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Third edition of patches for the Linux kernel with Rust language support

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Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed a third option for device driver development components in the Rust language for consideration by Linux kernel developers. Rust support is considered experimental but has already been approved for inclusion in the linux-next branch. Development is funded by Google and the ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), which is the founding organization of the Let’s Encrypt project and promotes […]

Quad9 Lost Appeal in Case to Force DNS Services to Block Pirated Content

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Quad9 has released a court ruling regarding the appeal filed in response to a court order blocking pirate sites at the level of public DNS resolvers of Quad9. The court denied the appeal and did not support the request to suspend the court injunction previously issued in a case initiated by Sony Music. Quad9 representatives stated that they will not stop and will attempt to appeal the decision in court […]

LibreOffice 7.2.4 and 7.1.8 Update Addressing Vulnerability

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The Document Foundation has announced the release of corrective updates for the free office suite LibreOffice versions 7.2.4 and 7.1.8, which have updated the bundled cryptographic library NSS to version 3.73.0. This update addresses a critical vulnerability in NSS (CVE-2021-43527) that could be exploited through LibreOffice. The vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code when validating a specially crafted digital signature of a document. […]

Release of Xen hypervisors 4.16 and Intel Cloud Hypervisor 20.0.

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After eight months of development, the release of the free hypervisor Xen 4.16 has been published. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, and EPAM Systems participated in the development of the new release. Updates for the Xen 4.16 branch will continue until June 2, 2023, and vulnerability patches will be published until December 2, 2024. Key changes in Xen 4.16: In TPM Manager, […]

One of the MySQL developers criticized the project and recommended using PostgreSQL.

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Steinar H. Gunderson, one of the authors of the Snappy compression library and a participant in the development of IPv6, announced his return to Google, where he previously worked on image search services and offline maps, but will now be involved in the development of the Chrome browser. Prior to this, Steinar worked for five years at Oracle on modernizing the optimizer […]

Release of VeraCrypt 1.25.4, a fork of TrueCrypt.

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After a year of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.25.4, a fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system, has been published. The code developed by the VeraCrypt project is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, while borrowings from TrueCrypt continue to be provided under the TrueCrypt License 3.0. Ready builds are available for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt […]

The EPEL 9 repository has been formed with packages from Fedora for RHEL 9 and CentOS Stream 9.

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The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project, which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, has announced the creation of a repository variant for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9-beta and CentOS Stream 9 distributions. Binary builds are created for x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. At this stage of the repository's development, only a few additional packages supported by the Fedora community have been published […]

Blueprint has been introduced — a new language for building user interfaces for GTK

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James Westman, the developer of the GNOME Maps application, has presented a new markup language called Blueprint, designed for creating interfaces using the GTK library. The compiler code for transforming Blueprint markup into GTK ui files is written in Python and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The project was initiated due to the binding of the GTK ui files describing the interface to the XML format, […]

Release of EndeavourOS 21.4

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The release of EndeavourOS 21.4 'Atlantis', which replaces the Antergos distribution, has been announced. Antergos was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of available time from the remaining maintainers to support the project properly. The installation image size is 1.9 GB (x86_64, with a separate version being developed for ARM). EndeavourOS allows users to install Arch Linux without unnecessary complications […]

Release of the free 3D modeling software Blender 3.0

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The Blender Foundation has released Blender 3.0, a free 3D modeling software package suitable for various 3D modeling tasks, including 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpture modeling, animation creation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Pre-built versions are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Key changes in Blender 3.0 include an updated user interface […]

Release of Wine 6.23

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The experimental branch of the open implementation of the WinAPI — Wine 6.23 has been released. Since the release of version 6.22, 48 bug reports have been closed, and 410 changes have been made. Notable changes include the conversion of the CoreAudio driver and the mount point manager to the PE (Portable Executable) format. Support for exception handling has been added to WoW64, the layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows. Implementation of […]

There are problems with connecting to Tor in the Russian Federation

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Users of various Russian providers have recently reported issues connecting to the anonymous Tor network when accessing the internet through different providers and mobile operators. The main blocking occurs in Moscow when connecting through providers such as MTS, Rostelecom, Akado, Tele2, Yota, Beeline, and Megafon. Individual reports of blocking have also come from users in Saint Petersburg, Ufa […]

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