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A release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.16 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous internet access. Anonymous exit in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic over the Tor network, are blocked by a packet filter by default. For storing user data in a persistent mode across sessions, […]
The FreeBSD project's developed system of isolated environments, jail, has revealed two vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-25582 — a vulnerability in the implementation of the jail_attach system call, intended for attaching external processes to existing jail environments. The issue manifests during the jail_attach call using the jexec or killall commands, allowing a privileged process, isolated within the jail, to change its root directory and gain full access to […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 86 has taken place. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 78.8.0 has been formed. The Firefox 87 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for March 23. Key innovations include: In strict tracking protection mode, total Cookie Protection has been activated, where each site uses a separate isolated storage for […]
A new release of the Wine Launcher project, 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 generating patches from this. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Significant changes compared to […]
The release of the Nextcloud Hub 21 platform has been announced, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing team collaboration for enterprises and teams developing various projects. Simultaneously, the underlying cloud platform Nextcloud 21 has been published, allowing for the deployment of cloud storage that supports synchronization and data sharing, enabling viewing and editing of data from any device anywhere on the network (with […]
A new version of passwdqc has been released — a suite of tools for controlling password and passphrase complexity, including the pam_passwdqc module, the pwqcheck, pwqfilter (newly added in this version), and pwqgen programs for manual use or from scripts, as well as the libpasswdqc library. Both PAM-enabled systems (most Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, HP-UX) and non-PAM systems (the passwordcheck interface is supported […]
GitHub has blocked the repository of the RE3 project and 232 forks, including three private repositories, following a complaint from Take-Two Interactive, which owns the intellectual property related to the GTA III and GTA Vice City games. The block was enacted under a complaint for violation of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The RE3 code remains accessible […]
New bootable builds of the Void Linux distribution have been created. This is an independent project that does not utilize developments from other distributions and is being developed using a continuous version upgrade cycle (rolling updates, without distinct releases). The last builds were published in 2019. While new bootable images based on a more recent system snapshot are available, the upgrades do not introduce any functional changes […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network parameter configuration — NetworkManager 1.30.0 — is now available. Plug-ins for VPN support, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN, and OpenSWAN are being developed within their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.30 include: the implementation of the ability to compile with the standard Musl C library, support for Veth (Virtual Ethernet) devices, and the new capabilities of the ethtool utility for utilizing offload network card handlers. […]
The release of the APT 2.2 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been prepared, incorporating changes accumulated in the experimental branch 2.1. In addition to Debian and its derivatives, APT is also used in some distributions based on the RPM package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. This new release will soon be integrated into the Debian Unstable branch and […]
On February 20, 1991, Guido van Rossum released the first version of the Python programming language in the alt.sources group, which he had been working on since December 1989 as part of a project to create a scripting language for solving system administration tasks in the Amoeba operating system. This language would be higher-level than C but, unlike the Bourne shell, would provide […]
Mark Kettenis, one of the active developers of OpenBSD, reported the successful boot of OpenBSD in multi-user mode on an Apple device with an M1 processor. Currently, not all changes necessary for operation on M1 have been accepted into the main code repository of OpenBSD, as they are essentially hacks; however, the groundwork has been laid and support for this platform is planned […]