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Release of Podman 2.0

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Developers have announced the first release of 'Podman 2', a major update to the podman project – a utility for creating, running, and managing OCI standard containers. Podman serves as an alternative to Docker and allows for container management without the need for a background system service or root privileges. For the end user, the changes will be nearly imperceptible, although the format of the json data will change in some cases. The primary distinction of the second version […]

Release of the free financial accounting system GnuCash 4.0

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The release of the free personal financial management system GnuCash 4.0 has occurred, providing tools for tracking income and expenses, managing bank accounts, handling stock, deposit, and investment information, and planning credits. GnuCash also supports accounting for small businesses and balance reconciliation (debit/credit). Data import in QIF/OFX/HBCI formats is supported, along with visual representation of information through graphs. […]

Non-profit provider FossHost, offering hosting for free projects

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As part of the FossHost project, a non-profit provider has been established to offer virtual servers free of charge for free projects. Currently, the project's infrastructure includes 7 servers deployed in the USA, Poland, the UK, and the Netherlands based on the ProxMox VE 6.2 platform. The equipment and infrastructure are provided by FossHost sponsors, and operations are carried out by enthusiasts. Existing free projects must have an active community and a website or […]

Rolling Rhino, a script for using rolling updates in Ubuntu

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Martin Wimpress, the Director of Desktop Systems at Canonical, has prepared the Rolling Rhino shell script, which allows users to create a rolling update-like system based on Ubuntu that may be useful for advanced users or developers needing to stay abreast of all changes. The script automates the process of switching installations of experimental Ubuntu releases to use the devel branches of the repositories where builds take place […]

Release of the Linux Mint 20 distribution

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The release of Linux Mint 20 has been announced, which has transitioned to the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but significantly differs in its approach to user interface organization and the selection of default applications. The developers of Linux Mint provide a desktop environment that adheres to the traditional canons of desktop organization, which is more familiar to users who are not adopting new interface building methods […]

Major Release of LanguageTool 5.0!

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LanguageTool is a free system for checking grammar, style, spelling, and punctuation. LanguageTool can be used as a desktop application, command line tool, or as an extension for LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice. It requires Java 8+ from Oracle or Amazon Corretto 8+. Extensions for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Edge have been created as part of a separate project. An additional extension […]

Release of LKRG module 0.8 for protection against kernel vulnerabilities exploitation in Linux

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The Openwall project has released version 0.8 of the LKRG (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard) kernel module, designed to detect and block attacks and integrity violations in kernel structures. For example, the module can protect against unauthorized modifications to the running kernel and attempts to change permissions of user processes (detecting the use of exploits). The module is suitable for providing protection against already known kernel exploits […]

A new PDF viewer interface has been proposed in Chrome, along with support for AVIF.

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Chrome includes a new implementation of the built-in PDF document viewer interface. The interface is notable for moving all settings to the top panel. Previously, the top panel only displayed the file name, page information, rotation, print, and save buttons, but now it has been expanded to include the contents of the sidebar, which included controls for scaling and document placement […]

Release of the minimalist set of system utilities BusyBox 1.32

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The release of BusyBox 1.32 has been announced, featuring a set of standard UNIX utilities packaged as a single executable file and optimized for minimal system resource consumption with a package size of less than 1 MB. The first release of the new 1.32 branch is positioned as unstable, with full stabilization expected in version 1.32.1, which is anticipated in about a month. The project's code is distributed under the license […]

The Vulkan driver RADV has been switched to use the ACO shader compilation backend.

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In the codebase used to produce the Mesa 20.2 release, the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD chips has switched to the default backend for shader compilation, "ACO", developed by Valve as an alternative to the LLVM shader compiler. This change will lead to improved game performance and reduced loading times. To revert to the old backend, the environment variable "RADV_DEBUG=llvm" is provided. […]

curl 7.71.0 release with the fix of two vulnerabilities

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A new version of the utility for receiving and sending data over the network — curl 7.71.0 — is now available, enabling flexible request formation with parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer, and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, HTTP/3, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP, and other network protocols. Simultaneously, an update was released for the concurrently developed library […]

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra camera will focus on photo quality rather than numbers.

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According to a new leak, the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra will feature a main camera with 50x zoom capability. This appears to be a step back from the 100x zoom boasted by the Galaxy S20 Ultra. However, sources report that this time the company has decided to focus on image quality and user experience rather than just numbers in the specifications. This news […]

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