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The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.1 has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The results can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally developed between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.11 suite of internet applications has taken place, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product. It offers pre-installed add-ons, including the IRC client Chatzilla, the DOM Inspector web development tools, and the Lightning calendar-scheduler. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.1 (BLFS) guides have been presented, along with LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source codes of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on assembling […]
The Free Software Foundation announced the appointment of Zoë Kooyman as the new executive director, a position that became vacant following the departure of John Sullivan, who held the position since 2011. Zoë joined the Foundation in 2019 and served as a project manager. It is noted that Zoë has experience in managing international projects and organizing events. […]
Updates for the OpenWrt distribution 19.07.9 and 21.02.2 have been released, targeting application in various network devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports multiple different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows for easy and convenient cross-compilation, including various components in the build, making it easy to create firmware tailored to specific tasks or […]
After two and a half years since the last release, the Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre 0.4 project has been released, which is part of the Free Software Foundation's list of fully free distributions. Hyperbola is based on stabilized snapshots of the Arch Linux package base with some patches from Debian for improved stability and security. Hyperbola builds are available for i686 and x86_64 architectures (1.1 GB). The project […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 22.02 has been presented, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors. Debian package bases are used for building the distributions […]
The AlmaLinux 8.5 distribution, previously released for x86_64 and ARM/AArch64 systems, now supports the PowerPC (ppc64l) architecture. Three types of ISO images are available for download: bootable (770 MB), minimal (1.8 GB), and full (9 GB). The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 and can be used as a drop-in replacement for CentOS 8. Changes consist of rebranding, […]
The release of CoreBoot 4.16 has been announced, which develops a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. 170 developers contributed to the new version, which includes 1770 changes. Major new features: support for 33 motherboards has been added, 22 of which are used in devices with Chrome OS or on Google servers. Among the unmentioned […]
SQLite 3.38 has been released, a lightweight database management system presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released as public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restrictions for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially established consortium, which includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Major changes: support for operators -> […]
Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-0735) have been fixed in corrective updates for GitLab collaborative development platform versions 14.8.2, 14.7.4, and 14.6.5. These vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized users to extract registration tokens in GitLab Runner, used for triggering handlers during project code compilation in continuous integration systems. Details are not provided yet, only that the issue is caused by information leakage when using Quick command […]
The GNUnet 0.16 framework has been released, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks. The networks created with GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the privacy of user information, including excluding potential abuses by security services and administrators who have access to the network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, […]