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An intra-kernel implementation of WireGuard for OpenBSD has been announced

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On the company's Twitter, EdgeSecurity, founded by the author of WireGuard, announced the creation of a native and fully supported implementation of the WireGuard VPN for OpenBSD. A screenshot demonstrating the functionality was shared as confirmation. The readiness of patches for the OpenBSD kernel has also been confirmed by Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of WireGuard, in the announcement of updates for wireguard-tools. Currently, only external patches are available, […]

AOL has released the Moloch 2.3 network traffic indexing system

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AOL has released version 2.3 of the Moloch system for capturing, storing, and indexing network packets, providing tools for visualizing traffic flows and searching for information related to network activity. The code is written in C (with an interface in Node.js/JavaScript) and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports operation on Linux and FreeBSD. Pre-packaged versions are available for various CentOS releases. […]

Firefox 78 will feature a process manager.

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which Firefox 78 will be based as of June 30, a new about:processes page has been added, introducing a process manager. This new page allows users to assess which processes and handlers are running, which internal threads are executing in each process, and how much CPU and memory each thread and process consumes. The CPU usage is separated by user-space code […]

Hackers have released the personal data of 73 million people on the dark web

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The hacker group ShinyHunters breached the databases of ten major companies and gained access to the personal information of 73 million people. The stolen data is already being sold on the dark web for a total of about $18,000. Details of the incident were shared by ZDNet. Each database is sold separately. To prove the authenticity of the stolen information, the group released part of it publicly. […]

The SPDX 2.2 standard for sharing information about licenses in packages has been published.

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The Linux Foundation has introduced a new version of the SPDX 2.2 (Software Package Data Exchange) standard, offering a set of specifications for publishing and sharing information about licenses and intellectual property details. The specification allows for the indication of not only the overall license for the entire package but also the specifics of licensing for individual files and fragments, specifying the owners of property rights to the code and the individuals […]

FreeRDP 2.1 has been updated to address 8 vulnerabilities.

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A new release of the FreeRDP 2.1 project has been published, offering an open-source implementation of the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) remote access protocol, developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used for remote connection to Windows desktops. The project's code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. In the new […]

Embeddable Common Lisp 20.4.24

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After three years of development, a new version of ECL – the Common Lisp interpreter – was released on April 24. ECL, published under the LGPL-2.1+ license, can be used both as an embedded interpreter and to build stand-alone libraries and executable files (with the ability to compile to C). Changes include: support for local nicknames in packages; support for atomic operations; specialized representation of complex types […]

Microsoft will add a dual-screen emulator to Chromium

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According to network sources, Microsoft is working on a new feature called 'dual screen emulation,' which is intended for the Chromium platform. This tool will primarily benefit developers who are optimizing websites for display on dual-screen devices. Regular users will also find this feature helpful as it will make browsing web pages on […] more comfortable.

The developers of the Linux font stack have dropped support for subpixel rendering.

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Some users utilizing the 'hintfull' hinting method may have noticed that when transitioning from Pango version 1.43 to 1.44, the kerning for certain font families has deteriorated or completely broken. This issue is caused by the Pango library switching from using FreeType for obtaining kerning information (the spacing between glyphs) to HarfBuzz, and the developers of the latter decided not to support rendering […].

The XMPP client Kaidan 0.5.0 has been released.

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After more than six months of development, the latest release of the XMPP client Kaidan has arrived. The program is written in C++ using Qt, QXmpp, and the Kirigami framework and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Android (experimental build). The release of the Windows builds and in Flatpak format is delayed. Qt 5.12 and QXmpp 1.2 are required for the build […]

Release of the FreeType font engine 2.10.2

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The release of FreeType 2.10.2 has been announced, a modular font engine that provides a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data in various vector and raster formats. The most significant innovation is the support for fonts in WOFF2 (Web Open Font Format), which employs the Brotli compression algorithm. Additionally, the CFF engine has added support for Type 1 fonts without whole […]

DosBox-staging 0.75.0

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DosBox is an emulator for computers running MS-DOS. The latest version, 0.74, was released ten years ago. Recently, a stable version of the fork was released. A number of long-standing bugs have been fixed (for instance, Arcade Volleyball is now functioning), recent library versions have been supported, and some conveniences have been added. New: SDL 2.0 instead of 1.2 Emulation of CD audio tracks from FLAC, Opus, Vorbis, MP3 files via imgmount (who […]

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