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Microsoft is testing a new browser behavior model for Edge in Windows 11. Participants in the Windows Insider Program report that a banner appears at the top of the web browser indicating that the application “now launches on Windows login, so it's ready when you want to browse the web. You can change this at any time in settings.” Journalists […]
A minor release of the 'Alt Server' operating system 11.1 has been launched. The build is prepared for x86_64 and AArch64 based on kernel 6.12 (LTS). Download the image from ftp.altlinux.org download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru In the new image, the edition selection has been moved to the installer interface — one ISO allows you to deploy different configurations. Package lists are generated dynamically, depending on the selected edition — 'Alt Server' or 'Alt Domain'. […]
ICT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 13.2 distribution, built on the rosa 13 platform. The distribution is available for free and developed with community involvement. The release is aimed at a wide range of users. Available for download are builds with KDE 6 desktops (4 GB), KDE 5 (4 GB), LXQt (3 GB), and GNOME (4 GB), along with builds for servers […]
After six months of development, OpenSSH 10.3 has been released, an open-source implementation of client and server for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Key changes: A vulnerability was fixed that allowed an attacker controlling the username passed when running the ssh utility to potentially execute arbitrary shell commands. The vulnerability is present in systems using the '%u' substitution in some configuration file directives, such as 'Match exec'. […]
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 […]