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The team responsible for managing accounts in the Debian project has downgraded Norbert Preining's status for inappropriate behavior in the private mailing list debian-private. In response, Norbert has decided to cease his involvement in Debian development and join the Arch Linux community. Norbert has been involved in Debian development since 2005 and has maintained around 150 packages, primarily […]
Red Hat has initiated legal proceedings against Daniel Pocock regarding the trademark infringement of Fedora in the domain name WeMakeFedora.org, which published criticism directed at participants of the Fedora project and Red Hat. Representatives of Red Hat demanded the transfer of domain rights to the company, as it violates the registered trademark, but the court sided with the defendant […]
The OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation), established by the Linux Foundation and aimed at enhancing the security of open-source software, has published a new edition of the Census II study, aimed at identifying open projects in need of urgent security audits. The study focuses on the analysis of shared open code that is implicitly used in various corporate projects in the form of dependencies downloaded from external repositories. In […]
Developers of the ReactOS operating system, designed to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers, announced the readiness of an initial set of patches for booting the project on multiprocessor systems with SMP mode enabled. Changes to support SMP are not yet included in the main codebase of ReactOS and require further refinement, but the fact that it can be booted with SMP mode enabled is noted […]
The HTTP Server Apache 2.4.53 has been released, featuring 14 changes and addressing 4 vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-22720 — a potential HTTP Request Smuggling attack that allows specially crafted client requests to be injected into the content of requests from other users, transmitted via mod_proxy (for example, this can enable the injection of malicious JavaScript code into the session of another user on the site). The issue is caused by leaving incoming connections open […]
The Debian developers have published a plan for freezing the package base for the upcoming Debian 12 release, codenamed 'Bookworm'. The release of Debian 12 is expected in mid-2023. The first phase of the package base freeze will begin on January 12, 2023, during which 'transitions' (the updating of packages that require dependency adjustments for other packages, resulting in temporary removals from Testing) will cease, and […]
Microsoft, Igalia, and Bloomberg have launched an initiative to include type syntax in the JavaScript specification, similar to the syntax used in TypeScript. Currently, a prototype of the changes proposed for inclusion in the ECMAScript standard is under preliminary discussion (Stage 0). At the upcoming TC39 committee meeting in March, it is planned to move to the first stage of consideration of the proposal with […]
The first stable release of the Offpunk console browser has been published, supporting not only the opening of Web pages but also working with Gemini, Gopher, and Spartan protocols, in addition to reading news feeds in RSS and Atom formats. The program is written in Python and is distributed under the BSD license. A key feature of Offpunk is its focus on offline content browsing. The browser allows you to subscribe to pages or mark […]
The release of TUF 1.0 (The Update Framework) has been announced, providing tools for securely checking for and downloading updates. The main goal of the project is to protect clients against common attacks on repositories and infrastructures, including combating the delivery of fake updates promoted by attackers who gain access to signatures or compromise the repository. The project is developed under the auspices of the Linux […]
The Blender Foundation has released the Blender 3.1 free 3D modeling suite, suitable for various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Pre-built binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Among the improvements added in Blender 3.1: For the system […]
The future of the elementary OS distribution is in question due to a conflict between the project's founders who cannot agree on the company overseeing development and managing incoming funds. The company was co-founded by Cassidy Blaede and Danielle Foré (formerly Daniel Foré), who worked on the project full-time, receiving […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.4 — has been announced. Since the release of version 7.3, 14 bug reports have been closed and 505 changes made. The most significant changes include: The 'Light' theme is enabled by default. The main package has integrated the vkd3d 1.3 library with a Direct3D 12 implementation, working through calls translated to the Vulkan graphic API. WineD3D, D3D12 […]