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The release of the display server Mir 2.5 has been presented, the development of which continues under Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing applications to run in environments […]
The lightweight window manager IceWM 2.8 has been released. IceWM offers full control via keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, task panels, and application menus. The window manager can be customized through a fairly simple configuration file, and theme usage is possible. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are available. Several third-party GUIs for customization, desktop implementations, and editors are being developed separately […]
An emergency update to the Apache HTTP server 2.4.50 has been formed, which fixes an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-41773) that allows access to files outside the website's root directory. This vulnerability can be used to upload arbitrary system files and source texts of web scripts that are accessible for reading by the user under which the HTTP server is running. Developers were notified of the issue back on the 17th […]
The release of the Firefox 93 web browser has taken place. In addition, updates for the long-term support branches — 78.15.0 and 91.2.0 have been formed. The Firefox 94 branch has moved to beta testing, with a release scheduled for November 2. Key innovations include the default inclusion of support for AVIF (AV1 Image Format) image formats, which utilize intra-frame compression technologies from the AV1 video encoding format. Support for […]
After a year of development, a significant release of the Python programming language 3.10 has been presented. This branch will be supported for one and a half years, after which patches addressing vulnerabilities will be formed for another three and a half years. At the same time, alpha testing of branch Python 3.11 has started (according to the new development schedule, work on the new branch begins five months before the release […]
The release of the OnlyOffice Desktop 6.4 suite is now available, designed for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The editors are formatted as desktop applications that are built with JavaScript using web technologies, but combine client-side and server-side components, designed for standalone use on the user's local system, without referencing an external service. The project's code is distributed […]
Corrective releases of the Redis DBMS 6.2.6, 6.0.16, and 5.0.14 have been published, addressing 8 vulnerabilities. All users are strongly advised to urgently update Redis to the new versions. Four vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-41099, CVE-2021-32687, CVE-2021-32628, CVE-2021-32627) may lead to buffer overflow when processing specially crafted commands and network requests, but exploitation requires specific configuration parameters (proto-max-bulk-len, set-max-intset-entries, hash-max-ziplist-*, proto-max-bulk-len, client-query-buffer-limit) […]
The Eigen project has encountered technical issues with its main repository. A few days ago, the source code of the project hosted on GitLab became unavailable. Accessing the page results in a 'No repository' error. The releases of the package hosted on the pages are also inaccessible. Discussion participants note that the prolonged unavailability of Eigen has already disrupted the build and continuous testing of many projects, as well […]
The release of the lightweight HTTP server lighttpd 1.4.60 has taken place. The new version includes 437 changes, mainly related to bug fixes and optimizations. Key innovations: Support for the Range header (RFC-7233) has been added for all non-streaming responses (previously, Range was only supported for serving static files). The implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol has been optimized, reducing memory usage and speeding up the processing of heavily sent initial […]
Simon Peter, the creator of the self-contained AppImage package format, has published the release of helloSystem 0.6, based on FreeBSD 12.2 and aimed at common users who are looking to move from macOS due to dissatisfaction with Apple's policies. The system is free of the complexities typical of modern Linux distributions, is fully under user control, and allows former macOS users to feel comfortable. For more information […]
After a year and a half of silence in development, the release of the Lumina 1.6.1 desktop environment has been announced, which has been developed following the cessation of TrueOS development within the Trident project (a desktop distribution of Void Linux). The components of the environment are written using the Qt5 library (without using QML). Lumina adheres to a classic approach to organizing the user environment. It includes a desktop, application panel, session manager, application menu, configuration system […]
The release of Lakka 3.5 has been published, allowing computers, set-top boxes, or single-board computers to be turned into a full-fledged gaming console for playing retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally aimed at creating home theaters. Lakka builds are available for i386, x86_64 platforms (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, […]