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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, […]
The toolkit for organizing work in isolated environments, Bubblewrap 0.6, is now available. It is commonly used to limit individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is employed by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. Isolation employs traditional Linux container virtualization technologies based on […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.3 has occurred. Since the release of version 7.2, 15 bug reports have been closed and 650 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Continued support for the 'long' type in the code (over 230 changes). Proper support for Windows API sets has been implemented. Ongoing translation of USER32 and WineALSA libraries to use the PE executable file format […]
The first experimental release of the Neptune OS project has been published, which develops a layer over the seL4 microkernel with the implementation of Windows NT kernel components, aimed at providing support for running Windows applications. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project implements 'NT Executive', one of the levels of the Windows NT kernel (NTOSKRNL.EXE), responsible for providing NT Native system call APIs and an interface for driver operation. In Neptune […]
During the discussion of a set of patches fixing issues related to Spectre-class vulnerabilities in the code for linked list processing, it became clear that the problem could be solved more elegantly if the kernel allowed C code corresponding to a newer version of the standard. Currently, the code added to the kernel must comply with the ANSI C (C89) specification, […]
After more than a year of development, a new release of the dahliaOS 220222 operating system has been published, combining technologies from GNU/Linux and the Fuchsia OS. The project's developments are written in Dart and are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. dahliaOS builds are available in two variants — for UEFI systems (675 MB) and older systems/virtual machines (437 MB). The base distribution of dahliaOS is built on […]
The Mir 2.7 display server release has been presented, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and Ubuntu editions for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in 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 compositing server for Wayland, allowing applications to run in environments […]
An update for the Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS distribution has been released, which includes changes related to improved hardware support, updates to the Linux kernel and graphics stack, and bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. Also included are up-to-date updates for several hundred packages aimed at fixing vulnerabilities and stability issues. Concurrently, similar updates have been released for Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.4 LTS, Kubuntu […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings — NetworkManager 1.36.0 — is now available. Plugins for VPN support, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN, and OpenSWAN are being developed within their respective development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.36 include a significant overhaul of IP address configuration code, but the changes mostly affect internal handlers. For users, everything should work as before, except for a slight performance boost, […]