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Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.103.

Cisco has announced a significant new release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.103.0. Remember, the project was taken over by Cisco in 2013 following the acquisition of Sourcefire, the company behind ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements: Clamd now supports reloading the signature database in a separate thread without blocking the scan. The database can be reloaded in a separate thread […]

Deepin 20

Just yesterday, a new version of the Deepin distribution, developed based on Debian and using the eponymous DE, was quietly released. This version is based on Debian 10.5. Notable features: A new design for the environment has been introduced, including new icons, smooth animations, rounded corners, and a task overview screen. A new installer design has also been implemented. Additionally, there's an option to install […]

Release of Qbs 1.17 assembly toolkit

The Qbs 1.17 build tool release has been announced. This is the fourth release after Qt Company stepped away from developing the project, prepared by a community interested in continuing Qbs development. Qt is required as a dependency for building Qbs, although Qbs itself is designed to facilitate the building of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define build scripts, allowing […]

The Sharp Aquos Zero 5G Basic smartphone features a 240 Hz display and the latest Android 11

Sharp Corporation has expanded its smartphone lineup by announcing a very interesting product — the Aquos Zero 5G Basic model: one of the first commercial devices running Android 11. The device is equipped with a 6.4-inch Full HD+ OLED display with a resolution of 2340 × 1080 pixels. The panel boasts a high refresh rate of 240 Hz. A fingerprint scanner is integrated directly into the screen area. […]

The beta testing of FreeBSD 12.2 has started

The first beta release of FreeBSD 12.2 has been prepared. The release FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1 is available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, and armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments have been prepared. The FreeBSD 12.2 release is scheduled for October 27. The release notes with the list of changes are currently limited to an empty template, but […]

GameMode 1.6 is available, a game performance optimizer for Linux.

Feral Interactive has released version 1.6 of the GameMode optimizer, implemented as a background process that dynamically adjusts various Linux system settings for maximum performance of gaming applications. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. For games, a special library, libgamemode, is recommended, which allows requesting certain optimizations while the game is running, without […]

Release of Manjaro Linux 20.1 distribution

The release of the Manjaro Linux 20.1 distribution has been announced, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers. Manjaro is available in live builds with graphical environments KDE (2.9 GB), GNOME (2.6 GB), and Xfce (2.6 GB). With […]

Release of the WebKitGTK 2.30.0 browser engine and the Epiphany 3.38 web browser.

The release of the new stable branch WebKitGTK 2.30.0 has been announced, the port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform. WebKitGTK allows you to leverage all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented programming interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to creating fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include Midori […]

Release of Wine 5.17

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.17 has been announced. Since the release of version 5.16, 17 bug reports have been closed, and 267 changes have been made. The most important changes: Initial implementation of the NDIS network driver has been proposed. The ADVAPI32 library has been converted to the PE format. Work on restructuring console support has continued. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: […]

Release of Deepin 20 distribution, which develops its own graphical environment

The release of the Deepin 20 distribution has been announced, based on the Debian package base, while developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 30 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, and the installer and program center Deepin Software Center. The project is founded by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. The distribution […]

Mozilla has introduced new features for promoting add-ons for Firefox.

Mozilla has introduced new features for promoting add-ons in the AMO directory (addons.mozilla.org). In a pilot mode from the end of September to the end of November, the program for manual review and assessment of add-ons will be expanded. Since Mozilla does not have the resources to manually review all add-ons, they have launched the Promoted Add-ons program, which allows for expedited review on a paid basis. During […]

Microsoft has added disk mounting capabilities to WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Microsoft has announced an extension of the functionality of the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which enables the execution of Linux executable files on Windows. Starting with the Windows Insiders build 20211, WSL2 has added support for mounting file systems from physical disks. A ‘wsl --mount’ command has been proposed, which can also be used to mount a partition with the FS into WSL, not […]

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