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Martin Stransky, the maintainer of the Firefox packages in Fedora and RHEL, who is working on porting Firefox for Wayland, published a report outlining the latest achievements regarding Firefox's performance in Wayland-based environments. Upcoming Firefox releases are set to address the issues observed in Wayland builds related to clipboard handling and popup management. These capabilities […]
The expiration of the root certificate from IdenTrust (DST Root CA X3), used for cross-signing the root certificate of the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority, has led to issues with the verification of Let’s Encrypt certificates in projects using outdated versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS. Problems have also affected the LibreSSL library, whose developers did not account for past experiences related to failures that occurred after the root certificate became obsolete […]
GitHub has re-blocked the repository of the RE3 project and 861 forks of its content following a new complaint from Take-Two Interactive, which owns the intellectual property related to the games GTA III and GTA Vice City. Recall that the re3 project involved reverse engineering the source code of the games GTA III and GTA Vice City, released about 20 […]
Google has released Chrome version 94.0.4606.71, which fixes four vulnerabilities, including two issues already being exploited by attackers (0-day). Details have not been disclosed yet, but it is known that the first vulnerability (CVE-2021-37975) is caused by accessing memory after it has been freed (use-after-free) in the JavaScript engine V8, and the second issue (CVE-2021-37976) leads to information leakage. In the announcement of the new […]
Valve has released version 6.3-7 of the Proton project, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of gaming applications on Linux that were created for Windows and are featured in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to run Windows-only gaming applications directly in the Steam Linux client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL database management system, version 14, has been released. Updates for the new branch will be issued over the next five years until November 2026. Key innovations include support for accessing JSON data using expressions that resemble working with arrays: SELECT (‘{ "postgres": { "release": 14 }}’::jsonb)[‘postgres’][‘release’]; SELECT * FROM test WHERE details[‘attributes’][‘size’] = ‘"medium"‘; Similar […]
The Qt Company has released the Qt 6.2 framework, continuing work on stabilizing and expanding the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.2 supports platforms including Windows 10, macOS 10.14+, Linux (Ubuntu 20.04+, CentOS 8.1+, openSUSE 15.1+), iOS 13+, Android (API 23+), webOS, INTEGRITY, and QNX. The source code for Qt components is available under LGPLv3 licenses and […]
Users of various Linux distributions that utilize the BFQ I/O scheduler faced a problem after updating the Linux kernel to version 5.14.7, leading to kernel crashes within a few hours of booting. This issue persists in kernel 5.14.8 as well. The cause is a regressive change within the BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) I/O scheduler, which was carried over from the testing branch 5.15 […]
The Firezone project is developing a VPN server to facilitate access to hosts in an internal isolated network from user devices on external networks. The project aims to achieve a high level of security and simplify the VPN deployment process. The project's code is written in Elixir and Ruby, and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The project is developed by a security automation engineer from […]
The release of the Exim 4.95 mail server has taken place, incorporating accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to a September automated survey of over a million mail servers, Exim holds a 58% share (up from 57.59% a year ago), Postfix is used on 34.92% (up from 34.70%), Sendmail on 3.52% (down from 3.75%), MailEnable on 2% (down from 2.07%), MDaemon on 0.57% (down from 0.73%), and Microsoft Exchange on 0.32% […]
Beta testing has begun for the Fedora Linux 35 distribution. The beta release marks the transition to the final testing phase, during which only critical bug fixes are allowed. The release is scheduled for October 26. This version encompasses Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Live images provided as spins with desktop environments including KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt. The builds have been created […]
Brendan Gregg, one of the developers of DTrace, who is currently developing performance analysis tools based on BPF in the Linux kernel, summarized the experience gained from addressing performance issues that Netflix encountered when migrating its Cassandra database from CentOS to Ubuntu in environments running on Amazon EC2 based on Xen. After migration, the load […]