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The main branch release of nginx 1.21.6 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (only changes related to serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the concurrently supported stable branch 1.20). Key changes include: Fixed an issue with uneven distribution of client connections among worker processes observed when using EPOLLEXCLUSIVE on Linux systems; Fixed a bug where nginx returned responses […]
The release of the minimalist Linux distribution Tiny Core Linux 13.0 has been formed, which can operate on systems with 48 MB of RAM. The graphical environment of the distribution is based on the Tiny X server, the FLTK toolkit, and the FLWM window manager. The distribution loads entirely into RAM and operates from memory. The new release features updates to system components, including the Linux kernel 5.15.10, glibc 2.34, […]
Correction releases of versions 4.15.5, 4.14.12, and 4.13.17 have been published to address 3 vulnerabilities. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2021-44142) allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on a system running a vulnerable version of Samba. This issue is rated 9.9 out of 10 in severity. The vulnerability manifests only when using the VFS module vfs_fruit with default parameters (fruit:metadata=netatalk or fruit:resource=file), providing an additional level […]
The release of Minetest 5.5.0 has been introduced, an open cross-platform variant of the game MineCraft, allowing groups of players to collaboratively build various structures from standard blocks, creating a virtual world (sandbox genre). The game is written in C++ using the irrlicht 3D engine. Lua is used for extension development. The Minetest code is distributed under the LGPL license, while game resources are under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Ready-made […]
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel in the rlimit handling code across different user identifier namespaces (user namespaces) (CVE-2022-24122), permitting privilege escalation in the system. The issue occurs starting from Linux kernel 5.14 and will be fixed in updates 5.16.5 and 5.15.19. Stable branches of Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE/openSUSE, and RHEL are not affected, but the issue is present in newer kernels […]
The release of the uutils coreutils 0.0.12 toolkit has been introduced, developing an analog of the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in Rust. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Concurrently, the uutils findutils 0.3.0 package has been released with the implementation of GNU […]
Mozilla has released an update to the Common Voice datasets, which include pronunciation samples from approximately 200,000 people. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed datasets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection has increased by 30% — from 13.9 to 18.2 […]
The release of Bottles 2022.1.28 has been announced, developing an application designed to simplify the installation, configuration, and execution of Windows applications on Linux using Wine or Proton. The program provides an interface for managing prefixes that define the Wine environment and parameters for launching applications, as well as tools for installing dependencies necessary for the correct operation of the launched programs. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under […]
Information about the vulnerability (CVE-2021-4160) in the OpenSSL cryptographic library has been revealed, caused by an error in the implementation of the summator in the BN_mod_exp function, leading to incorrect results in square operations. The issue only manifests on hardware based on MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures and could compromise algorithms based on elliptic curves, including those used by default in TLS 1.3. The problem […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 7.1 has taken place. Since the release of 7.0, 42 bug reports have been closed and 408 changes have been made. As a reminder, starting from the 2.x branch, the Wine project switched to a versioning scheme where each stable release leads to an increase in the first digit of the version number (6.0.0, 7.0.0), while updates to […]
The release of the authoritative DNS server, PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6, has been announced, which is intended for managing DNS zones. According to the project's developers, PowerDNS Authoritative Server serves approximately 30% of all domains in Europe (and 90% of DNSSEC-signed domains). The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. PowerDNS Authoritative Server provides the capability to store information about domains […]
The release of the distributed DBMS rqlite 7.0 has taken place, which uses SQLite as a storage engine and allows for the organization of a cluster of synchronized storage systems. Notable features of rqlite include the ease of installation, deployment, and maintenance of a distributed fault-tolerant storage solution, similar to etcd and Consul, but utilizing a relational model for handling data instead of key/value format. The project code is written in […]