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Firefox 80 has implemented a setting for redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS.

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Firefox developers have continued to advance the 'HTTPS Only' mode, in which all unencrypted requests are automatically redirected to their secure page versions (replacing 'http://' with 'https://'). In the nightly builds from which Firefox 80 will be released on August 25, a section for controlling the activation of these settings has been added to the browser preferences interface (about:preferences) under the 'Privacy & Security' section […]

Release of the Slackel 7.3 distribution.

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After a year of development, the Slackel 7.3 distribution has been released, built on the foundations of the Slackware and Salix projects and fully compatible with the repositories they offer. A key feature of Slackel is the use of the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the boot image, which can operate in Live mode, is 1.9 GB (32 and 64 bit). The distribution can […]

Digicert is revoking 50,000 TLS certificates with extended validation.

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The certificate authority Digicert plans to revoke approximately 50,000 EV (Extended Validation) TLS certificates on July 11. The certificates subject to revocation were issued through accredited certificate authorities that do not appear in audit reports. EV certificates confirm the claimed identification parameters and require the certificate authority to verify domain ownership documents and the physical presence of the resource owner. The rules governing the activities of certificate authorities prescribe […]

Update for Tor 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, and 0.4.3.6 addressing DoS vulnerability.

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Corrective releases of the Tor tooling (0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, and 4.4.2-alpha) have been released, which is used to operate the anonymous Tor network. The new versions fix a vulnerability (CVE-2020-15572) caused by accessing memory outside the bounds of the allocated buffer. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to initiate a crash of the tor process. The issue only manifests when built with the NSS library (by default, Tor is built with OpenSSL, and […]

A proposal to discuss the addition of development tools for the Rust programming language in the Linux kernel

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Nick Desaulniers, who works at Google on supporting Linux kernel builds using the Clang compiler and also helps fix bugs in the Rust compiler, proposed to hold a session at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2020 to discuss the possibility of developing kernel components in Rust. Nick is organizing a micro-conference dedicated to LLVM and believes it would be beneficial […

Release of Minetest 5.3.0, an open clone of the game MineCraft

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The release of Minetest 5.3.0 has been presented, an open cross-platform version of the game MineCraft that allows groups of players to collaboratively create various structures from standard blocks, forming a virtual world (sandbox genre). The game is written in C++ using the irrlicht 3D engine. Lua is used for creating extensions. Minetest code is distributed under the LGPL license, and game resources are under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Ready […

Microsoft will not support PHP 8.0 for Windows

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Dale Hirt, PHP project manager at Microsoft, warned developers that the company will not support the PHP 8.0 branch for Windows. Support for the PHP 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 branches included build support, fixes for specific errors, and development for the Windows platform. For the 8.0 branch, this work will have to be carried out by community members interested in […

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 […]

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