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Release of nginx 1.19.2 and njs 0.4.3

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The release of the main branch of nginx 1.19.2 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the parallel stable branch 1.18). Key changes: Keepalive connections are now starting to close before exhausting all available connections, and corresponding warnings are reflected in the log. An optimization for reading the client’s request body has been implemented when using chunked transfer. […]

Remote vulnerability in Intel server motherboards with BMC Emulex Pilot 3

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Intel has reported the elimination of 22 vulnerabilities in its server motherboards, server systems, and compute modules firmware. Three vulnerabilities have been assigned a critical level (CVE-2020-8708 — CVSS 9.6, CVE-2020-8707 — CVSS 8.3, CVE-2020-8706 — CVSS 4.7), manifesting in the firmware of the Emulex Pilot 3 BMC controller used in Intel products. These vulnerabilities allow unauthorized access without authentication […]

Release of QEMU emulator 5.1

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The release of the QEMU project 5.1 has been presented. As an emulator, QEMU enables the execution of programs built for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of a native system due to direct execution of instructions on the CPU and utilization of […]

WordPress 5.5 Release (Eckstine)

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The 5.5 version of the WordPress content management system has been released, named "Eckstine" in honor of jazz musician Billy Eckstine. The main changes involve improvements in speed, search optimization, and enhanced security: Better page loading speed using lazy loading technology (asynchronous loading that saves time, traffic, and battery life when browsing on mobile devices). A new sitemap.xml file is provided for search engines. […]

Release of GhostBSD 20.08

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The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 20.08 distribution is now available, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. It supports both Live mode and installation on a hard drive (using the custom ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). […]

Emacs 27.1

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It has happened, brothers and sisters! The long-awaited (no joke — the release process took so long that even the developers started joking about it in the emacs-devel mailing list) release of the emacs-lisp execution system, which implements a text editor, file manager, email client, package management system, and various other functions. In this release: built-in support for arbitrary-sized integers (Emacs has a great […]

Release Finnix 121, a live distribution for system administrators

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The release of the Live distribution Finnix 121, based on the Debian package base, is now available. The distribution supports only console operations but contains a good selection of utilities for administrative needs. It includes 591 packages with various utilities. The size of the ISO image is 509 MB. The new version has transitioned to using the Debian testing branch instead of snapshots of stable releases. New components have been included […]

Today is a free day at the Open Source Tech Conference 0nline

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Today, August 10, as part of the Open Source Tech Conference Online, a free day is scheduled (registration required). Schedule: 17:15 — 17:55 Vladimir Rubanov / Russia. Moscow / CTO of Software Development / Huawei R&D Russia Open-source and global evolution (in Russian) 18:00 — 18:40 Alexander Komakhin / Russia. Moscow / Senior Software Engineer / Open Mobile Platform Opensource […]

VeraCrypt 1.24-Update7 update, a fork of TrueCrypt.

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A new release of the VeraCrypt project 1.24-Update7 has been published, which develops a fork of the now-defunct TrueCrypt disk encryption system. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and addressing issues found during the audit of TrueCrypt's source code. At the same time, VeraCrypt provides a compatibility mode with […]

A vulnerability in Ghostscript allows for code execution when opening a PostScript document.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2020-15900) has been identified in Ghostscript, a suite of tools for processing, converting, and generating documents in PostScript and PDF formats. This vulnerability could lead to file modifications and execution of arbitrary commands when specially crafted PostScript documents are opened. The use of a non-standard PostScript operator rsearch allows for a uint32_t overflow during size calculation, rewriting memory areas outside the allocated […]

Firefox 81 will feature a new print preview interface.

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Nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis for the upcoming Firefox 81 release, include a new implementation of the print preview interface. The new print preview interface is notable for opening in the current tab, replacing the existing content (the old print preview interface opened a new window), functioning similarly to the reader mode. Tools for adjusting page formats and output settings are included […]

Jeffrey Knaut is the new leader of the FSF.

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On August 5, the Free Software Foundation announced the election of a new president, Jeffrey Knauth – one of the earliest participants in the GNU project (1985), co-founder of the GNU Objective-C project, and a member of the FSF board of directors since 1996. Source: linux.org.ru

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