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Con Kolivas has announced his intention to cease development of his Linux kernel projects aimed at improving the responsiveness and interactivity of user tasks. This includes stopping the development of the MuQSS (Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, previously known as BFS) task scheduler and halting the adaptation of the '-ck' patch set for new kernel releases. The reason cited is […]
In response to reports of very slow rendering of the interface for managing site data on macOS (‘chrome://settings/siteData’, under ‘All cookies and site data’ in settings), Google representatives stated their plans to remove this interface and make the page ‘chrome://settings/content/all’ the main interface for assessing site data. The issue is that the current version of the ‘chrome://settings/content/all’ page only provides general […]
After a year of development, the release of package manager RPM 4.17.0 has taken place. The RPM4 project is developed by Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL (including derivative projects like CentOS, Scientific Linux, AsiaLinux, Red Flag Linux, Oracle Linux), Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Tizen, and many others. Previously, the RPM5 project was developed by an independent team of developers, which was directly […]
Roskomnadzor announced the expansion of the blacklist of VPN providers whose activities are deemed unacceptable due to offering the ability to bypass restrictions on access to content considered illegal in Russia. In addition to VyprVPN and OperaVPN, the ban will now apply to Hola VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, Nord VPN, Speedify VPN, and IPVanish VPN, which received warnings in June requiring them to connect to the government […]
Red Hat has announced the creation of a separate team to oversee activities related to maintaining the EPEL repository. The team's goal is not to replace the community but to organize its ongoing support and ensure EPEL is ready for the next significant RHEL release. The team is formed as part of the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) group, which maintains the infrastructure for developing and publishing Fedora releases […]
Mozilla has announced the completion of an independent audit of the client software for connecting to the Mozilla VPN service. The audit analyzed a standalone client application developed using the Qt library and available for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS. Mozilla VPN operates over 400 servers from the Swedish VPN provider Mullvad, located in more than 30 countries. Connection […]
The author of the Mypal web browser, which develops a fork of Pale Moon for the Windows XP platform, created after support for this OS was discontinued with the release of Pale Moon 27.0, has announced the cessation of further development of the project at the request of the Pale Moon developers. The main complaint from the Pale Moon developers was that Feodor2, the developer of Mypal, did not provide the source code with the specific release, published in the form of […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-23406) has been discovered in the NPM package pac-resolver, which has over 3 million downloads per week. This vulnerability allows the execution of custom JavaScript code within the context of an application when sending HTTP requests from Node.js projects that support automatic proxy configuration. The pac-resolver package parses PAC files that include an automatic proxy configuration script. A PAC file contains regular JavaScript code with a FindProxyForURL function that defines the proxy selection logic based on […]
The Apache Foundation has presented its report for the 2021 fiscal year (from May 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021). The total assets during the reporting period amounted to $4 million, which is $500,000 more than in the 2020 fiscal year. The annual income was $3 million, which is about $800,000 more than last year. Expenses at the same time […]
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11 (BLFS) guides have been presented, as well as editions of LFS and BLFS with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch, using only the source code of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building […]
GitHub has announced changes to the service aimed at enhancing the security of the Git protocol used during git push and git pull operations over SSH or the 'git://' scheme (access via https:// will not be affected). Following the implementation of these changes, at least OpenSSH version 7.2 (released in 2016) or PuTTY will be required to connect to GitHub via SSH […]
The release of the Armbian 21.08 Linux distribution has been announced, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including models such as Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard using Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are based on Debian 11 and Ubuntu package repositories […]
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