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Andrew Lunn has sent out a series of patches to begin the removal of several ISA and PCMCIA era network drivers from the Linux kernel. He details the recent maintenance burden due to artificial intelligence/fuzzing: "Until recently, these old drivers didn't require much maintenance. Now, with more newcomers using AI, testers are utilizing […]
On April 21, the latest version of the NTFS-3G FUSE driver was released. This release primarily focuses on bug fixes. What's new: fix in the build script (bashism) that incorrectly used specific Bash commands where a universal standard should have been employed; creating a new NTFS partition via the mkntfs utility is now defined with microsecond accuracy; fix for two cases related […]
The Fedora project is considering introducing a verified participant status (Fedora Verified), which would highlight developers who have contributed to the project's development and deserve certain privileges, such as participating in decision-making. The main reason for the proposed changes is the uncertainty about who can participate in community voting. Obtaining the "Fedora Verified" status will allow participation in voting […]
Firefox 150 is now available. Among the interesting new features are managing the placement of open tabs, adding some editing features to the PDF viewer, and addressing numerous vulnerabilities, including those identified using neural networks. Linux: Support for the emoji picker provided by GTK has been added (usually triggered by the Ctrl+. combination). Official builds are available as RPM packages. The context menu for links now includes the option "Open link […]
Andrew Lunn, the maintainer of 9 subsystems responsible for network drivers in the Linux kernel, has published a set of patches that remove all drivers for Ethernet adapters with ISA and PCMCIA interfaces from the kernel. It is noted that previously, maintaining old drivers did not require much effort, but with the advent of advanced AI tools and fuzz testing systems used by newcomers to identify bugs in the kernel, […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system, version 7.2.8, which addresses 9 vulnerabilities, details of which are not yet disclosed. It is only noted that 5 of the most serious issues have a severity level of 7.5 out of 10. One of the vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely over the network. In addition to the vulnerabilities, the new version introduces 17 changes: In the add-ons for host environments with […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.54 has been announced. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience against 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in every commit, along with digital signature verification of individual tags and commits by developers. The Git code […]
The release of the distributed database Apache Cloudberry 2.1.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the open code base of the Greenplum database, which was transformed into a proprietary product by Broadcom after acquiring VMware. The project is currently in the Apache incubator and will be moved to primary Apache projects once the infrastructure and supporting elements are ready. The Cloudberry database is a distributed edition of the open PostgreSQL database, optimized for […]
After six and a half years of development, the release of the NTFS-3G package 2026.2.25 has been published, which includes a free driver that operates in user space using FUSE, along with a set of ntfsprogs utilities for manipulating NTFS partitions. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The driver supports reading and writing data in NTFS partitions and can operate across a wide range of operating systems that support FUSE, […]
On April 21, 2026, Oracle announced the release of a new version of the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.2.8. Key changes include: Fixed a bug causing 'Guru Meditation' with code VERR_IEM_IPE_4. The issue occurred when the guest OS attempted to execute an incorrect hypercall instruction, generating exception #UD instead. Fixed a problem where the internal DNS server might be unavailable. Fixed an error in Ubuntu 25.10 / […]
The LibreSSL project announced the release of version 4.3.0, which is now available on OpenBSD mirrors. This is a development release for the 4.3.x branch, so developers are encouraging the community to actively test. No further API or ABI changes are planned for branch 4.3. A key new feature of this version is the support for the post-quantum key exchange method MLKEM768_X25519 in TLS, in accordance with IETF draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem. Fixed […]
The release of the Firefox 150 web browser has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches 140.10.0 and 115.35.0 have been formed. The Firefox 151 branch is set to enter beta testing in the coming hours, with a release scheduled for May 19. Key innovations in Firefox 150 (1, 2, 3): 359 vulnerabilities have been fixed (56 vulnerabilities are categorized under CVE-2026-6784, 155 under CVE-2026-6785, 110 […]