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The release of GNU Grep 3.5, a utility for organizing data searches in text files, has been announced. The new version restores the old behavior of the "--files-without-match" (-L) option, which was changed in grep 3.2 for uniformity with the git-grep utility. In grep 3.2, searches became successful if the processed file was mentioned in the list, but this has now reverted to the behavior where […]
After four months of development, OpenSSH 8.4, an open implementation of client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, has been released. Major changes include: Security-related changes: In ssh-agent, when using FIDO keys that were not created for SSH authentication (the key identifier does not start with "ssh:"), a check is now performed to ensure that the message will be signed using […]
The LibreOffice community has celebrated ten years since the project's establishment. Ten years ago, leading developers of OpenOffice.org formed a new non-profit organization, The Document Foundation, to continue the development of the office suite as a project independent of Oracle, not requiring developers to transfer ownership rights to the code, and making decisions based on meritocratic principles. The project was created a year […]
In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides interfaces for system calls and low-level types. Now, they are releasing the library under the Apache License 2.0 and adding support for Linux! Swift System is set to become a single location for low-level system interfaces across all supported Swift platforms. Swift System is a cross-platform library, not […]
On September 27, version 0.20.3 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing the realistic night sky as if you were looking at it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. In total, there were 164 changes made between versions 0.20.2 and 0.20.3, including (major changes): Correction of nutation and, consequently, the timing of the start of seasons. […]
The WikiMedia Foundation has introduced a new version of MediaWiki — the wiki engine, a public knowledge base to which anyone can contribute by writing an article, or by adding or correcting existing material. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, which will be supported for 3 years and replaces the previous LTS branch — 1.31. MediaWiki is used by the popular online encyclopedia — Wikipedia, and […]
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 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: […]
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 […]
>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 […]
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 […]
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 […]