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Corrective updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22. Updates for the 9.6 branch will be provided until November 2021, for the 10 branch until November 2022, for the 11 branch until November 2023, for the 12 branch until November 2024, and for the 13 branch until November 2025. The new releases fix three vulnerabilities and address […]
A new stable version of the note-taking application OutWiker 3.0 has been released. One feature of the program is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and any number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Additionally, plugins can be used to add the capability of publishing to […]
Pali Rohár has changed the license for the libopenaptx project, which offers an implementation of the aptX codec (Audio Processing Technology) used in the A2DP Bluetooth profile. The package includes the libopenaptx.so library and utilities for encoding and decoding sound. The license has been changed from LGPLv2.1 to GPLv3+, which will prevent the use of the libopenaptx code in projects distributed only under the GPLv2 license without re-licensing linking with […]
The release of the NomadBSD 130R-20210508 live distribution is available, representing a FreeBSD edition adapted for use as a portable desktop bootable from a USB flash drive. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. DSBMD is used for mounting drives (supporting CD9660, FAT, HFS+, NTFS, Ext2/3/4 mounting). The size of the boot image is 2.4 GB (x86_64). In this new release, the base environment has been updated to FreeBSD 13.0. Offered […]
Fedora distribution developers have announced the decision to integrate a component for sending user statistics to the project server into the Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Fedora CoreOS editions, allowing insights into the number of users with the distribution installed. Previously, such statistics were sent in traditional Fedora builds, and now they will also be added to the atomically updated editions based on rpm-ostree. By default […]
The release of Bodhi Linux 6.0 has been introduced, which comes with the Moksha desktop environment. Moksha is developed as a fork of the Enlightenment 17 (E17) codebase, created to continue the development of Enlightenment as a lightweight desktop, due to disagreements with the project's development policy, the growth of the Enlightenment 19 (E19) environment, and the degradation of the codebase's stability. Three installation images are offered for download: standard (872 MB), with […]
The release of SystemRescue 8.03 is now available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 717 MB (amd64, i686). Changes in the new version include an updated Linux kernel 5.10.34, the inclusion of the gsmartcontrol utility for detecting problems with disks and SSDs, and the addition of the utility […]
The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical withdrew from it, has released the OTA-17 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, now renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 update is available for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 […]
The release of the Linux distribution OpenIPC 2.1 has been announced, intended for use in surveillance cameras instead of the default firmware, most of which become outdated due to a lack of updates from manufacturers. This release is positioned as experimental and, unlike the stable branch, is built not on the OpenWRT package base but using buildroot. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT license. Firmware images are prepared for IP cameras on […]
Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks, has revealed information about 12 vulnerabilities affecting various wireless devices. The identified issues are collectively named FragAttacks and encompass nearly all commonly used wireless chips and access points — of the 75 devices tested, each was susceptible to at least one of the proposed attack methods. The problems are divided […]
IBM has introduced the CodeNet initiative, aimed at providing researchers with a dataset to experiment with machine learning methods for creating translators from one programming language to another, as well as code generators and analyzers. CodeNet includes a collection of 14 million code examples that solve 4,053 typical programming problems. In total, the collection comprises about 500 million lines of code […]
A new release of the decentralized social network building platform Hubzilla 5.6 has been published. The project provides a communication server that integrates with web publishing systems, featuring a transparent identification system and access control tools in decentralized Fediverse networks. The project code is written in PHP and JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license, with support for MySQL and its forks as data storage […]