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End of LTS support for Debian 8.0 "jessie"

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The support period for the LTS branch of the Debian 8 Jessie distribution, released in 2015, has come to an end. Updates for the LTS branch were provided by a separate group of developers known as the LTS Team, formed by enthusiasts and representatives of companies interested in the long-term provision of updates for Debian. The initiative group has already begun forming a new LTS branch based on Debian 9 'Stretch', which will reach end of standard support on 18 […]

Update Firefox 78.0.2

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A corrective release of Firefox 78.0.2 has been published, addressing a vulnerability and fixing several bugs. The vulnerability allows bypassing restrictions set through the X-Frame-Options header and injecting content from another site using object or embed tags. Among the fixes, issues related to accessibility features have been resolved, and regressive changes preventing links from opening in external applications have been addressed (in […]

Release of the P2P platform GNUnet 0.13. Promotion of GNS as an internet standard

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The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee, which focuses on the development of Internet protocols and architecture, has initiated the standardization process for the GNS (GNU Name System), developed by the GNUnet project as a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant alternative to DNS. Currently, the first draft version of the standard has been published, and upon stabilization, an RFC will be formed, which will have the status of a 'Proposed Standard'. GNS can […]

Sendmail 8.16.1 has been released.

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On July 5th, the release of Sendmail 8.16.1 was announced in the comp.mail.sendmail group. The program source can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/. Key changes include: support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 added, support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 removed; initial support for DANE (RFC 7672) added; support for null MX (RFC 7505) added; improved informativeness of syslog messages in several cases; several fixes in LIBMILTER; cidrexpand from […]

The developers of LibreOffice are considering alternatives to the use of the label "Personal Edition".

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The head of the governing board of The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of the LibreOffice open-source suite, announced that the board has analyzed the community's response to the intention of branding the office suite as 'Personal Edition'. A revised version of the marketing plan, which will take into account the suggestions and wishes of community representatives, is expected to be published next Monday. The final decision on adding the label will be made by […]

Google has established an organization to manage the trademarks of open projects.

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Google has established a new nonprofit organization, 'Open Usage Commons', aimed at protecting the identity of open projects and assisting with trademark management (project name and logo), formulating usage guidelines for trademarks, and ensuring their compliance. The organization's goal is to expand the philosophy and definition of Open Source concerning trademarks. The developers are the owners of the related intellectual property concerning the code, […]

Minetest 5.3.0 has been released

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Minetest is an open-source engine for creating voxel games using Lua. A substantial number of games, mods, and texture packs have already been developed for it. Version 5.3.0 has brought many updates, including: Reinstated support for Android Smoother camera movement More precise controls The standard keys for changing views and enabling the minimap have been changed to C and V […]

nginx 1.19.1

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Nginx 1.19.1 has been released, marking the latest iteration in the current mainline branch of the nginx web server. The mainline branch is actively developed, while only bug fixes are applied to the current stable branch (1.18). Changes include: the directives lingering_close, lingering_time, and lingering_timeout now function with HTTP/2. Additionally, any excess data sent by the backend is now always discarded. Furthermore, when receiving too short a […]

MaXX Interactive Desktop v2.1

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A new version of MaXX Interactive Desktop has been released – the true successor to the great IRIX Interactive Desktop, which can only be found in SGI systems. This is not just a theme or skin over an existing window manager. This project aims to revive the IRIX Interactive Desktop and continue its evolution as if SGI still existed…. This release is considered a 'base' release. By base release […]

Vulnerabilities in libc and the IPv6 stack of FreeBSD

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Several vulnerabilities have been addressed in FreeBSD that allow a local user to escalate their privileges in the system: CVE-2020-7458 — a vulnerability in the posix_spawnp mechanism provided in libc for process creation, exploited by specifying a value that is too large in the PATH environment variable. This vulnerability may lead to data being written beyond the memory area allocated for the stack and allows overwriting the contents of subsequent locations […]

Google and Canonical have implemented Flutter for creating desktop applications for Linux

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Google and Canonical have launched a joint initiative to support the development of graphical applications based on the Flutter framework for desktop Linux systems. The Flutter user interface framework is written in Dart (the runtime engine for executing applications is written in C++) and allows for the creation of universal applications that work across different platforms, being considered an alternative to React Native. Despite the availability of Flutter […]

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