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In the nightly builds of Firefox, the performance of JIT compilation has significantly increased.

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The nightly builds of Firefox include an updated JIT compiler, developed under the codename WarpBuilder. To activate the new JIT, the option "javascript.options.warp" is suggested in about:config. It is noted that WarpBuilder is just the first step towards incorporating new optimizations into the browser, planned for the next year. The new JIT improves the performance of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine by reducing internal information […]

ZenMake 0.10.0

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ZenMake is another build system for C/C++ and several other programming languages with declarative configuration files. ZenMake is written in Python using Waf as a framework. The main goal of the project is to be as user-friendly as possible while remaining sufficiently flexible. Why another build system? Details (in English): https://zenmake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/why.html Main repository: https://gitlab.com/pustotnik/zenmake Documentation: […]

Debian 10.6 update

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The sixth corrective update for Debian 10 has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 53 updates addressing stability problems and 32 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Changes in Debian 10.6 highlight updates to recent stable versions of the packages cargo, rustc, gssdp, gupnp, and postgresql-11. For download and installation […]

Patches for supporting IBM Z (S/390) mainframes have been accepted into Buildroot.

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>In Buildroot, after a brief discussion, a series of patches proposed by IBM employee Alexander Egorenkov was accepted, adding support for IBM Z. Support is provided for several recent generations of devices: z13 (2015), z14 (2017), and z15 (2019). When asked about the use of Buildroot within IBM, it was stated that the image is used to build test environments, particularly syzkaller. Buildroot is a system […]

Taiwins 0.2

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The second release of the composer for Wayland took place modestly and unobtrusively. Project features: support for Lua extensions, built-in window manager (with optional tiling support), hotkeys similar to Emacs, support for dbus, GPL license. Release highlights: porting from libweston (with plans to eventually phase out wlroots), integrated Wayland shell, improvements in render debugging, part of the features mentioned above. Website […]

Wine 5.18 Release

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI—Wine 5.18—has taken place. Since the release of version 5.17, 42 bug reports have been closed and 266 changes have been made. The most important changes include: wined3d now compiles shaders through the Vulkan API using the vkd3d-shader library, which is included in the vkd3d package. The USER32 library has been transformed into PE format. The console implementation has been freed from dependencies […]

Postgresql 13

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On September 24, the development team announced the release of PostgreSQL version 13. In this new release, the main focus, among other things, was on improving performance, speeding up internal maintenance services, and simplifying database monitoring, as well as providing more reliable access control to the system. Work continued on optimizing table indexing concerning the handling of duplicates among indexed data in binary […]

Calibre 5.0

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The release of the cataloger, viewer, and editor of electronic books Calible 5.0 has taken place. Key changes in the new version include a new ability to highlight, color, and add annotations to text fragments, as well as a full transition to Python 3. In the new release, you can highlight the text that interests you and apply color highlighting, as well as formatting styles (underline, strikethrough…) and […]

Leak of source texts from Windows XP SP1, Windows Server 2003, and other old OS

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On the forum 4chan and the file-sharing service Mega.nz, an unknown person published an archive (torrent, 43 GB) that includes the complete source texts of the Windows XP SP1, Windows Server 2003, MS DOS 3.30, MS DOS 6.0, Windows 2000, Windows CE 3, Windows CE 4, Windows CE 5, Windows Embedded 7, Windows Embedded CE, Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 4 operating systems […]

Release of the Global Decentralized File System IPFS 0.7

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The release of the decentralized file system IPFS 0.7 (InterPlanetary File System) has been presented, forming a global version-controlled file storage deployed in the form of a P2P network made up of participant systems. IPFS combines ideas previously realized in systems such as Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web, and resembles a single 'swarm' of BitTorrent (peers participating in the distribution), exchanging Git objects. IPFS is characterized by content addressing, and […]

Vifm 0.11

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Vifm is a console file manager with Vim-like modal control and some concepts borrowed from the email client mutt. The new version updates the application's state file format, enabling a range of new features. Other improvements include new interface settings and a series of optimizations. Key changes: the ability to save sets of open tabs between restarts; session saving/loading; a new vifminfo format (previous data [...])

CODE 6.4 is available, a distribution for deploying LibreOffice Online

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Collabora has released version 6.4 of the CODE platform (Collabora Online Development Edition), offering a specialized distribution for the quick deployment of LibreOffice Online and facilitating collaborative remote work with the office suite via the web to achieve functionality similar to Google Docs and Office 365. The distribution is presented as a pre-configured container for Docker and is also available as packages for […]

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