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GTK2-NG: a fork of the GTK2 library

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One of the developers of the Devuan distribution has presented the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow the continued provision of applications tied to GTK2 in Devuan, after the end of GTK2 support in the Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The developers of the GTK project have ceased […]

GTK2-NG has been introduced, a fork of the GTK2 library.

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One of the developers of the Devuan distribution has presented the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow the continued provision of applications tied to GTK2 in Devuan, after the end of GTK2 support in the Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The developers of the GTK project have ceased […]

Valve has released the GameNetworkingSockets 1.5.0 network library

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After four years of development, Valve has released the GameNetworkingSockets library 1.5.0, featuring a message transmission system over UDP that can be used to facilitate high-speed and reliable data exchange in games. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. GameNetworkingSockets implements a TCP-like protocol over UDP that ensures connection establishment, but is focused on […]

Fedora 44

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On April 28, yet another version of the Fedora Linux distribution family was quietly released – 44. The Fedora team prefers to test the distribution before the release, which is why the launch was delayed twice as part of the standard protocol (the initial date was April 14). Key innovations in Gnome 50 include: removal of X11-related code; the Anaconda installer has had its logic for creating network profiles changed; Wine NTSYNC is enabled by default […]

7-Zip 26.01

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The release of 26.01 of the library and console utility 7-Zip has occurred, which is designed to work with archives in the formats of 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, and many others. The project is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL license. Changes: The Linux version of 7-Zip can use large (2 MB) memory pages, which allows for increased compression speeds for 7z/xz/LZMA/LZMA2 […]

In the Netherlands, a collaborative code development platform for government institutions has been created based on Forgejo.

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The Netherlands government has launched its own source code hosting platform, code.overheid.nl, where they plan to publish and collaboratively develop open source software for government institutions. The hosting service is positioned as a European alternative to GitHub and GitLab and aims to ensure digital sovereignty. The open collaborative development platform Forgejo has been used as the basis. The project was initiated by the Open Source Program Office, established under the Ministry of Internal […]

Updates for Firefox 150.0.1 and Chrome 147.0.7727.137 addressing critical vulnerabilities.

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A corrective release of Firefox 150.0.1 is available, which addresses 28 vulnerabilities (19 vulnerabilities are classified under CVE-2026-7322, 4 under CVE-2026-7323, and 4 under CVE-2026-7324). All vulnerabilities are caused by memory management issues, such as buffer overflows and accessing already freed memory areas. These issues could potentially lead to code execution by an attacker when opening specially crafted pages. […]

Malicious code has been implanted in the Python package elementary-data, which has 1.1 million downloads per month.

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Elementary Data has reported a compromise of its GitHub Actions workflows, during which attackers managed to publish a release of the elementary-data package 0.23.3 in the PyPI directory and the GitHub repository that included malicious code to steal confidential information from user systems. This malicious release was also included in the official Docker image of the project. Last month, the elementary-data package […]

Implementation of GOST cryptographic algorithms in the Java language.

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The crypto-gost library has been published, featuring the implementation of GOST cryptographic algorithms in Java without requiring additional dependencies. Unlike the GOST algorithm implementations from the Castle Bouncy Castle library, crypto-gost offers improved performance for the "Grasshopper" encryption algorithm, resolves specific security issues, and provides simple wrappers that do not require deep knowledge of cryptography. The code is provided under its own permissive license, allowing distribution, […]

Release of Fedora Linux 44 distribution

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The release of Fedora Linux 44 has been announced. Products prepared for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Live images provided in the form of spins with user environments Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, Sway, and Cosmic. The builds are formed for […]

Release of the information systems development platform lsFusion 6.2.

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The release of the lsFusion 6.2 project is available, which develops a declarative platform for building business and web applications. The platform is suitable for developing corporate and accounting applications and can be used as an open and free alternative to the 1C platform. The code of the project is written in Java and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The standard ERP solution for small and medium businesses MyCompany, which uses lsFusion, is distributed under […]

Microsoft launches K2 — an emergency plan to rescue the reputation of Windows 11

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Previously, the president of Microsoft Windows, Pavan Davuluri, stated that the company has a large-scale strategy to restore user trust in Windows 11. This trust was lost due to the relentless integration of artificial intelligence features at the expense of core principles—performance and reliability. The initiative to eliminate these shortcomings has been internally named Windows K2, reported Windows Central, citing […]

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