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Almost a year after the first stable release, the second major version of Pleroma — a federated social network for microblogging written in Elixir and utilizing the standardized W3C ActivityPub protocol — has been presented on International Women's Day. It is the second largest network in the Fediverse. Unlike its closest competitor, Mastodon, which is written in Ruby and relies on […]
The release of the APT 2.0 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit developed by the Debian project has been prepared. In addition to Debian and its derivatives, APT is also used in some distributions based on the RPM package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. The new branch incorporates changes accumulated during the development of the experimental 1.9.x branch. The new release is expected soon […]
Vivo produces numerous smartphones with attractive designs, the latest hardware, features, and often innovative solutions. However, when it comes to rolling out updates, the company significantly lags behind competitors. Android 10 is no exception (though part of this can be attributed to the coronavirus outbreak). Vivo introduced Funtouch OS 10 back in December. The latest version of the company's interface is based on […]
A new version of Delta Chat 1.2 has been released — a messenger that uses email as a transport instead of its own servers (chat-over-email, a specialized email client functioning as a messenger). The app code is distributed under the GPLv3 license, and the base library is available under the MPL 2.0 (Mozilla Public License). The release is available on Google Play. In the new version: Traffic consumption has been reduced. Delta Chat no longer […]
The release of the web browser Min 1.13 has taken place, offering a minimalist interface built around address bar manipulations. The browser is created using the Electron platform, allowing for the development of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports navigation […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the pppd package (CVE-2020-8597), allowing the execution of custom code by sending specially crafted authentication requests to systems using the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) or PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) protocols. These protocols are commonly used by providers for establishing connections over Ethernet or DSL, and are also used in some VPNs (such as pptpd and openfortivpn). To check for vulnerability in your […]
Positive Technologies has released a comprehensive report that examines current cyber threats and trends in the world of cybercrime. Overall, the cybersecurity situation is worsening. In the last quarter of 2019, the number of unique incidents increased by 12% compared to the previous quarter. At the same time, the share of targeted attacks rose by 2%, reaching 67%. Cybercriminals continue to actively use […]
After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 245 has been presented. The new release includes new components systemd-homed and systemd-repart, support for portable user profiles in JSON format, the capability to define namespaces in systemd-journald, and support for the 'pidfd' mechanism. The project's website has been completely redesigned, consolidating most of the available documentation and featuring a new logo. […]
Daniel Mach from Red Hat announced the start of development for the DNF 5 package manager, which will move the logic implemented in Python for DNF into the libdnf library written in C++. Testing for DNF 5 is planned to begin in June during the development of Fedora 33, followed by its addition to the Rawhide repository in October 2020, […]
After a year of development, a stable version of the GNU Coreutils 8.32 package is available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, ls, etc. Key innovations: The stat and ls utilities have been adapted to use the more efficiently functioning system call statx when available. In the utilities […]
A serious bug has been discovered in the BIND 9.16.0 branch published two weeks ago, which leads to the exhaustion of the TCP connection limit. In BIND 9.16, a new networking subsystem was proposed, transitioned to an asynchronous request processing mechanism based on the libuv library. Due to an error in this subsystem, the counter of active TCP connections does not decrease under certain conditions, leading to an increasing discrepancy of […]
On March 4, the new version of PowerShell 7 was released. PowerShell is a "cross-platform automation and configuration framework optimized for structured data, REST APIs, and object models," which includes a command shell, an object-oriented language, and a set of tools for executing scripts and managing modules. New features include: Parallel processing of objects in ForEach-Object New operators: […]