Category: Internet News

Bitbucket reminds of the imminent removal of Mercurial repositories and moves away from the word Master in Git

On July 1, the support period for Mercurial repositories on the Bitbucket collaborative development platform expires. The announcement to discontinue Mercurial in favor of Git was made last August, after which, on February 1, 2020, the creation of new Mercurial repositories was prohibited. The final phase of phasing out Mercurial is scheduled for July 1, 2020, which entails disabling all related support in Bitbucket […]

In gaming tests, the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M came close to the GeForce RTX 2060.

Recently, Apple has been offering a new exclusive option for the MacBook Pro 16 laptop: the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M mobile graphics card, which combines the Navi 12 (RDNA) GPU and HBM2 memory. You will have to pay an additional $700 for its installation on top of the base laptop price. It's not cheap, but in this case, the buyer will get a true gaming monster. Previously […]

Release of the self-sufficient package system Flatpak 1.8.0

A new stable branch of the Flatpak 1.8 toolset has been released, providing a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container isolating the application from the rest of the system. Flatpak package support is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository and are supported […]

Release of the Live Distribution Grml 2020.06

After a year and a half of development, the release of the Live distribution grml 2020.06, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base, has been published. The distribution includes a collection of tools for processing text data with the texttools package and for performing tasks that arise in the practice of system administrators (data recovery after failure, incident analysis, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. The size […]

Perl 7 has been announced

At today's virtual conference for Perl developers, the Perl 7 project was announced, which will smoothly continue the evolution of the Perl 5 branch without making radical changes. Perl 7 will be similar to the Perl 5.32.0 release, except for different default settings that better align with modern development practices. Otherwise, Perl 7 will remain the same Perl 5 and will maintain compatibility with previous […]

Stable Release of Database Management System MariaDB 10.5

After a year of development and four beta releases, the first stable release of the new MariaDB 10.4 branch has been prepared. This branch evolves from MySQL, retaining backward compatibility while integrating additional storage engines and expanded capabilities. Support for this new branch will be provided for five years, until June 2025. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent MariaDB Foundation in accordance with […]

Vulnerability in the Bitdefender SafePay browser leading to code execution

Vladimir Palant, the creator of Adblock Plus, has discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2020-8102) in the Chromium-based specialized web browser Safepay, offered as part of the Bitdefender Total Security 2020 antivirus package and aimed at enhancing user security in the global network (for example, it provides additional isolation when accessing banks and payment systems). The vulnerability allows websites opened in the browser to execute arbitrary […]

Lemmy 0.7.0

The release of another major version of Lemmy has taken place — a future federated, but currently centralized implementation of a Reddit-like (or Hacker News, Lobsters) link aggregator. This time, 100 issue reports have been closed, new functionality has been added, and performance and security have been improved. The server implements typical functionality for such sites: content created and moderated by users in interest-based communities — […]

The first stable release of the graph-oriented DBMS Nebula Graph

The release of the open-source DBMS Nebula Graph 1.0.0 has taken place, designed for the efficient storage of large sets of interconnected data forming a graph that can contain billions of nodes and trillions of connections. The project is written in C++ and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Client libraries for accessing the DBMS have been prepared for Go, Python, and Java. The DBMS developing startup VESoft […]

Microsoft has released a Defender ATP package for Linux

Microsoft has announced the availability of the Microsoft Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) package for the Linux platform. The product is designed for proactive protection, tracking unpatched vulnerabilities, and detecting and removing malicious activity in the system. The platform combines an antivirus package, a network intrusion detection system, an exploit protection mechanism (including zero-day), and additional […]

Release of static analyzer cppcheck 2.1

A new release of the free static analyzer cppcheck 2.1 is available, allowing for the identification of various classes of errors in C and C++ code, including when using non-standard syntax typical for embedded systems. A collection of plugins is provided, ensuring integration of cppcheck with various development, continuous integration, and testing systems, as well as capabilities such as compliance checking […]

hashcat v6.0.0

In the 6.0.0 release of the hashcat program for password cracking across more than 320 types of hashes (using GPU capabilities), the developer introduced numerous improvements: A new plugin interface supporting modular hash modes. A new API interface supporting APIs other than OpenCL. CUDA support. Detailed documentation for plugin developers. GPU emulation mode — to run kernel code on the CPU (instead of […]

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