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A corrective update has been released for the previous stable branch of Debian 9, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes issues in the installer. The release includes 75 updates addressing stability issues and 73 updates fixing vulnerabilities. This is the final release of the Debian 9 branch, and further preparation of package updates will be handed over to the LTS Team. Standard support for Debian 9 ended on the 18th […]
The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 3.18 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. CMake is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, functionality extension through modules, and minimal dependencies (no binding to […]
The company 'Doctor Web' announced the release of the updated antivirus solution D.Web 12.0.0 to protect computers running macOS version 10.7 and above from common types of threats. Dr.Web for macOS detects and automatically blocks suspicious web pages and files, thus preventing the download of malware onto the computer, while also warning the user about potentially dangerous sites. In addition to […]
The company Cloudflare, which provides a content delivery network for 27 million internet resources and handles traffic for 13% of the top 1000 sites, has revealed details of an incident that disrupted the operation of many segments of the Cloudflare network for 27 minutes, including those responsible for delivering traffic to London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Amsterdam, Paris, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. The problem was caused by […]
An experimental release of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.13 has occurred. Since the release of version 5.12, 22 bug reports have been closed and 407 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The implementation of the IniFileMapping call to map ini format configuration files (win9x) to the corresponding registry parameters (NT). Support for mapping has been added to the functions GetPrivateProfileStringW(), WritePrivateProfileStringW(), GetPrivateProfileSectionNames(), and WritePrivateProfileSection(). […]
The Hardkernel team has released the ODROID-N2 Plus development board, which can be used for various projects in the Internet of Things, robotics, and more. At the core of the solution is the Amlogic S922X Rev.C processor. Its six computing cores feature a big.LITTLE configuration: four Cortex-A73 cores operate at a clock speed of up to 2.4 GHz, while two Cortex-A53 cores run at a frequency of up to […]
The release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102.4 has been announced, which addresses three vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-3350 — allows an unprivileged local attacker to delete or move arbitrary files in the system, for instance, they can delete /etc/passwd without having the necessary permissions. The vulnerability is caused by a race condition that occurs during the scanning of malicious files, enabling a user with shell access in the system to change the target directory […]
Microsoft has released the source code of the ProcMon (Process Monitor) utility edition for Linux under the MIT license. Originally, the utility was included in the Sysinternals suite for Windows and has now been adapted for Linux. Tracing in Linux is organized using the BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) toolkit, which allows the creation of efficient BPF programs for tracing and manipulating kernel structures. Installable packages have been prepared for […]
Eleven months after the release of the last significant version, the Thunderbird 78 email client developed by the community and based on Mozilla technology has been released. This new version is categorized as a long-term support release, with updates scheduled for the next year. Thunderbird 78 is based on the ESR codebase of Firefox 78. The release is available only for direct download; automatic […]
GitHub has announced the realization of a project to create an archive of open-source texts located in the Arctic World Archive, capable of surviving a global catastrophe. 186 piqlFilm film storage units, which contain photographic information and can preserve data for over 1000 years (according to other sources, the lifespan is 500 years), have been successfully placed in an underground storage facility on the island of […]
The release of the JPype 1.0 layer is now available, allowing full access for Python applications to Java class libraries. With JPype, Java-specific libraries can be used from Python, creating hybrid applications that combine Java and Python code. Unlike Jython, integration with Java is achieved not by creating a Python variant for the JVM, but through interaction at […]
Developers from the Ukrainian branch of GlobalLogic are advancing the GloDroid project with a mobile platform edition of Android 10 from the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository for platforms based on Allwinner processors, supported by the SUNXI project, as well as for Broadcom platforms. Installation is supported on the Pinephone smartphone, Pinetab tablet, and Orange Pi Plus 2, Orange Pi Prime, Orange Pi PC/PC 2 boards […]