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Microsoft has introduced new features for the Teams communication platform, aimed at enhancing employee interaction in the corporate environment. Microsoft Teams is designed for collaboration among company employees, integrated with Office 365 applications, and positioned as a work tool for corporate interaction. Users of this service can form teams within which they can create open channels for groups […]
The outbreak of the coronavirus, which continues to spread globally, is affecting all tech companies. One such impact is the transition of employees to remote work from home. Today, Google announced that due to the shift to remote work, the release of new versions of the Chrome browser and the Chrome OS platform will be temporarily halted. The relevant notification was published by the developers in […]
Firefox developers have announced a plan to completely discontinue support for the FTP protocol, which will affect both the ability to upload files via FTP and to browse directory contents on FTP servers. In the upcoming Firefox 77 release, scheduled for June 2, FTP support will be disabled by default, but a setting "network.ftp.enabled" will be added to about:config to restore FTP functionality. In Firefox ESR builds 78, FTP support will continue to be available […]
Corrective releases of the Tor toolkit (0.3.5.10, 0.4.1.9, 0.4.2.7, 0.4.3.3-alpha) have been presented, used for enabling the operation of the anonymous Tor network. The new versions fix two vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-10592, which can be exploited by any attacker to initiate a denial of service on relays. The attack can also be executed from Tor directory servers targeting clients and hidden services. An attacker can create […]
Java SE 14 was released on March 17. The following changes were introduced: Switch expressions have been added in the form of case VALUE -> {}, which exit the default condition and do not require a break statement. Text blocks, defined by triple quotes «»», have reached the second preview stage. Control sequences have been added, which do not add […] before the newline.
On March 15, the beta version of the Devuan 3 Beowulf distribution was released, which is based on Debian 10 Buster. Devuan is a fork of Debian GNU/Linux without systemd that "gives users control over their system by avoiding unnecessary complexity and ensuring freedom of choice of the initialization system." Changes include: the behavior of su has been altered. The default invocation now does not change the PATH variable. The old behavior now requires […]
The first beta release of the Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" distribution, a fork of Debian GNU/Linux that is provided without the system manager systemd, has been formed. The new branch is notable for its transition to the Debian 10 "Buster" package base. Live builds and installation ISO images have been prepared for AMD64 and i386 architectures. Devuan-specific packages can be downloaded from the repository packages.devuan.org. The project has created forks for 381 Debian packages, […]
After four months of beta testing, GitHub announced the stabilization of mobile applications for iOS and Android, allowing the use of smartphones or tablets for participation in development. The apps enable tracking project status, viewing code, resolving issues, reviewing pull requests, and merging changes. Source: opennet.ru
After six months of development, Oracle has released the Java SE 14 platform (Java Platform, Standard Edition 14), with the open source project OpenJDK serving as the reference implementation. Java SE 14 maintains backward compatibility with previous Java platform releases, ensuring that all previously written Java projects will run without changes on the new version. Installable builds are ready […]
As the saying goes, GNU/Linux is great because it allows you to set up a familiar interface reminiscent of Windows, or you can create something unusual and unconventional. For retro enthusiasts, there’s good news — making your computer resemble the good old warm vacuum tube computers from the early 90s has become even easier. Not so Common Desktop Environment, or abbreviated as […]
On March 16, Oracle announced the release of Solaris 11.4 SRU19. This release includes another series of bug fixes and introduces some improvements. Solaris is an operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for the SPARC platform and has been owned by Oracle since 2010 along with Sun's assets. Despite being a closed-source operating system, most […]
The beta testing of Fedora 32 has begun. This beta release marks the transition to the final stage of testing, where only critical bug fixes are allowed. The release is scheduled for the end of April. It covers Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, and Live builds, provided in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt. The builds are prepared for x86_64 architectures, […]