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The code for Luau, a variant of the Lua language with type checking, has been opened.

The source texts and the first standalone release of the Luau programming language, which continues the development of Lua and is backward compatible with Lua 5.1, have been announced. The Luau language is primarily intended for embedding scripting handlers in applications and aims to achieve high performance and low resource consumption. The project code is written in C++ and is open under the MIT license. […]

Update of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.104.1

Cisco has released new versions of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.104.1 and 0.103.4. It is worth mentioning that the project came under Cisco's management in 2013 after the acquisition of Sourcefire, which developed ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key changes in ClamAV 0.104.1: The FreshClam utility now includes a pause feature for 24 hours after receiving a response with code […]

Release nginx 1.21.4

The release of the main branch nginx 1.21.4 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (the parallel stable branch 1.20 only receives changes related to fixing critical bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes: Support for establishing HTTP/2 connections using the NPN (Next Protocol Negotiation) extension instead of ALPN has been discontinued; SSL connections are now closed when the client uses the ALPN extension if during […]

Beta testing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 has begun

Red Hat has announced the first beta version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution. Ready installation images are prepared for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (ISO images of CentOS Stream 9 can also be used for testing functionality). Repositories with packages are freely available for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. The source texts of the Red Hat rpm packages […]

Release of the Asterisk 19 communication platform and FreePBX 16 distribution.

After a year of development, a new stable branch of the open communication platform Asterisk 19 has been released, which is used for deploying software PBX, voice communication systems, VoIP gateways, organizing IVR systems (voice menus), voicemail, conference calls, and call centers. The project's source texts are available under the GPLv2 license. Asterisk 19 is categorized as a release with regular support, with updates provided over a period of two […]

The first quarterly update for openSUSE Leap 15.3-2 is now available.

The openSUSE project has released the first update of the installation images for the openSUSE Leap 15.3 QU1 (15.3 Quarterly Update 1 or 15.3-2). The proposed builds include all package updates accumulated over the four months since the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3, as well as fixes for issues in the installer. Systems installed previously and kept up to date received updates through the standard update installation system. In […]

Release of Firefox 94.

The release of the web browser Firefox 94 has occurred. In addition, an update for the long-term support branch — 91.3.0 has been formed. The Firefox 95 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for December 7. Key innovations: A new service page 'about:unloads' has been implemented, allowing users to forcibly unload the most resource-intensive tabs from memory to reduce memory consumption without closing them (content […]

Release of Fedora Linux 35 distribution

The release of Fedora Linux 35 has been announced. Products like Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, CoreOS, Fedora IoT Edition, and a set of 'spins' with Live builds of desktop environments such as KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, i3, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt are prepared for download. Builds have been created for x86_64, Power64, ARM64 (AArch64), and various devices with 32-bit ARM processors. The publication of Fedora Silverblue builds is delayed. […]

Release of PHPStan 1.0, a static code analyzer for PHP.

After six years of development, the first stable release of the static analysis tool PHPStan 1.0 has taken place, allowing developers to find errors in PHP code without executing it or using unit tests. The project code is written in PHP and is distributed under the MIT license. The analyzer provides 10 levels of checks, where each subsequent level expands on the capabilities of the previous one and offers stricter validations: […]

The MangoDB project develops the implementation of the MongoDB database protocol on top of PostgreSQL.

The first public release of the MangoDB project is available, offering a layer implementing the document-oriented database protocol MongoDB that operates on top of the PostgreSQL database. The project aims to enable migration of applications using MongoDB to PostgreSQL, providing a fully open software stack. The code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The program operates as a proxy, translating requests to MangoDB […]

Trojan Source attack to embed changes in code that are imperceptible to the developer

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published a technique for invisibly injecting malicious code into reviewed source texts. The prepared attack method (CVE-2021-42574) is presented under the name Trojan Source and is based on generating text that looks different to the compiler/interpreter and the human reviewing the code. Examples of how this method can be applied have been demonstrated for various compilers and interpreters provided for the C, C++ (gcc and clang), C#, […]

A new release of the lightweight distribution antiX 21.

The release of the lightweight Live distribution AntiX 21 has been announced, optimized for installation on outdated hardware. This release is based on the Debian 11 package base but comes without the system manager systemd and includes eudev instead of udev. For initialization, either runit or sysvinit can be used. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager. File management is supported by zzzFM […]

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