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Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become free for organizations developing open source software.

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Red Hat has continued to expand its programs for the free use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, addressing the needs of users in traditional CentOS that arose after the transformation of the CentOS project into CentOS Stream. In addition to previously offered free builds for production deployments, which include up to 16 systems, a new option called 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for Open Source Infrastructure' has been introduced, which […]

The Debian project has launched a service for dynamically obtaining debug information.

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The Debian distribution has launched a new service called debuginfod, which allows debugging of programs included in the distribution without the need for a separate installation of related debug information packages from the debuginfo repository. The launched service enables the use of the dynamic loading of debug symbols from an external server directly during debugging, a functionality introduced in GDB 10. The process that supports the service, debuginfod […]

Issue with booting Linux on Intel NUC7PJYH surfaced after BIOS update 0058.

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Owners of the Intel NUC7PJYH mini-computer based on the ex-Atom Intel Pentium J5005 Gemini Lake CPU have encountered issues with Linux and Unix-like operating systems after updating the BIOS to version 0058. Up until the use of BIOS version 0057, there were no issues with Linux, FreeBSD, or NetBSD (though there was a separate problem with OpenBSD), but after updating the BIOS to version 0058, on this […]

GitHub documented the mechanism for blocking the entire network of forks.

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GitHub has made changes to its complaint handling rules related to violations of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The changes pertain to the blocking of forks and define the possibility of automatically blocking all forks of a repository confirmed to have violated someone else's intellectual property. Automatic blocking of all forks is provided only if more than 100 forks are recorded and the requester has conducted […]

Release of the Kali Linux 2021.1 distribution for security research

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The release of Kali Linux 2021.1 has taken place, designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the framework of the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several versions of ISO images have been prepared for download, sized at 380 MB, 3.4 GB, and 4 GB. The builds […]

Google will fund efforts to enhance the security of the Linux kernel.

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The Linux Foundation has announced that Google will fund work on maintaining security mechanisms in the Linux kernel and enhancing core security. Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor will be employed full-time for this role. Nathan is known for his work on enabling the Linux kernel to be built using the Clang compiler and integrating mechanisms during compilation […]

Release of OroPlatform 4.2.1 LTS, as well as the applications OroCommerce and OroCRM

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The release of OroPlatform 4.2.1 LTS has arrived, an open-source business application platform (BAP) developed by ORO. The platform aims to simplify and accelerate the development of custom business applications. OroPlatform’s code is written in PHP and distributed under the MIT license. It is built on a fully-functional web infrastructure from Symfony and offers great flexibility, high code quality, and features such as: An intuitive user interface on […]

Release of the global decentralized file system IPFS 0.8

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The release of the decentralized file system IPFS 0.8 (InterPlanetary File System) has been announced, forming a global versioned file storage set up as a P2P network made up of participant systems. IPFS combines ideas previously implemented in systems like Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web, resembling a single `swarm` of BitTorrent (peers participating in sharing), exchanging Git objects. IPFS features content-based addressing, and […]

Release of Tor Browser 10.0.12 and Tails 4.16 distribution

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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, […]

Vulnerabilities in FreeBSD allowing circumvention of jail environment restrictions

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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 […]

Firefox 86 Release

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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 […]

New version of Wine Launcher 1.4.46 — a tool for launching Windows games through Wine.

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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 […]

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