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On March 20, version 1.0.0 of the ‘Intel Optimization Zone – Intel Tuning Guides’ was released — a repository dedicated to optimizing software for Intel, ranging from BIOS settings for specific workloads to recommended application/server software configurations for achieving maximum performance on Intel hardware. The repository contains tuning guides, optimization recipes, and the most well-known methods and recommendations for analysis […]
Cloudflare has released the EmDash content management system. Like WordPress, the new system supports extension through plugins, allows templates for building various types of websites, and provides an administration interface, but it can operate on serverless computing platforms and enhances security through the use of TypeScript with static types and the isolation of plugins in separate sandbox environments. […]
After over a year of development, on March 32, version 1.0.0 Beta of the cross-platform, multithreaded, SIMD-optimized file manager FARS was released. Features: It requires any terminal emulator that supports Sixel formats, Kitty Graphics Protocol, or iTerm2. It is preferable for the terminal to support the Kitty Keyboard Protocol for more key combinations to be available. Parsing ESC sequences in the terminal is conducted by the Lug 0.5.0 library. For user […]
The release of wayland-protocols package 1.48 has been presented, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the basic Wayland protocol and provide the necessary features to build composite servers and user environments. In the new version: The ‘staging’ category has added the xdg-session-management protocol, which provides capabilities for restoring the state and position of windows from an interrupted session in Wayland-based environments, for example, after an abrupt termination of the composite […]
The Gentoo project has prepared an experimental system image with the GNU Hurd kernel and published scripts for building the image independently and facilitating further development of the Hurd port. Future releases of stage and automated image builds are planned, as well as achieving parity with Gentoo Linux on x86-64 systems. Those interested can try the ready-made Gentoo GNU Hurd image by running it using QEMU: $ […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2026-4747) has been fixed in FreeBSD that allows remote code execution at the kernel level by sending network packets to an NFS server. The issue manifests when using the kgssapi.ko module, which implements the RPCSEC_GSS API on the kernel side. In addition to the kernel, the vulnerability affects user-space applications that use the librpcgss_sec library and perform RPC server functions. Such applications, which are not part of the base FreeBSD system, […]
On March 30, 2026, another release quietly came out from a popular library among users of linux.org.ru. The main changes from the changelog are characterized as follows: Extensive code refactoring using the AI model Claude Opus 5.6 Some modules have been rewritten in Rust Deprecated APIs for calling ancient deities have been removed (see issue #666) Thanks to collaboration with Marvel Entertainment, significantly […]
Anthropic accidentally published the complete unobfuscated and unfiltered source code of the Claude Code toolkit in TypeScript as part of the NPM package release 2.1.88. The code was included in the map file cli.js.map, used during debugging. To prevent such leaks, developers are advised to remember to add the '*.map' mask to the '.npmignore' file. The archive with […]
Collabora has introduced the Linux distribution Apertis 2026, originally designed to support automotive systems but then reoriented for a wider range of electronic devices, embedded technologies, and industrial equipment. Among the devices using Apertis are the Atari VCS gaming console, Raspberry Pi 4 board, R-car automotive SoCs, and the Bosch D-tect 200 object detection scanner for walls. Benchmark […]
Attackers were able to hijack a maintainer's account and release two malicious NPM packages of axios, which provides an HTTP client implementation for browsers and Node.js. The axios package has over 100 million downloads per week and is a dependency for 174,000 other packages. The malicious changes were integrated into the releases of Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 through the substitution of the fake dependency plain-crypto-js 4.2.1, […]
After several years of development, debugging, discussions, improvements, and efforts, the stable release of ‘Alt Mobile’ has come out — a distribution for mobile devices that is kept up to date alongside other distributions on the Eleventh platform. This is not AOSP — it is the familiar ‘Alt’. Unlike most popular mobile operating systems, ‘Alt Mobile’ is not based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and does not […]
The release of Archinstall 4.0 has been published, which has been an option in the Arch Linux installation ISO images since 2021. Archinstall operates in console mode and can be used instead of the default manual installation mode. The Archinstall code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Archinstall provides both guided and automated modes of operation. In […]