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The enthusiast community is pleased to present the new version of Pleroma — a blogging server with text markup, written in Elixir and utilizing the standardized W3C ActivityPub federation protocol. This is the second most widespread implementation of the server. Compared to the nearest competing project — Mastodon, written in Ruby and operating in the same ActivityPub network — Pleroma boasts a smaller size and […]
An initial prototype of the experimental openSUSE Jump distribution is available for testing, created as part of the initiative to merge the development and compilation processes of openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions. ISO images, sized at 3.8 GB, are offered for download, prepared for x86_64, Aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. The traditional openSUSE distribution is formed based on the core set of SUSE Linux Enterprise packages, but the packages […]
The release of Supertuxkart 1.2 has been published, a free racing game with a large number of tracks, maps, and features. The game's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. In this release: for low-level window creation and input processing, the SDL2 library has replaced the Irrlicht engine. The use of SDL2 has significantly improved gamepad support, in addition to […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-24717) has been identified in the added OpenZFS code supporting the FreeBSD OS, leading to access rights processing issues. The core of the problem is that the rights assigned to the group were processed as rights for the file owner. The issue has been addressed in the OpenZFS 2.0.0-rc1 update. The fix was implemented before the FreeBSD HEAD codebase was migrated to OpenZFS. The problem arose because […]
The release of the Electron platform 10.0.0 has been prepared, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications based on components such as Chromium, V8, and Node.js. The significant version number change is due to the update to Chromium base 85, Node.js 12.16.3, and JavaScript engine V8 8.5. In this new release: The method contents.getBackgroundThrottling() and the property contents.backgroundThrottling have been added. The main process provides […]
Following Fedora and Debian, Ubuntu developers are considering a shift to using the nftables packet filter by default. To maintain backward compatibility, the iptables-nft package is proposed, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables, but translating the received rules into nf_tables bytecode. This change is planned to be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 release this fall. This is the second […]
Users of the Mypal browser, which is a fork of Pale Moon for Windows XP created after support for this platform was discontinued with Pale Moon 27.0, have noticed the loss of the ability to install add-ons from the site 'addons.palemoon.org,' which has also blocked access for other browsers whose User Agent headers mention Windows XP. M.C. Straver (Moonchild), the creator of the Pale Moon browser, […]
A group of researchers from Mozilla, the University of Iowa, and the University of California has published the results of a study on the use of code for the hidden identification of users on websites. Hidden identification refers to the generation of identifiers based on indirect data about browser behavior, such as screen resolution, a list of supported MIME types, specific parameters in headers (HTTP/2 and HTTPS), analysis of installed plugins and fonts, and the availability of certain Web […]
A new version of the libheif library has been released, designed for encoding and decoding images in HEIF and AVIF formats. Key changes include the integration of rav1e, which provides faster encoding compared to AOM; support for AVIF with 10/12-bit depth; AVIF support in the gdk-pixbuf loader (included with the library); support for NCLX color profiles; HEIF and AVIF encoding with chroma 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 […]
The release of the email client Thunderbird 78.2.0 is now available, with the following changes: Generation of the OpenPGP key has been disabled if no default email account is configured. Drafts are now encrypted if OpenPGP is enabled. The code for searching on Twitter has been removed. Support for applying themes for the event summary dialog in the calendar scheduler has been added. Some APIs for […]
Google has released version 85 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of crashes, the ability to download the Flash module on demand, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 86 […]
The Fedora project has announced the holding of "Test Week." The event will run from August 31 to September 7, 2020. During "Test Week," everyone is invited to test the upcoming Fedora 33 release and report the results to the distribution developers. To participate, one must install the system and perform several standard operations. Then, results must be reported via a special form. According to the wiki […]