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Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed a fourth option for developers of Linux kernel device driver components in Rust. Support for Rust is viewed as experimental but is already agreed upon for inclusion in the linux-next branch and is sufficiently developed to begin creating abstraction layers over kernel subsystems, as well as writing drivers and […]
The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 22.01.12 has been published, built on FreeBSD 13-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD utilizes the ZFS file system. It supports both Live mode and installation on a hard drive (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). The boot images are prepared for the x86_64 architecture (2.58 GB). In the new version, […]
The release of SystemRescue 9.0.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. Xfce is used as the graphical environment. The size of the ISO image is 771 MB (amd64, i686). Changes in the new version include the translation of the system initialization script from Bash to Python, as well as the implementation of initial support for system parameter settings and autostart (autorun) when […]
The recording companies Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music have filed a lawsuit in Germany against the provider Uberspace, which offers hosting for the official site of the youtube-dl project. In response to a previously sent extrajudicial request to block youtube-dl, Uberspace refused to shut down the site and disagreed with the claims made against it. The plaintiffs insist that youtube-dl is […]
The NPM repository is experiencing another massive failure affecting projects due to issues arising from a new version of one of the popular dependencies. The source of the problems is the new release of the mini-css-extract-plugin 2.5.0 package, designed to extract CSS into separate files. The package has over 10 million weekly downloads and is used as a direct dependency by more than 7,000 projects. In […]
Google has removed the option to delete default search engines from the Chromium codebase. In the 'Manage Search Engines' section of the configurator (chrome://settings/searchEngines), elements from the list of default search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) can no longer be deleted. This change has been in effect since the release of Chromium 97 and has also affected all browsers based on it, including the latest releases of Microsoft […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-4122) has been discovered in the Cryptsetup package, which is used for encrypting disk partitions in Linux. This vulnerability allows an attacker to disable encryption in partitions formatted with LUKS2 (Linux Unified Key Setup) through metadata modification. To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must have physical access to the encrypted medium, meaning this method is primarily useful for attacking encrypted external drives, such as flash drives, […]
The Qbs build toolchain version 1.21 has been released. This is the eighth release since the Qt Company ceased development of the project, prepared by a community interested in continuing Qbs development. Qt is required for building Qbs, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the building of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define build scripts, which allows […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network have announced the release of the Arti 0.0.3 project, which is developing a Tor client written in Rust. The project is in experimental development, lacking the functionality of the main Tor client written in C, and is not yet ready to replace it fully. The release of version 0.1.0 is expected in March, which is positioned as the first beta release of the project, and a 1.0 release with API stabilization is planned for the fall, […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network configuration - NetworkManager 1.34.0 is now available. Plugins for supporting VPN, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN, and OpenSWAN are being developed within their own development cycles. Key innovations of NetworkManager 1.34 include the introduction of a new service, nm-priv-helper, designed to facilitate operations that require elevated privileges. Currently, the use of this service is limited, but there are plans to eliminate […]
In response to recent events, a corrective release of Firefox 96.0.1 has been issued, which fixes a bug in Firefox 96 related to parsing the "Content-Length" header when using HTTP/3. The issue was that the search for the string "Content-Length:" was case sensitive, which did not account for variations like "content-length:". This new version also addresses a specific issue […]
A vulnerability has been found in the XFS filesystem code (CVE-2021-4155) that allows a local unprivileged user to read data from unused blocks directly from the block device. All significant Linux kernel versions above 5.16 that contain the XFS driver are affected by this issue. The fix was included in version 5.16, as well as in updates for kernels 5.15.14, 5.10.91, 5.4.171, 4.19.225, and so on. The state of the updates addressing the issue […]