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On April 28, the release of version 0.14 of the cross-platform code editor NotepadNext took place, referred to by the author as the 'cross-platform rewrite of Notepad++'. The project is written in C++ (C++20 standard) using the Qt 6 framework (minimum version – 6.5) and is distributed under the GNU GPL 3.0 license. Changes include replacing QMake with CMake, and using CPM.cmake instead of Git submodules; the definition of the sizes of the 'Find' dialog has been changed […]
A corrective release of the Exim mail server 4.99.2 has been published, fixing 4 vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-40685 — a buffer overflow on read and write when processing JSON data in the email header. CVE-2026-40686 — reading data from outside the buffer boundaries when processing specially formatted UTF-8 characters at the end of headers. The vulnerability may lead to data leaks from memory in returned messages […]
Microsoft has released under the MIT license the source code of the operating systems 86-DOS 1.00 and PC-DOS 1.00, as well as the runtime libraries of the Microsoft BASIC-86 compiler, the SCP assembler, and the CHKDSK and EDLIN utilities. PC-DOS 1.00 is notable for being the first release of DOS for IBM PC computers. The code was restored as part of a project to reconstruct the code of the early DOS versions for the 8086 CPU […]
The release of the Sculpt project 26.04 has been announced, developing an operating system based on Genode OS Framework technologies, which can be used by ordinary users for everyday tasks. The project's source texts are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A system image is available for download, sized at 33 MB, which can be used on PCs, the PinePhone smartphone, and the MNT Reform laptop. Operation is supported on systems with […]
On April 5, quietly and unnoticed, the release of version 26.1 of the popular free cross-platform planetarium Stellarium took place – the first this year. The project is written in C++ using the Qt framework (versions 5 and 6 are supported) and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. The main changes in this version include the addition of two new Chinese sky cultures: the Manchus and the Xianglin Star Chart; […]
Notepad++ is now available as a native application for macOS. It is a free text editor that supports multiple programming languages and is suitable for processing textual data in general. No additional tools such as Wine, Porting Kit, or emulation software are required to use it. This is a fully native application developed in compliance with the GNU license. Thanks to its powerful text editing tool […]
Researchers from Xint have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel that allows an unprivileged user to gain root access to the system. The issue has been assigned the code name Copy Fail. A prototype exploit is available. The exploitation of this vulnerability has been demonstrated in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Amazon Linux 2023, RHEL 10.1, and SUSE 16, though it is noted that kernel packages from other distributions, including Debian, Arch, Fedora, […]
On April 29, after more than a month of development, 521 commits, and the correction of 282 bugs, the release of version 8.20.0 (the 274th) of the cross-platform console utility and library curl, written in C and distributed under the curl license, took place. Key Changes Security As mentioned earlier ('High quality chaos'), there has been a significant increase in reports of security issues lately. This time […]
Details have been published regarding the vulnerability 'Copy Fail' CVE-2026-31431 (Base Score: 7.8 HIGH), which allows any local user to gain root privileges locally without special tools or conditions. Most systems released since 2017 are affected. The vulnerability is linked to an error in authencesn—a cryptographic template in the Linux kernel—and it is exploited through the AF_ALG interface. An exploit with code is available on […]
The Linux Containers community has released the toolkit for managing isolated containers LXC 7.0, providing a runtime suitable for running containers with complete system environments, akin to virtual machines, as well as executing unprivileged containers for individual applications (OCI). LXC belongs to low-level tools that operate at the level of individual containers. For centralized management of containers deployed in a cluster of […]
One of the developers of the Devuan distribution has presented the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow the continued provision of applications tied to GTK2 in Devuan, after the end of GTK2 support in the Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The developers of the GTK project have ceased […]
One of the developers of the Devuan distribution has presented the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow the continued provision of applications tied to GTK2 in Devuan, after the end of GTK2 support in the Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The developers of the GTK project have ceased […]