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The release of 26.01 of the library and console utility 7-Zip has occurred, which is designed to work with archives in the formats of 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, and many others. The project is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL license. Changes: The Linux version of 7-Zip can use large (2 MB) memory pages, which allows for increased compression speeds for 7z/xz/LZMA/LZMA2 […]
The Netherlands government has launched its own source code hosting platform, code.overheid.nl, where they plan to publish and collaboratively develop open source software for government institutions. The hosting service is positioned as a European alternative to GitHub and GitLab and aims to ensure digital sovereignty. The open collaborative development platform Forgejo has been used as the basis. The project was initiated by the Open Source Program Office, established under the Ministry of Internal […]
A corrective release of Firefox 150.0.1 is available, which addresses 28 vulnerabilities (19 vulnerabilities are classified under CVE-2026-7322, 4 under CVE-2026-7323, and 4 under CVE-2026-7324). All vulnerabilities are caused by memory management issues, such as buffer overflows and accessing already freed memory areas. These issues could potentially lead to code execution by an attacker when opening specially crafted pages. […]
Elementary Data has reported a compromise of its GitHub Actions workflows, during which attackers managed to publish a release of the elementary-data package 0.23.3 in the PyPI directory and the GitHub repository that included malicious code to steal confidential information from user systems. This malicious release was also included in the official Docker image of the project. Last month, the elementary-data package […]
The crypto-gost library has been published, featuring the implementation of GOST cryptographic algorithms in Java without requiring additional dependencies. Unlike the GOST algorithm implementations from the Castle Bouncy Castle library, crypto-gost offers improved performance for the "Grasshopper" encryption algorithm, resolves specific security issues, and provides simple wrappers that do not require deep knowledge of cryptography. The code is provided under its own permissive license, allowing distribution, […]
The release of Fedora Linux 44 has been announced. Products prepared for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Live images provided in the form of spins with user environments Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, Sway, and Cosmic. The builds are formed for […]
The release of the lsFusion 6.2 project is available, which develops a declarative platform for building business and web applications. The platform is suitable for developing corporate and accounting applications and can be used as an open and free alternative to the 1C platform. The code of the project is written in Java and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The standard ERP solution for small and medium businesses MyCompany, which uses lsFusion, is distributed under […]
Previously, the president of Microsoft Windows, Pavan Davuluri, stated that the company has a large-scale strategy to restore user trust in Windows 11. This trust was lost due to the relentless integration of artificial intelligence features at the expense of core principlesāperformance and reliability. The initiative to eliminate these shortcomings has been internally named Windows K2, reported Windows Central, citing […]
Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and technical leader of the Ubuntu project, summarized plans for integrating large language model-based functionality into the distribution. In the first phase, Ubuntu developers intend to leverage AI models to enhance existing distribution capabilities, after which they will add separate AI features and workflows for users interested in utilizing AI. […]
On April 20, after more than a two-year hiatus, version 0.5.3 of the fast MD4C library ('Markdown for C') was released, designed for parsing Markdown format data and converting it to HTML. The specifications supported include Markdown CommonMark 0.31 and GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). The package also includes a console utility md2html. The project is written in C without external dependencies […]
The release of the Startwine-Launcher 421 application has been published, developed for launching programs and games compiled for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes by beginnersāsets of libraries and Windows dependencies required for running Windows applications on Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]
The Linux kernel 7.1, which is expected to be released in mid-June, includes changes that add the capability of using the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) mode on 32-bit ARM processors. Previously, PREEMPT_RT support was provided for x86 and x86-64 architectures, ARM64, RISC-V, and LoongArch. Currently, from the rt-linux project's patches that are not yet incorporated into the main kernel, the following remain: Recording […]