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Mozilla has decided not to renew its contract with the marketing company Leanplum, under which telemetry was sent in the mobile versions of Firefox for Android and iOS. By default, telemetry sending to Leanplum was enabled for approximately 10% of users in the U.S. Information about the telemetry sending was displayed in the settings and was available to disable (in the 'Data collection' menu).
The release of EndeavourOS 2021.04.17 has been published, succeeding the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of free time for the remaining maintainers to support the project adequately. The distribution offers a simple installer for setting up a basic Arch Linux environment with Xfce desktop by default and the option to install one of 9 […]
The release of OpenSSH 8.6 has been published, which is the open implementation of the client and server for working with the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new version fixes a vulnerability in the LogVerbose directive implementation that appeared in the previous release, allowing an increase in the level of debugging information logged, including the capability to filter based on patterns, functions, and files related to the executable code.
The results of the annual Debian project leader elections have been summarized. The voting involved 455 developers, constituting 44% of all eligible participants (last year’s turnout was 33%, and the year before, 37%). This year, there were two candidates for the leadership position. Jonathan Carter won, having been re-elected for a second term.
Proxmox, known for developing Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway products, has released Proxmox Backup Server 1.1, which is presented as a ready-made solution for backing up and restoring virtual environments, containers, and server configurations. The installation ISO image is available for free download. The components specific to the distribution are released under the AGPLv3 license. Updates are available through a paid option.
The general voting on possible support for the FSF board's resignation petition and the dismissal of Stallman by the Debian project has concluded. According to the automatically calculated preliminary voting results, the seventh item on the ballot won: the project will not make any public statements regarding the FSF and Stallman, and project participants are free to support any petition on this matter. In addition to the chosen position in the voting, there are other aspects to consider.
The release of the console file manager nnn 4.0 has been published, suitable for use on low-powered devices with limited resources (memory consumption about 3.5MB, and the executable file size is 100KB). In addition to tools for navigating files and directories, it includes a disk space usage analyzer, an interface for launching programs, a file selection mode for vim, and a bulk file renaming system.
Mozilla has announced its intention to gradually begin enabling the HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols in the upcoming release of Firefox 88, scheduled for April 19 (initially, the release was expected on April 20, but according to the schedule, it has been shifted by one day). Initially, support for HTTP/3 will be activated only for a small percentage of users and, if no unforeseen issues arise, it will be rolled out to everyone by the end of […]
After six months of development, the release of the LXQt 0.17 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) user environment has taken place, developed by the combined team of LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface continues to follow the ideas of classic desktop organization, bringing modern designs and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly continuation of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktop environments, incorporating the best […]
Mozilla has decided to remove the built-in implementation of the FTP protocol from Firefox. In the Firefox 88 release, scheduled for April 19, FTP support will be disabled by default (including the setting browserSettings.ftpProtocolEnabled being set to read-only), and in the Firefox 90 release, planned for June 29, the code related to FTP will be removed. When trying to open […]
The Openwall project has released version 0.9.0 of the LKRG (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard) kernel module, designed to detect and block attacks and integrity violations in kernel structures. For example, the module can protect against unauthorized changes to a running kernel and attempts to alter user process privileges (defining exploitation attempts). The module is suitable for organizing protection against exploits of already known kernel vulnerabilities […]
A group of maintainers and developers from various GNU projects, most of whom previously advocated for stepping away from Stallman's sole leadership in favor of collective management, founded the GNU Assembly community, thereby attempting to reform the management system of the GNU project. The GNU Assembly is presented as a platform for collaboration among GNU package developers, who act for user freedom and share the proposed vision […]