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The Xen hypervisor supports the Raspberry Pi 4 board.

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The developers of the Xen project have announced the implementation of the ability to use the Xen Hypervisor on Raspberry Pi 4 boards. The adaptation of Xen to work on previous versions of Raspberry Pi boards was hindered by the use of a non-standard interrupt controller that did not support virtualization. The Raspberry Pi 4 uses a standard GIC-400 interrupt controller, which is supported in Xen, and the developers expected that there would be no issues booting Xen […]

Vulnerabilities in PowerDNS Authoritative Server

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Updates for the authoritative DNS server PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.3.1, 4.2.3, and 4.1.14 are available, which fix four vulnerabilities, two of which could potentially lead to remote code execution by an attacker. The vulnerabilities CVE-2020-24696, CVE-2020-24697, and CVE-2020-24698 affect the code implementing the GSS-TSIG key exchange mechanism. The vulnerabilities only manifest when PowerDNS is built with GSS-TSIG support ("--enable-experimental-gss-tsig", which is not enabled by default) […]

The Fedora 33 distribution has entered beta testing.

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The beta testing of Fedora 33 has begun. This beta release marks the transition to the final testing phase, during which only critical bug fixes are allowed. The release is scheduled for the end of October. It includes Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Live builds provided in the form of spins with desktop environments such as KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt. The builds are prepared for […]

Release of the free emulator of classic quests ScummVM 2.2.0

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The release of the free cross-platform interpreter for classic quests, ScummVM 2.2.0, has been announced. This allows the execution of many classic games on platforms for which they were not originally intended, replacing executable files for games. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. It supports running over 250 quests and around 1600 interactive text games, including titles from LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution […]

Release of Display Server Mir 2.1

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The release of the Mir 2.1 display server has been introduced, which is still being developed by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]

Release of the distribution for gaming Ubuntu GamePack 20.04

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The Ubuntu GamePack 20.04 build is now available for download, including tools to run more than 85,000 games and applications, both specifically designed for the GNU/Linux platform and Windows games that can be run using PlayOnLinux, CrossOver, and Wine, as well as classic MS-DOS games and games for various consoles (Sega, Nintendo, PSP, Sony PlayStation, […]

NetBSD has switched to the CTWM window manager by default and is experimenting with Wayland

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The NetBSD project has announced a change to the default window manager in the X11 session from twm to CTWM. CTWM is a fork of twm that emerged in 1992, developed with the aim of creating a lightweight and fully customizable window manager, allowing users to modify its appearance and behavior to their liking. The twm window manager has been offered in NetBSD for the past 20 years, and […]

Release of GNU grep 3.5

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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 […]

OpenSSH 8.4 release

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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 […]

LibreOffice celebrates a decade of the project

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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 […]

Apple has opened Swift System and added Linux support

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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 […]

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