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After three years since the last release, the text recognition system Ocrad 0.28 (Optical Character Recognition) has been formed, developed under the auspices of the GNU project. Ocrad can be used both as a library for integrating OCR functions into other applications and as a standalone utility, which produces text in UTF-8 or 8-bit from the provided input image. […]
A corrective release of Firefox 96.0.2 is available, which addresses several bugs: Fixed a crash when resizing the browser window where the Facebook web application is open. Resolved an issue that caused the tab button to misalign in Linux builds when playing audio on the page. Corrected a bug that resulted in the LastPass extension displaying an empty menu in incognito mode. Source: opennet.ru
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-21658) has been identified in the standard library of the Rust language, related to a race condition in the std::fs::remove_dir_all() function. When using this function to delete temporary files in a privileged application, an attacker could delete arbitrary system files and directories, which they normally wouldn't have access to. The vulnerability is caused by improper handling of symbolic link checks before recursion.
Additional details have emerged about the SUSE Liberty Linux project, announced by SUSE this morning without technical specifics. It turns out that the project has prepared a new edition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 distribution, built using the Open Build Service platform, suitable as a replacement for the classic CentOS 8, whose support was discontinued at the end of 2021.
The Qt Company has released the first version of the Qt Digital Advertising platform to simplify the monetization of applications developed with the Qt library. The platform provides a cross-platform Qt module with a QML API for embedding advertisements into application interfaces and managing their delivery, similar to inserting ad blocks in mobile applications. The interface for simplified ad block insertion is designed as...
SUSE has introduced the SUSE Liberty Linux project, aimed at providing a unified service for supporting and managing mixed infrastructures, which include not only SUSE Linux and openSUSE but also Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS distributions. The initiative includes: Providing unified technical support, which allows users to avoid contacting the manufacturer of each distribution individually and resolve all issues through a single service.
The Sourcegraph search engine, aimed at indexing publicly available source texts, has been enhanced with the ability to search and navigate through the source texts of all packages distributed via the Fedora Linux repository, in addition to the previously available search for GitHub and GitLab projects. Over 34,500 packages with source texts from Fedora have been indexed. Flexible means for sampling are provided with […]
The release of the lightweight HTTP server lighttpd 1.4.64 has taken place. The new version features 95 changes, including previously planned changes to default values and a cleanup of outdated functionality: The default timeout for graceful restart/shutdown operations has been reduced from infinity to 8 seconds. This timeout can be configured using the "server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" option. The transition to using a build with the […]
Google has rolled out updates for Chrome 97.0.4692.99 and 96.0.4664.174 (Extended Stable), which fix 26 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-0289) that allows bypassing all security levels of the browser and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details are not yet disclosed, but it is known that the critical vulnerability is related to a use-after-free issue in the implementation of […]
The release of the AlphaPlot 1.02 program has been announced, providing a graphical interface for analyzing and visualizing scientific data. Development of the project began in 2016 as a fork of SciDAVis 1.D009, which, in turn, is a fork of QtiPlot 0.9rc-2. During development, migration from the QWT library to QCustomplot was carried out. The code is written in C++, utilizes the Qt library, and is distributed under the […]
After a year of development and 30 experimental versions, the stable release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 7.0 has been presented, which includes over 9,100 changes. Key achievements of the new version include the conversion of most Wine modules to PE format, support for themes, expansion of the stack for joysticks and input devices with the HID interface, and the implementation of the WoW64 architecture for running […]
Quietly and unnoticed, on Christmas 2022, a corrected version of the lightweight tiling window manager for X11 by the suckless team was released — DWM 6.3. In this version: a memory leak in drw has been fixed; rendering speed for long lines in drw_text has improved; the counting of the x coordinate in the button press handler has been corrected; fullscreen mode functionality (focusstack()) has been fixed; and other minor fixes.