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The developers of the Linux Mint distribution announced that the next major release, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base, will support only 64-bit systems. The creation of builds for 32-bit x86 systems will be discontinued. The release is expected in July or late June. The supported desktops include Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. It is worth noting that Canonical has stopped creating 32-bit installation […]
On April 1, version 0.4.1 of the free, BSD-licensed real-time operating system for embedded systems, Embox, was released: functionality on Raspberry Pi has been restored. Support for the RISC-V architecture has been improved. Support for the i.MX 6 platform has been enhanced. EHCI support has been significantly improved, including for the i.MX 6 platform. The file subsystem has undergone extensive rework. Lua support has been added for STM32 microcontrollers. Network support has been added […]
Version 5.4 of the WordPress content management system, named 'Adderley' after jazz musician Nat Adderley, is now available. The main changes concern the block editor: the selection of blocks and their configuration options have been expanded. Other changes include increased performance; a simplified control panel interface; added privacy settings; and important changes for developers: menu parameter modifications that previously required editing are now accessible 'from […]
As the launch date for Intel Comet Lake-S desktop processors approaches, more preliminary information is emerging online that reveals details about their performance. One of the latest leaks was published by user Tum_Apisak, who found benchmarking results for the rumored Core i9-10900K in the Geekbench 5 database. The i9-10900K is expected to succeed the i9-9900K, from which […]
The CentOS and Fedora projects have announced their decision to create a collaborative development service called Git Forge, which will be built using the GitLab platform. GitLab will serve as the primary platform for interacting with Git repositories and for hosting projects related to the CentOS and Fedora distributions. The previously used Pagure service will continue to exist but will be handed over to the community interested in ongoing development. […]
Microsoft has corrected its earlier claim of a "775 percent increase in cloud services in regions where social distancing was implemented or self-isolation was recommended." Specifically, it revised a blog announcement and published a correction for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The updated message reads: "We are seeing an increase in calls and meetings from users in Teams […
Information has been published about a vulnerability (CVE-2020-8835) in the Linux kernel, which was used in the Pwn2Own 2020 competition during the demonstration of a breach in Ubuntu. The vulnerability allowed a non-privileged user to gain root access. A working exploit exists but has not yet been published. The vulnerability is present in the eBPF subsystem, which allows handlers for tracing, performance analysis of subsystems, and traffic management to be executed within the kernel in a special virtual […
Following nearly two years since the formation of the last significant branch, the release of OpenMediaVault 5 has taken place, aimed at the rapid deployment of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The OpenMediaVault project was founded in 2009 after a split among developers of the FreeNAS distribution, resulting in a fork that, alongside the classic FreeNAS based on FreeBSD, aimed to […
Information has been disclosed about two vulnerabilities in the automatic update delivery system for the integrated development environment Apache NetBeans, allowing for the substitution of updates and nbm packages delivered by the server. These issues were addressed discreetly in the release of Apache NetBeans 11.3. The first vulnerability (CVE-2019-17560) is due to the lack of SSL certificate and hostname verification when downloading data via HTTPS, enabling the unnoticed substitution of downloads […]
The release of the proprietary RAR archiver version 5.90 has been announced. Changes in the console version include: Increased RAR compression speed when using processors with 16 or more cores. When creating RAR5 archives, the 'Fastest' compression method usually provides denser packing for well-compressible data. (The command line equivalent is the -m1 switch) The maximum number of threads used has been increased from 32 to 64. […]
Huawei has released the Linux distribution openEuler 20.03, which is the first release to be supported under a long-term support cycle (LTS). Package updates for openEuler 20.03 will be issued until March 31, 2024. Repositories and installation ISO images (x86_64 and aarch64) are available for free download along with the source texts of the packages. The source texts specific to the distribution's components are hosted in […]
On March 27, the release of Wine 5.5 took place. Wine is an application compatibility layer for Windows that translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls in real-time, rather than emulating Windows logic like a virtual machine. In addition to over 32 fixes in the bug tracker, the new release features: Built-in libraries now use the UCRTBase C runtime, improved support for debug information in PE files. Added […]