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A joke about women's age led to a change in the Ruby code of conduct.

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Changes have been made to the Ruby project code of conduct, which defines the principles of friendly and respectful communication within the developer community, aimed at clarifying language that allows for abuse: a clause defining tolerance for opposing opinions has been removed. The phrase prescribing a welcoming attitude towards newcomers, young participants, their teachers, and supporters of individuals who cannot control their emotions (‘fire breathing wizards’) has been expanded to all users. […]

Google has allocated one million dollars to enhance the security of open-source software.

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Google has introduced the Secure Open Source (SOS) initiative, which will organize bounty payments for work related to enhancing the security of critical open-source software. A million dollars has been allocated for the initial payments, but if the initiative is deemed successful, investment in the project will continue. The following bounties are provided: $10,000 and above for contributions that are complex and significant […]

Plan to enhance Wayland support in Firefox

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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 […]

Crashes in OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Electron due to the expiration of the IdenTrust root certificate

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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Encrypt Certificate Authority, has led to issues with the verification of Let’s Encrypt certificates in projects using outdated versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS.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 blocked the RE3 project repository again.

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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 […]

Chrome update 94.0.4606.71 with the resolution of 0-day vulnerabilities

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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 Proton 6.3-7, a package for running Windows games on Linux.

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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 […]

Release of PostgreSQL DBMS 14

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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 […]

Release of the Qt 6.2 Framework

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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 […]

A problem has been identified in the Linux kernel 5.14.7 that causes crashes on systems using the BFQ scheduler.

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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 […]

Firezone — a solution for creating VPN servers based on WireGuard

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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 […]

New version of the Exim mail server 4.95

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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% […]

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