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Firefox developers have announced an expansion of the use of DNS over HTTPS (DoH), which will be enabled by default for users in Canada (previously DoH was only applied by default for the US). The rollout of DoH for Canadian users will be implemented in several phases: on July 20, DoH will be activated for 1% of users in Canada, and if no […]
The release of EasyNAS 1.0 has been announced, designed for deploying Network-Attached Storage (NAS) in small businesses and home networks. The project has been in development since 2013, built on an openSUSE package base, and uses the Btrfs file system, allowing for storage size expansion without downtime and creating snapshots. The size of the bootable ISO image (x86_64) is 380MB. Release 1.0 is notable for its transition […]
The release of the Snoop 1.3 project has been published, which develops a forensic OSINT tool that searches for user accounts in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the presence of the desired username, i.e., it allows you to determine on which sites a user with the specified nickname exists. The project is based on research work in the field of scraping […]
After a year of development and three preliminary releases, the first stable release of the new branch of the MariaDB DBMS 10.6 has been published. This branch diverges from MySQL, maintaining backward compatibility while integrating additional storage engines and enhanced capabilities. Support for the new branch will continue for 5 years, until July 2026. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent organization MariaDB Foundation in accordance with […]
Valve has released VKD3D-Proton 2.4, a branch from the vkd3d codebase created to enhance Direct3D 12 support within the Proton game launch package. VKD3D-Proton supports Proton-specific changes, optimizations, and enhancements for better performance of Windows games based on Direct3D 12 that have not yet been integrated into the main vkd3d lineup. Notable differences also include […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network have introduced the Arti project, which aims to create an implementation of the Tor protocol in Rust. Unlike the implementation in C, which was initially designed as a SOCKS proxy and later adapted for other needs, Arti is being developed from the ground up as a modular embedded library that various applications can utilize. Work has been ongoing […]
The release of Linux Mint 20.2 has been announced, continuing the development of the branch based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but significantly differs in its approach to user interface organization and the selection of default applications. The Linux Mint developers provide a desktop environment that adheres to classic desktop organization standards, which is more familiar to users who are resistant to new […]
After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 249 has been announced. This new release provides the ability to define users/groups in JSON format, stabilizes the Journal protocol, simplifies the organization of booting alternating disk partitions, adds the ability to bind BPF programs to services, implements user ID mapping in mounted partitions, and introduces a large number of new network settings and container launching capabilities. Key […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux aimed at deploying and servicing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, capable of serving as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 1 GB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.21.1 has been formed, within which the development of new features continues (only changes related to eliminating serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the parallel stable branch 1.20). Key changes include: Nginx now always returns an error when using the CONNECT method; when both "Content-Length" and "Transfer-Encoding" headers are specified; and in the presence of spaces or control characters in the line […]
Mozilla has decided to discontinue the development of the Firefox Lite web browser, which was positioned as a lightweight version of Firefox Focus, designed to work on systems with limited resources and on low-speed connections. The project was developed by Mozilla's team in Taiwan and primarily aimed at markets in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and other developing countries. Updates were planned to be rolled out […]
Ubuntu developers have begun migrating deb packages to use the zstd algorithm, which will nearly double the speed of package installation at the cost of a slight increase in size (~6%). Notably, support for zstd was added to apt and dpkg back in 2018 with the release of Ubuntu 18.04, but it was not used for package compression. In Debian, zstd support is already […]