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The release of the Mir 1.8 display server has been announced, which is still being developed by Canonical despite its withdrawal from Unity shell development and Ubuntu for smartphones. Mir continues to be in demand for Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]
Roman Gilg, a contributor to the development of KDE, Wayland, Xwayland, and X Server, has introduced the KWinFT (KWin Fast Track) project, which develops a flexible and user-friendly composite window manager for Wayland and X11 based on the KWin codebase. In addition to the window manager, the project is also developing the wrapland library that provides a wrapper for libwayland for Qt/C++, continuing the development of KWayland, […]
The release of the NGINX Unit 1.17 application server has taken place, which enhances the solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). With NGINX Unit, multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously, and their launch parameters can be modified dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]
In May, the Windows 10 operating system will receive a search feature similar to Spotlight in macOS. To enable it, users will need to install the PowerToys utility, which simplifies certain tasks and is designed for advanced users. The new search tool will replace the 'run' window invoked by the Win + R key combination. By entering queries in the pop-up field, users will be able to quickly find […]
In the modern reality, where many of us work from home, it becomes clear that many computers are equipped with very mediocre microphones. Even worse, many people lack a quiet environment conducive to audio and video conferences. To address this issue, NVIDIA has introduced the RTX Voice software tool. The new application is not related to ray tracing, as […]
A corrective release of the OpenVPN 2.4.9 package for creating virtual private networks has been formed. In the new version, a vulnerability (CVE-2020-11810) has been fixed, which allows a client's session to be switched to a new IP address that was not previously authorized. This issue can be exploited to interrupt a client that has just connected at a stage when the peer-id has already been formed, but session key negotiation has not been completed (one client can […]
The Fedora project developers have announced a one-week delay for the release of Fedora 32 due to failure to meet quality criteria. The Fedora 32 release is now planned for April 28, instead of the originally scheduled April 21. Three issues remain unfixed in the final test builds that are classified as release-blocking. Among the release-blocking issues are problems with recognition […]
Oracle announced the expansion of the capabilities of the Oracle Academy online learning platform and the conversion of several educational online courses to free. The free resources of Oracle Academy are designed to teach database management, the basics of SQL, programming in Java, as well as software development using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The courses are available in various languages, […]
Valve has released version 5.0-6 of the Proton project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based gaming applications on Linux, which are available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows the direct launch of gaming applications provided only for Windows in the Steam Linux client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10942) has been identified in the vhost-net driver, which provides virtio net functionality on the host environment, allowing a local user to initiate a kernel stack overflow by sending a specially crafted ioctl(VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND) to the /dev/vhost-net device. The issue arises from the lack of proper validation of the sk_family field content in the get_raw_socket() function code. Preliminary reports indicate that the vulnerability could be leveraged for a local DoS attack through kernel crash calls (details are […]
GitHub Inc, owned by Microsoft and operating as an independent business unit, has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of the NPM Inc business, which oversees the development of the NPM package manager and maintains the NPM repository. The NPM repository serves over 1.3 million packages used by approximately 12 million developers, with about 75 billion downloads recorded monthly. The deal amount is […]
Guix System is a Linux distribution based on the GNU Guix package manager. The distribution provides advanced package management features, such as transactional updates and rollbacks, reproducible build environments, management of unprivileged packages, and profiles for each user. The latest release of the project is Guix System 1.1.0, which introduces a range of new features and improvements, including the ability to perform large-scale deployments […]