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The release of the Geary 3.38 email client has been announced, aimed at use in the GNOME environment. The project was initially founded by the Yorba Foundation, which created the popular photo manager Shotwell, but development has since been taken over by the GNOME community. The code is written in Vala and is distributed under the LGPL license. Ready builds will soon be prepared in the form of a self-contained flatpak package. […]
Rich Geldreich has transferred his compression libraries LZHAM and Crunch to the Public Domain category, meaning he has fully relinquished all property rights and granted the freedom to distribute and use them in any form without restrictions. For jurisdictions where the Public Domain category is not recognized, appropriate stipulations have been included. Previously, the projects were distributed under MIT licenses and […]
GitHub has released the first version of the cross-platform GitHub CLI toolkit, allowing users to manage their projects from the command line. The utility, named 'gh', enables users to create and view issues, create and review pull requests, conduct change reviews, and manage release formations. The toolkit also allows for the creation of scripts using the GitHub API. Builds of the toolkit are available for Linux (deb, […]
The latest version of Windows 10 for insiders (20211) has received another update to the WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Now, with console commands and no additional software, it is possible to mount partitions (or entire disks) into the WSL subsystem, and this file system will be available to all of Windows. There is now no need for third-party software to mount ext4; additionally, it has been stated that […]
A universal build has been prepared for the PinePhone smartphone, developed by the Pine64 community, which offers 13 Linux distributions. This build significantly simplifies familiarization with the existing editions of distributions and user interfaces for the PinePhone. To run any distribution, it is enough to write a single image (5GiB) to an SD card and select the desired distribution from the boot menu. A specially written bootloader, p-boot, is used for loading. Distributions […]
The developers of the Samba project have warned users that the recently discovered ZeroLogin vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) in Windows also manifests in the Samba domain controller implementation. The vulnerability is caused by shortcomings in the MS-NRPC protocol and the AES-CFB8 cryptographic algorithm, and if exploited successfully, it allows an attacker to gain administrator access in the domain controller. The essence of the vulnerability is that the MS-NRPC (Netlogon Remote Protocol) protocol allows […]
Microsoft has presented a series of patches for discussion in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list, aimed at enabling the Hyper-V hypervisor to work with a Linux-based root environment that has direct hardware access and is used to run guest systems (similar to Dom0 in Xen). Until now, Hyper-V (Microsoft Hypervisor) only supported Linux in guest environments, but the hypervisor itself was managed from […]
After six months of development, the GNOME 3.38 desktop environment has been released. Compared to the previous release, around 28,000 changes were made with the participation of 901 developers. Specialized live builds based on openSUSE and Ubuntu have been prepared for a quick assessment of GNOME 3.38 capabilities. GNOME 3.38 is also included in the preliminary builds of Fedora 33. Starting with the release of GNOME […]
The sixth edition of starter kits is now available on the Ninth Alt platform. The starter kits are suitable for experienced users looking to start working with a stable repository who prefer to define their own list of application packages and configure the system themselves. The starter kits are distributed as composite works under the GPLv2+ license. The images include a basic system, one of the desktop environments, or a set of specialized applications.
The release of Tor 0.4.4.5 toolkit has been announced, which is used to organize the functionality of the Tor anonymous network. Version 0.4.4.5 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.4 branch, which has been developed over the past five months. The 0.4.4 branch will be supported as part of the regular maintenance cycle — updates will cease nine months from now (in June 2021) or three months after the release of the 0.4.5.x branch.
The developers of the JavaScript library Moment.js have announced the cessation of development and the transition of the project to maintenance mode. This means no further expansion of functionality, freezing of the API, and limited active bug fixes, reflecting changes from the time zone database and maintaining infrastructure for existing users. Moment.js is not recommended for new projects. The Moment.js library provides functions for manipulating time and dates.
A new version of the GNOME user environment has been released, codenamed 'Orbis' (in honor of the organizers of the online version of the GUADEC conference). Changes include: the GNOME Tour app, designed to help new users acclimate to the environment, is notably written in Rust. Applications for: sound recording, screenshots, and clock settings have been visually revamped. It's now possible to directly modify XML files of virtual machines from Boxes. The main menu has removed […]