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After a year of development, FreeBSD 13.1 has been released. Installation images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additional builds have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. In the new version: An iwlwifi driver for Intel wireless cards with support for […]
The release of the Rocky Linux 8.6 distribution has occurred, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS, after Red Hat abruptly ended support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, instead of 2029, as previously anticipated. This is the third stable release of the project, recognized as ready for production deployments. Rocky Linux builds have been prepared […]
A corrective release of Firefox 101.0.1 is available, notable for enhancing sandbox isolation on the Windows platform. The new version includes by default the blocking of access to the Win32k API (Win32 GUI components operating at the kernel level) from isolated content processing processes. This change was made ahead of the Pwn2Own 2022 competition, which will take place from May 18-20. Participants of Pwn2Own will demonstrate working exploitation techniques for previously unknown vulnerabilities and in […]
Michael R Sweet, the author of the CUPS printing system, has released PAPPL 1.2, a framework for developing printing applications based on the IPP Everywhere protocol, which is recommended for use instead of traditional printer drivers. The framework code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license with an exception allowing linking with code under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. […]
A method to bypass code execution isolation systems in Python has been published, based on a long-known bug that appeared in Python 2.7, identified in 2012 and still unpatched in Python 3. This bug allows specially crafted Python code to access already freed memory (Use-After-Free) in CPython. Originally, it was assumed that […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-30333) has been discovered in the unrar utility, allowing specially crafted archive extraction to overwrite files outside the current directory, subject to user permissions. The issue has been resolved in RAR 6.12 and unrar 6.1.7 releases. The vulnerability affects versions for Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, but does not impact builds for Android and Windows. The problem arises from inadequate checks against the ‘/..’ sequence […]
After a year and a half of development, iXsystems has released TrueNAS CORE 13, a distribution for quickly deploying network-attached storage (NAS). TrueNAS CORE 13 is based on the FreeBSD 13 codebase, featuring integrated ZFS support and management through a web interface built using the Django Python framework. It supports FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and […]
A new release of the classic toolkit for managing the iptables packet filter 1.8.8 has been published, with recent development focused on components to maintain backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables and ebtables, but translating the received rules into bytecode nf_tables. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables, is included in […]
A stable release of the interface to simplify network parameter configuration — NetworkManager 1.38.0 is now available. Plugins for supporting VPN, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN, and OpenSWAN are developed under their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.38 include: The logic for selecting the source address has been revamped when multiple IP addresses exist on the network interface. The rules for establishing priority for IPv6 addresses have been aligned with the rules previously applied […]
The release of the Alt Workstation K 10 distribution has been published, shipped with a graphical environment based on KDE Plasma. Boot images have been prepared for the x86_64 architecture (HTTP, Yandex mirror, Distrib Coffee, Infania Networks). The operating system has been registered in the Unified Register of Russian Software and meets the requirements for transitioning to infrastructure based on domestic operating systems. The KDE-based build is the final part of the overall update […]
The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 7.1 has been published, implementing a server for online editors ONLYOFFICE and facilitating collaboration. The editors can be used to work with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project's code is distributed under the free license AGPLv3. At the same time, the release of the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 7.1 product has been formed, built on a unified codebase with the online editors. The desktop editors are presented as desktop applications, […]
Google has announced its joining the OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation) initiative, formed by the Linux Foundation and aimed at enhancing the security of open-source software. As part of its participation, Google has created and will fund the work of a separate team of engineers, the 'Open Source Maintenance Crew,' which will collaborate with maintainers of critically important open projects on issues related to strengthening […]