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Release of Ventoy 1.0.62, a toolkit for booting arbitrary systems from USB drives

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The release of the Ventoy 1.0.62 toolkit has been published, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program is notable for allowing OS booting from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without the need to unpack the image or reformat the drive. For example, it is sufficient to simply copy the desired set of ISO images onto a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, and Ventoy will enable booting […]

Candidate for Wine 7.0 releases.

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The testing of the first candidate release for Wine 7.0, an open implementation of the WinAPI, has begun. The codebase has been frozen in preparation for the release, which is expected in mid-January. Compared to the release of Wine 6.23, 32 bug reports have been closed and 211 changes have been made. The most important changes include a new joystick driver implementation for WinMM (Windows Multimedia API). All Unix libraries of Wine […]

Release of Kali Linux 2021.4 distribution for security research

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The release of Kali Linux 2021.4 has been announced, designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several iso images, sized 466 MB, 3.1 GB, and 3.7 GB, have been prepared for download. […]

Release of Cambalache 0.8.0, a tool for developing GTK interfaces.

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The release of Cambalache 0.8.0 has been published, enhancing the rapid interface development tool for GTK 3 and GTK 4, which uses the MVC paradigm and emphasizes the importance of the data model. Unlike Glade, Cambalache supports multiple user interfaces within a single project. Functionally, the Cambalache 0.8.0 release is noted to be close to parity with Glade. The code is written […]

Wayland 1.20 is now available.

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A stable release of the Wayland 1.20 protocol, interprocess communication mechanism, and libraries has taken place. The 1.20 branch is backward compatible with API and ABI for 1.x releases and mainly contains bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The composite server Weston, which provides code and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, is evolving as part of a separate development cycle. […]

Catastrophic vulnerability in Apache Log4j affecting many Java projects

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A critical vulnerability has been identified in Apache Log4j, a popular logging framework for Java applications, allowing arbitrary code execution when logging specially formatted values in the format "{jndi:URL}". Attacks can be conducted on Java applications that log values obtained from external sources, such as during error message logging. It is noted that the issue affects […]

17 malicious packages have been identified in the NPM repository.

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The NPM repository has identified 17 malicious packages that were distributed using typosquatting, i.e., by assigning names similar to those of popular libraries, anticipating that users would make a typo when typing the name or would overlook the differences while selecting a module from the list. The packages discord-selfbot-v14, discord-lofy, discordsystem, and discord-vilao used a modified version of the legitimate library discord.js, which provides functions for […]

MariaDB significantly changes its release schedule.

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MariaDB, alongside its namesake nonprofit organization overseeing the development of the MariaDB database server, has announced a significant change in the schedule for building the MariaDB Community Server and its support scheme. Until now, MariaDB has released one major branch each year and provided support for it for approximately 5 years. Under the new scheme, significant releases containing functional changes […]

Microsoft-Performance-Tools for Linux has been released, and the distribution of WSL for Windows 11 has started.

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Microsoft has introduced the open-source package Microsoft-Performance-Tools for performance analysis and diagnosing performance-related issues on Linux and Android platforms. It offers a set of command-line utilities for system-wide performance analysis and profiling of individual applications. The code is written in C# using the .NET Core platform and is distributed under the MIT license. As a source for […]

Release of the open billing system ABillS 0.92

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The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.92 is now available, with components distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key innovations include: The Paysys module has been revamped with most payment modules remodeled and tests added. The Callcenter module has been redesigned. In CRM/Maps2, object highlighting on the map for bulk modifications has been added. The Extfin module has been reworked, and periodic charges for subscribers have been added. Support for selective session detailing for clients (s_detail) has been implemented. An ISG plugin has been added […]

Release of Tor Browser 11.0.2. Tor site blocking extension. Possible attacks on Tor.

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The release of the specialized Tor Browser 11.0.2 has been announced, focusing on providing anonymity, security, and privacy. When using the Tor Browser, all traffic is redirected solely through the Tor network, making it impossible to connect directly through the current system's network connection, which prevents tracking the user's real IP address (in the event of a browser hack, attackers may gain access to system network settings, so […

The Calculate Linux 22 distribution has been released.

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The release of Calculate Linux 22 is now available. This distribution, developed by the Russian-speaking community, is based on Gentoo Linux, supports a continuous update cycle, and is optimized for quick deployment in corporate environments. The new version implements the ability to update long-neglected systems, translates Calculate utilities to Python 3, and defaults to the PipeWire sound server. For […]

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