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Gentoo creates mirrors on Codeberg

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Gentoo has created a mirror of its ebuild repository on Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub. There are plans to move all other repositories as well. Pull requests are accepted, and forking is not required. The main repository remains on Gentoo's own servers, and repositories on GitHub are not being deleted. Codeberg uses the open-source engine Forgejo, is supported by a non-profit organization, and is located in Berlin, Germany. The desire to migrate from GitHub is explained […]

The MinIO project has transitioned its Git repository to an archive mode. In response, the community has created a fork.

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Developers of MinIO, a high-performance object storage compatible with Amazon S3 with over a billion downloads on Docker Hub, have transitioned the project's Git repository to an archived mode, allowing read-only access. The last change in the repository was the addition of a note about discontinuing maintenance and a recommendation to switch to the proprietary MinIO AIStor product. Archiving has become the final step in a series of events that have been perceived by the community […]

Evaluation of the reliability of passwords generated by large language models

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The results of the analysis of password reliability generated by large language models and AI assistants have been presented. Researchers asked the models Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to generate a secure 16-character password, and in all cases, they received results that, at first glance, met all the requirements for secure passwords and were recognized by password quality-checking utilities as reliable. The passwords included symbols in different cases and special characters […]

New versions of Wine 11.3, Wine-staging 11.3, Wine Mono 11.0, and Vkd3d 1.19

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.3 has been published. Since the release of 11.2, 30 bug reports have been closed, and 223 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The Wine Mono engine has been updated to version 11.0.0. Wine Mono is a distribution of the Mono Framework intended for use in Wine instead of the proprietary .NET Framework component. The built-in Vkd3d package […]

Release of Composite Server Weston 15.0

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After nine months of development, a stable release of Composite Server Weston 15.0 has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol support in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, and televisions […]

Release of Packet Filter Iptables 1.8.12

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After a year and a half of development, the classic toolkit for managing the packet filter iptables 1.8.12 has been released, with recent focus on components for maintaining backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables and ebtables, but translating the received rules into nftables bytecode. The original iptables suite of programs, including ip6tables, […]

Twenty-Eighth Version of Open Game 0 A.D.

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After a year of development, the twenty-eighth release of the free game 0 A.D. has been presented, featuring a real-time strategy style similar to the Age of Empires series. This is the first release marked without the 'Alpha' label and is designated as '0 A.D. Release 28'. The alpha label was previously used because not all initially planned features were implemented. However, the existing functionality has been refined and […]

The Developer io_uring Discovered an Issue in QEMU That Slowed Down fdmon by 50-80 Times

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Jens Axboe, the creator of io_uring and the I/O schedulers CFQ, Deadline, and Noop, has proposed a patch for inclusion in the QEMU emulator's codebase that reduces latency when using fdmon (file descriptor monitoring) in 'aio=io_uring' mode while the system is in an idle state by 50-80 times. The issue arose due to the conversion of the ppoll() operation into a sleep state with a timeout of 499 […]

Pipewire 1.6.0

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The release of the multimedia server pipewire 1.6.0 has been published. This new version is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.4.x branch. Key changes include the addition of an LDAC decoder (used in Bluetooth); SpanDSP is now used to hide Bluetooth packet loss; PODs are now safely parsed and assembled in shared memory; node commands and events can now include additional user data; support for changing the maximum […]

End of support for Firefox 115 ESR branch, capable of running on Windows 7 and 8

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Mozilla has updated the support information page for Firefox on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 platforms, now indicating that the final release of the ESR branch Firefox 115 will be published on February 24, after which updates will no longer be issued. At the same time, a notice about the end of the support cycle for Firefox 115 has been added to the ESR update release schedule page. Initially, the deadline […]

Release of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2

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Updates for Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 firmware, based on Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 package bases, have been presented. The firmware is developed by the UBports project, which took over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical distanced itself from it. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, renamed to Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch update […]

The multimedia server PipeWire 1.6.0 has been released

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After nearly a year of development, a new stable branch of the multimedia server PipeWire 1.6.0 has been established, replacing the PulseAudio sound server and distinguished by the addition of tools for handling video streams, the capability for low-latency audio processing, and a new security model for managing access at the level of individual devices and streams. The project is applied by default in Fedora Linux, […]

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