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Firefox 89.0.1 update

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A corrective release of Firefox 89.0.1 is available, which includes several fixes: The issue with improper functioning of scroll bars on Linux platforms, which manifests when using certain GTK themes, has been resolved. Performance and stability issues in the WebRender compositing system on Linux platforms have been addressed. Regressive changes related to fonts have been fixed. By default, the setting gfx.e10s.font-list.shared is enabled, allowing for savings of about 500 […]

Release of DXVK 1.9, implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 over the Vulkan API

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A release of the DXVK 1.9 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, working through call translation into the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers with support for Vulkan API 1.1 are required, such as Mesa RADV 20.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]

The Aya library for creating eBPF handlers in Rust has been introduced

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The first release of the Aya library has been introduced, allowing the creation of eBPF handlers in the Rust language, which run inside the Linux kernel in a specialized JIT virtual machine. Unlike other tools for developing eBPF programs, Aya does not utilize libbpf and the bcc compiler, but offers its own implementation written in Rust, which uses the libc crate to directly access kernel system calls. […]

The release of the minimalist distribution Alpine Linux 3.14

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The release of Alpine Linux 3.14 has taken place, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution is characterized by increased security requirements and is built with Stack Smashing Protection (SSP). OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its own package manager apk is used for package management. Alpine is used to create official Docker container images. Bootable […]

The Linux server distribution SME Server 10.0 is now available

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The release of the SME Server 10.0, a server Linux distribution based on CentOS and designed for small and medium business server infrastructures, has been announced. A feature of this distribution is the inclusion of pre-configured standard components that are fully operational and customizable via a web interface. Among these components are a mail server with spam filtering, a web server, a print server, file […]

Google has launched a toolkit for fully homomorphic encryption

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Google has released an open set of libraries and utilities implementing a full homomorphic encryption system, which allows processing data in encrypted form that does not appear in unencrypted form at any stage of computation. The toolkit enables the creation of programs for confidential computing capable of working with data without decryption, including performing mathematical and simple string operations […]

The second candidate for the Debian 11 installer releases "Bullseye"

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The second release candidate for the installer of the next significant Debian release — 'Bullseye' has been published. Currently, there are 155 critical bugs blocking the release (a month ago there were 185, two months ago — 240, four months ago — 472, at the time of the freeze in Debian 10 — 316, Debian 9 — 275, Debian 8 — 350, Debian 7 — 650). […]

Release of the new stable branch Tor 0.4.6

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The release of Tor 0.4.6.5 has been announced, which is used for organizing the work of the anonymous Tor network. Version Tor 0.4.6.5 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.6 branch, which has been developed over the past five months. The 0.4.6 branch will be maintained in the regular maintenance cycle — updates will be discontinued after 9 months or 3 months after the release of branch 0.4.7.x. Long-term support (LTS) […]

Release of rqlite 6.0, a distributed fault-tolerant DBMS based on SQLite

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The release of the distributed database management system rqlite 6.0 has been announced, which uses SQLite as its storage engine and allows for the organization of a cluster of synchronized storage systems. Notable features of rqlite include ease of installation, deployment, and maintenance of a distributed fault-tolerant storage system, somewhat similar to etcd and Consul, but using a relational data model instead of a key/value format. The project code is written in […]

Alpha testing of PHP 8.1 has begun.

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The first alpha release of the new branch of the PHP programming language, PHP 8.1, has been announced. The release is scheduled for November 25. Key innovations, already available for testing or planned for implementation in PHP 8.1, include added support for enumerations; for example, you can now use the following constructs: enum Status { case Pending; case Active; case Archived; } class Post { public function __construct( private Status $status […]

Release of helloSystem 0.5, based on FreeBSD and reminiscent of macOS

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Simon Peter, the creator of the self-contained AppImage package format, has published a release of the helloSystem 0.5 distribution, based on FreeBSD and positioned as a system for ordinary users who may want to switch from macOS due to dissatisfaction with Apple's policies. The system is devoid of the complexities typical of modern Linux distributions, is under full user control, and allows former macOS users to feel comfortable. To learn more about […]

CuteFish — a new desktop environment.

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The developers of the CuteFishOS Linux distribution, based on the Debian package base, are developing a new desktop environment called CuteFish, which resembles macOS in style. Mentioned as a friendly project is JingOS, which has a similar interface to CuteFish but is optimized for tablets. The project's developments are written in C++ using Qt and KDE Frameworks libraries. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The installation builds of the CuteFishOS distribution are still […]

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