least 50 million computers from foreign brands, which must be swapped for equipment from Chinese manufacturers. Preliminary reports indicate that the directive will not apply to hard-to-replace components, such as processors. […]
Martin Wimpress, co-founder of the Ubuntu MATE team and a member of the Core Team of the MATE project, has released a utility called deb-get, which offers apt-get-like functionalities for working with deb packages distributed through third-party repositories or available for direct download from project websites. The deb-get utility includes standard package management commands such as update, upgrade, show, install, remove, and search, but […]
The Nextcloud Hub 24 platform has been released, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration among enterprise employees and teams working on various projects. Simultaneously, the underlying cloud platform Nextcloud 24 has been published, allowing the deployment of a cloud storage system that supports data synchronization and sharing, enabling data viewing and editing from any device anywhere on the network (when […]
The Wine-wayland project version 7.7 has been released, developing a set of patches and the driver winewayland.drv, enabling the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol, without the use of XWayland and X11 components. It allows running games and applications that utilize the Vulkan and Direct3D 9/11/12 graphics APIs. Direct3D support is implemented through the DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API. The set also includes patches […]
The release of the Kubernetes 1.24 container orchestration platform is now available, enabling unified management of a cluster of isolated containers and providing mechanisms for deploying, maintaining, and scaling applications running in containers. The project was originally created by Google but has since been transferred to an independent platform curated by the Linux Foundation. The platform is positioned as a community-driven universal solution, not tied to specific […]
GitHub has announced its decision to require all users of the GitHub.com service involved in code development to use two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. According to GitHub, unauthorized access to repositories due to account hijacking is one of the most serious threats, as a successful attack may allow for the injection of hidden changes […]
After seven months of development and eight years since the last significant release, a corrective release of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 office suite has been formed, offering 10 fixes. Ready packages have been prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Among the changes in the new release: The issue with setting the maximum zoom level (600%) in preview mode when specifying a negative value in the 'Preview Zoom' field has been resolved […]
After two years since the release of the last significant branch, a stable release of the OpenMediaVault 6 distribution has been published, allowing for quick deployment of network-attached storage (NAS). The OpenMediaVault project was established in 2009 following a split among developers of the FreeNAS distribution, where alongside the classic FreeNAS based on FreeBSD, a fork was created, with developers aiming to […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 994 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual system […]
Cisco has unveiled a significant new release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.105.0, as well as published corrective releases ClamAV 0.104.3 and 0.103.6 to address vulnerabilities and bugs. Recall that the project came under Cisco's ownership in 2013 after the acquisition of Sourcefire, which developed ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements in ClamAV 0.105 include […]
A vulnerability has been discovered in the standard C libraries uClibc and uClibc-ng, used in many embedded and portable devices (CVE not assigned), allowing spoofed data to be injected into the DNS cache. This can be exploited to replace the cached IP address of any domain and redirect requests to the domain to the attacker's server. The issue affects various Linux firmware for routers, access points, and Internet of Things devices, as […]