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ClamAV Free Antivirus Package Update 0.103.3

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The release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.103.3 has been formed, featuring the following changes: The file mirrors.dat has been renamed to freshclam.dat as ClamAV has transitioned to using a content delivery network (CDN) instead of a mirror network, and the specified dat file no longer contains information about mirrors. freshclam.dat retains the UUID used in ClamAV's User-Agent. The need for this renaming arises from the fact that in scripts […]

Android-x86 8.1-r6 Build Available

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The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is being advanced by an independent community to develop the Android platform port for the x86 architecture, have released the sixth stable build based on Android 8.1. This build includes fixes and enhancements that improve Android's performance on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 8.1-r6 are available for both x86 32-bit (640 MB) and x86_64 (847 […]

A bug in BIND 9.16.17 leads to incorrect handling of the W character in DNS queries.

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Corrective updates have been released for the stable branch of the DNS server BIND 9.16.18 and the experimental branch 9.17.15 under development, which addresses a serious bug that appeared in the releases of BIND 9.16.17 and 9.17.14 published last week (the day after these releases, developers warned about the issue and recommended not to install versions 9.16.17 and 9.17.14). Versions 9.16.17 and 9.17.14 […]

Vulnerabilities in the eBPF subsystem allow bypassing protection against Spectre-class attacks.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2021-33624) has been found in the Linux kernel that allows the eBPF subsystem to bypass protections against Spectre-class vulnerabilities, enabling the determination of memory contents by creating conditions for speculative execution of certain operations. A certain sequence of commands in privileged code is required for a Spectre attack, leading to the speculative execution of instructions. By manipulating the BPF programs passed for execution, it is possible […]

Release of the plotly.py 5.0 visualization library.

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A new release of the Python library plotly.py 5.0 is available, providing tools for data visualization and various types of statistics. The rendering uses the plotly.js library, which supports over 30 types of 2D and 3D graphs, charts, and maps (the output can be saved as an image or HTML file for interactive display in a browser). The plotly.py code is distributed under the MIT license. In this new release, support for Python […]

Update of Wine Launcher 1.4.55.

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The release of Wine Launcher version 1.4.55, which develops a Sandbox environment for running Windows games, is now available. Key features include: isolation from the system, a separate Wine and Prefix for each game, compression into SquashFS images for space savings, a modern launcher style, automatic tracking of changes in the Prefix directory, and generation of patches from this. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Significant changes compared to […]

Update of Tor Browser 10.0.18

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A new version of the Tor Browser 10.0.18, focused on ensuring anonymity, security, and privacy, is available. The browser concentrates on providing anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic routed only through the Tor network. Direct connection through the current system's regular network connection is impossible, preventing tracking of the user's real IP address (in the case of browser hacking, attackers may gain access to system […]

Leak of password hashes from the WHOIS service of the internet registrar APNIC

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APNIC, the registry responsible for allocating IP addresses in the Asia-Pacific region, reported an incident resulting in the SQL dump of the Whois service being exposed, containing confidential data and password hashes. Notably, this is not the first leak of personal data at APNIC — in 2017, the Whois database was already publicly available due to staff oversight. In […]

The release of the Rocky Linux 8.4 distribution, which replaces CentOS

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The release of Rocky Linux 8.4 has taken place, aimed at creating a new free build of RHEL that can take the place of the classic CentOS, after Red Hat decided to end support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, rather than in 2029 as originally planned. This is the first stable release of the project, recognized as ready for production deployments. Rocky builds […]

W3C has standardized the Web Audio API

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The W3C consortium announced that the Web Audio API has been granted recommended standard status. The Web Audio specification describes a high-level API that allows for the development of web applications in JavaScript for sound synthesis and processing, which operate in web browsers without the need for additional plugins. Use cases for Web Audio include adding sound effects to pages and developing web applications for processing, recording, playback […]

NixOS provides support for reproducible builds for ISO images.

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Developers of the NixOS distribution have reported the implementation of integrity verification support for the minimal iso image (iso_minimal.x86_64-linux) using reproducible build mechanisms. Previously, reproducible builds were available at the individual package level, and are now extended to the entire iso image. Any user can create an iso image that is completely identical to the provided downloadable iso image and verify that it is built from the provided source texts and […]

The Microsoft Linux repository was down for almost a day

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The repository packages.microsoft.com, through which packages with Microsoft products are distributed for various Linux distributions, was non-operational for over 22 hours. This included unavailability for the installation of Linux versions of .NET Core, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as various Azure devops handlers. Details of the incident have not been disclosed, only that the issues arose due to regressive […]

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