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Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 and KnotDNS 2.9.3

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The release of the caching DNS server PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 has taken place, responsible for recursive name resolution. PowerDNS Recursor is built on the same codebase as the PowerDNS Authoritative Server, but the recursive and authoritative DNS servers of PowerDNS are developed on different development cycles and are released as separate products. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The server provides tools for remote statistics collection, supporting […]

Release of Samba 4.12.0

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On March 3rd, the release of Samba 4.12.0 was announced. Samba is a set of programs and utilities for working with network drives and printers across various operating systems via the SMB/CIFS protocol. It includes both client and server components. It is free software released under the GPL v3 license. Key changes: The code has been cleaned of all cryptographic implementations in favor of external libraries. The main […]

Google Assistant has learned to read web pages aloud

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The Google Assistant virtual assistant for the Android platform is becoming more useful for people with visual impairments as well as those learning foreign languages. Developers have added the capability for the assistant to read aloud the contents of web pages. Google states that this new function combines many of the company's advancements in speech technology. As a result, this feature works more naturally […]

Nightly builds of Firefox have introduced the ability to install websites as applications

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis of the Firefox 75 release, the ability to install and open websites as applications is added, allowing users to work with the site like a regular desktop program. To enable this, you need to add the setting "browser.ssb.enabled=true" in about:config, after which the menu item "Install […]" will appear in the context menu for page actions (the three dots in the address bar).

PowerShell 7.0 shell is now available

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Microsoft has released PowerShell 7.0, the source code of which was opened in 2016 under the MIT license. The new shell version is prepared not only for Windows but also for Linux and macOS. PowerShell is optimized for automating command line operations and provides built-in tools for processing structured data in formats such as JSON, […]

New curl version 7.69

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A new version of the tool for sending and receiving data over the network — curl 7.69.0 — is now available, providing flexible request formatting with parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer, and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP, and other network protocols. An update for the concurrently developed library libcurl has also been released.

The ability to register phishing domains with similar unicode characters in the name

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Researchers from Soluble have discovered a new way to register domains with homoglyphs, visually similar to other domains but differing due to the presence of characters with different meanings. Such internationalized domain names (IDNs) can initially appear indistinguishable from domains of well-known companies and services, allowing their use for phishing, including obtaining valid TLS certificates for them. […]

Release of Samba 4.12.0

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The release of Samba 4.12.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a fully implemented domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of serving all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server, printing service, and identity server (winbind) capabilities. Key changes […]

Release of nginx 1.17.9 and njs 0.3.9

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The release of the main branch of nginx 1.17.9 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (the parallel stable branch 1.16 only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes: Specifying multiple 'Host' header lines in a request is prohibited; Fixed a bug where nginx ignored additional 'Transfer-Encoding' header lines in a request; Fixes to prevent leaks […]

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The release of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 is available, an operating system with a hybrid kernel created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Notable features of DragonFly BSD include the distributed versioned file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernels as user processes, the ability to cache data and metadata of the FS on SSD drives, taking into account context-sensitive symbolic links, the ability to freeze processes […]

Release nEMU 2.3.0 — an interface to QEMU based on ncurses pseudographics.

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The release of nEMU version 2.3.0 has occurred. nEMU is an ncurses interface to QEMU that simplifies the creation, configuration, and management of virtual machines. The code is written in C and released under the BSD-2 license. What's new: A monitoring daemon for virtual machines has been added: it sends notifications to D-Bus through the org.freedesktop.Notifications interface when the state changes. New command line keys for managing virtual machines: —powerdown, —force-stop, —reset, […]

Nginx 1.17.9 release is out.

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nginx 1.17.9 has been released, a new version in the current mainline branch of the nginx web server. The mainline branch is actively developed, while only bug fixes are made to the current stable branch (1.16). Change: nginx now does not allow multiple 'Host' header lines in a request. Fix: nginx ignored additional 'Transfer-Encoding' header lines in a request. Fix: socket leaks when using […]

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