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Some computers in French government institutions are set to transition from Windows to Linux.

David Amiel, the Minister of Budget, Public Accounts, and Civil Administration of France, announced plans to migrate certain computers in government institutions from Windows to Linux. This migration is part of an initiative to ensure digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on non-European technology companies. Amiel emphasized that the French government can no longer tolerate relying on non-European technologies.

Update of the compact table for PCB reflow soldering

Video. The device is designed for easy assembly of printed circuit boards with solder paste at home. Since the first announcement of the project, many useful changes have occurred: The most significant is the completion of support for leaded pastes (using MCH heaters). The web application has been completely redesigned according to Material Design 3. The structure has been significantly improved (no need to glue anything, and the height of the case has been reduced). Import-export functionality has been added.

Release of Cage 0.3, a composite server based on Wayland for creating kiosks

The composite server Cage 0.3 has been released, utilizing Wayland and designed for the isolated execution of individual applications in kiosk mode. Use cases for Cage include the creation of home automation systems, demonstration stands, electronic signs, and self-service terminals. The project's code is written in C and is released under the MIT license. The interface in Cage is limited to a single application, and the user cannot exit.

Solod is a subset of the Go language that is transpiled to C language.

The programming language Solod (So) has been introduced, offering a subset of the Go language that is transcompiled into a C (C11) representation suitable for compilation with GCC, Clang, and zig cc. A key distinction of Solod from Go is the use of manual memory management, functioning without a garbage collector, automatic allocation, or reference counting. The transpiler for Solod is written in Go.

Neovim 0.12

On March 29, 2026, the release of text editor Neovim version 0.12 took place, followed by a corrective release 0.12.1 on April 6. This is one of the largest releases in recent times: over 340 issues have been closed, a built-in plugin manager has been added, an HTTP client, a restart command, the built-in LSP client has been significantly expanded, and the messaging subsystem has been experimentally redesigned. Incompatible changes: deprecated API vim.diagnostic has been removed; Ctrl-R in […]

Red Hat is disbanding its engineering division in China

Red Hat has laid off several hundred employees from its Red Hat China division and is relocating part of its Chinese engineering team to the office in India. Various sources mention a reduction of between 300 to 500 workers, while the overall headcount will remain unchanged due to an increase in staff in the Asia-Pacific region. The reason given for the downsizing of the Chinese division is a new geostrategy that defines key […]

PureBasic 6.40

On April 10, 2026, a new version of PureBasic was released. The program is designed for creating cross-platform applications (Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry). The distribution includes an IDE (editor, debugger, tools, GUI form visual editor), compiler, and documentation in three languages (Russian is supported by users). In addition to desktop application development, PureBasic is positioned as a tool for creating 2D and 3D games on the OGRE engine. It supports databases […]

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The release of Deepin 25.1 has been published, which develops its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) along with around 40 user applications, including the Deepin Music player, Deepin Movie video player, installer, and Deepin Store software center. The project is founded by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project and supports the Russian language. The distribution repository includes over 8000 […]

SQLite 3.53.0

On April 9, the release of version 3.53.0 of the compact cross-platform embedded DBMS SQLite took place. The project's code is written in C and is released as public domain. Changes: Fixed the WAL-reset database corruption bug. See the previous SQLite 3.51.3 news for a fix regarding possible database corruption in WAL mode. The Query Result Formatter (QRF) library has been added to format SQL query results for […]

The release of the Deepin 25.1 distribution, which develops its own graphical environment.

Several dangerous vulnerabilities have been identified in recent days, most of which can be exploited remotely: In the corrective release of the GStreamer 1.28.2 multimedia framework, 11 vulnerabilities were found, 3 of which are caused by buffer overflows and could potentially allow code execution when processing specially crafted multimedia containers MKV (CVE not assigned) and MOV/MP4 (CVE-2026-5056), as well as H.266/VVC streams […]

Release of SQLite DB 3.53

The release of SQLite 3.53 has been published, a lightweight DBMS presented as a dynamic library. Release 3.52 was canceled. The code of SQLite is released as public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and freely for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium. Key changes: Fixed a bug that led to database corruption. The issue has been present since version SQLite […]

Lite Catalog is available, a catalog of open programs for Windows

The first release of the Lite Catalog application has been published, implementing an interface for searching and installing open and free applications compiled for the Windows platform. Concurrently, the project supports a git repository with a catalog that currently features 141 applications. For some programs, archive versions compatible with outdated Windows releases are available. The project does not create or distribute builds on its own but […]

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