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Derek Yu, the creator of the successful 2D platformer Spelunky, shared new screenshots and details about the second part on the PlayStation Blog. It still doesn’t have a release date, but the game designer assured that development is progressing well. Spelunky 2 was announced in October 2017 during the Paris Games Week.
Valve has published the first release of the new branch of the Proton 5.0 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only gaming applications in the Steam Linux client. The package includes...
After six months of development, the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment has been released. Compared to the previous release, approximately 24,000 changes have been made with contributions from 780 developers. Specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and Ubuntu have been prepared for quick evaluation of GNOME 3.36's capabilities. Key innovations include a separate Extensions application designed for managing GNOME add-ons.
The release of SDL 2.0.12 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has taken place, aimed at simplifying game and multimedia application development. The SDL library provides tools such as hardware-accelerated output for 2D and 3D graphics, input handling, sound playback, 3D output via OpenGL/OpenGL ES, and a variety of other auxiliary operations. The library is written in C and distributed under the zlib license. To utilize the capabilities of […]
Whether a modern desktop system needs 32 GB of RAM is a question that is difficult to answer definitively. Tests show that the vast majority of gaming applications do not require such a large amount of RAM, especially if the platform features a graphics card with sufficient video memory and a performant solid-state drive. Therefore, the 'gold standard' for modern desktop systems generally suggests using a kit of […]
On March 8th, the data caching system in RAM, Memcached, was updated to version 1.6.0. The main difference from earlier releases is that now it is possible to use external devices for the storage of cached data. Memcached is used to accelerate the operation of high-load websites or web applications by caching access to databases and intermediate data. In the new version, when compiling […]
On March 11th, another version of SDL 2.0.12 was released. SDL is a cross-platform development library providing low-level access to input devices, audio hardware, and graphics hardware through OpenGL and Direct3D. Various video players, emulators, and computer games, including those provided as free software, have been developed using SDL. SDL is written in C and works with C++ while providing […]
The OnePlus 5 and 5T smartphones, the flagship devices of 2017, have started receiving the OxygenOS update. The current firmware build number 9.0.11 includes several minor improvements and, most importantly, a security patch dated February 2020. Back in 2018, OnePlus announced that every smartphone it produces would receive at least two Android version updates and 3 years […]
The new stable release of WebKitGTK 2.28.0, a port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform, has been announced. WebKitGTK allows you to leverage all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, ranging from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include Midori […]
Details have been revealed about a new class of attacks LVI (Load Value Injection, CVE-2020-0551) targeting speculative execution in Intel CPUs, which can be exploited to leak keys and sensitive data from Intel SGX enclaves and other processes. This new class of attacks is based on manipulations of the same microarchitectural structures as those found in MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling), Spectre […]
On March 11, 2020, after nearly nine months of development, a significant new release of the HestiaCP control panel for VPS servers has been launched. Notable features of this release include: Support for custom themes (yes, we now have a dark theme too); read-only/demo mode support; a compact (one-click) installer for popular web applications: WordPress, Laravel, OpenCart, Symfony Framework; complete support for multiple […]
PostgreSQL Anonymizer is a plugin for the PostgreSQL database management system that allows the hiding or alteration of confidential data or information that constitutes commercial secrets. Data is hidden on the fly, using user lists for anonymization and configured rule templates. The tool can be used to grant third parties access to the database (e.g., analytical services), automatically removing personal data from queries, such as phone numbers […]