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After two years of development, a new version of the Lua programming language — 5.4 — was quietly released on June 29. Lua is a simple, interpreted programming language that is easy to embed in applications. Because of these qualities, Lua is widely used as an extension language or for program configuration (particularly in computer games). Lua is distributed under the MIT license. The previous version (5.3.5) was released […]
An emergency patch release of Firefox 78.0.1 has been published, which addresses an issue that arose in Firefox 78 causing installed search engines to disappear. After updating the browser, the quick access list to search engines was empty for some users, disrupting the auto-completion feature in the address bar and preventing queries from being sent through the search field on the homepage. The cause of the failure was related to enabling […]
Developers of Fedora are discussing the discontinuation of booting using the classic BIOS and leaving the option for installation only on systems that support UEFI. It is noted that systems based on the Intel platform have been shipped with UEFI since 2005, and by 2020, Intel planned to cease support for BIOS in client systems and data center platforms. The discussion on phasing out BIOS support […]
A release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.8 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been created, based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is ensured by the Tor network. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in persistent mode between sessions, […]
The release of the dynamic tracing and analysis platform Frida 12.10 has been introduced, which can be viewed as an equivalent to Greasemonkey for native programs, allowing control over a program’s operation during execution, just as Greasemonkey allows control over the processing of web pages. Program tracing is supported on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and QNX platforms. The source code of all project components is distributed under a free […]
Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of the Redis database, announced that he will no longer be maintaining the project and will dedicate his time to something else. According to Salvatore, in recent years his work has been focused on reviewing external proposals for improving and changing the code, which is not what he wanted to be doing, as he prefers writing […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 78 has occurred, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.10 for the Android platform. The release of Firefox 78 is classified under long-term support (ESR) branches, for which updates are released over the course of a year. Additionally, an update for the previous long-term support branch 68.10.0 has been prepared (with two more updates, 68.11 and 68.12, expected in the future). In the near […]
A new version of the QtProtobuf library has been released. QtProtobuf is a free library released under the MIT license that makes it easy to use Google Protocol Buffers and gRPC in your Qt project. Key changes include: support for nested types added; gRPC API for QML added; static build for well-known types fixed; a basic usage example with a step-by-step guide added; added […]
Version 4.0 of the well-known financial accounting program GnuCash has been released. It features a hierarchical account system, can split a single transaction into multiple parts, and directly import account data from the internet. It is based on professional accounting principles, comes with a set of standard reports, and allows users to create their own reports, both new and modified […]
Firefox 78 is now available. The PDF download dialog has been updated with an option to 'Open in Firefox'. Users can now disable the display of top sites when clicking on the address bar (browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites). The menu items 'Close Tabs to the Right' and 'Close Other Tabs' have been moved to a separate submenu. If a user has closed several tabs at once (for example, using 'Close Other Tabs'), the 'Restore Closed […]
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 […]
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. […]
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