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Christian Hergert, the author of the GNOME Builder integrated development environment, the Ptyxis terminal emulator, and the GNOME Text Editor, has announced that due to relocating from the USA to France and changing life priorities, he will no longer be able to dedicate the necessary attention to GNOME development. Christian was almost the sole active maintainer for 16 GNOME modules and over forty hours […]
The release of the mobile platform LineageOS 23.2 is now available, continuing the development of the codebase based on Android 16. The LineageOS 23.2 branch has reached feature and stability parity with the 23.0 branch and is deemed ready for release. Builds have been prepared for 148 device models. LineageOS can also be run in the Android Emulator, in QEMU, and in the Android Studio environment. Additionally, provided […]
On January 31, after a year of development, a new release of ScummVM was made — a collection of rewritten game engines originally designed to run games from LucasArts using the SCUMM system. Thanks to its thoughtful architecture, ScummVM also supports many non-SCUMM games from companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft, for which custom resource interaction interfaces have been developed. According to the developer, this is the largest release […]
Version 1.21.0 of the highly precise console scientific calculator Numbat, written in Rust and distributed under the MIT and/or Apache 2.0 licenses, has been released. Key features of Numbat include full support for physical dimensions and units of measurement; a statically typed programming language for scientific computing; autocompletion of function names, units of measurement, and variables; input history search; and a large set of built-in functions and constants: […]
Vyacheslav Dubeyko from IBM initiated a discussion on the kernel developers' mailing list regarding the use of machine learning models in the Linux kernel and proposed a set of patches for testing that includes a library for integrating ML models into the kernel along with an example of a symbolic driver utilizing the library. Integrating ML models into the kernel could enhance how subsystems operate based on the data being processed, […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.2 — has been published. Since the release of 11.1, 32 bug reports have been closed and 238 changes made. The most significant updates include optimization of PDB file loading in DbgHelp, support for running constructors and destructors in MSVC added to the CRT (C runtime), and simplified generation of versioned resources from variables in the makefile. The libpng 1.6.54 libraries have also been updated, […]
The release of version 9.5.0 of the libzim library, designed for working with ZIM format files, has been announced. The library is developed and sponsored by the Kiwix project. ZIM is a format intended for offline storage of information obtained from the Internet in a single file. A ZIM file contains logically related HTML pages (and sometimes entire website images) in compressed form with functioning hyperlinks, images, audio […]
On January 31, after a year and a half of continuous development, version 1.0 of the lightweight and portable cross-platform vector graphics library ThorVG, intended for visualizing vector scenes and animations, has been released. It supports file loading in Lottie and SVG Tiny 1.2 formats (the list of implemented SVG Tiny features is available on the project's Wiki). The library provides convenient APIs for importing, creating, and displaying vector graphics, as well as […]
Camilla Moraes, a product manager at GitHub, initiated a discussion about adding a feature to GitHub for automatically blocking spam pull requests generated by AI assistants that are submitted without manual review and do not meet quality standards. Such changes create additional burden on maintainers, who have to spend time sifting through useless code. As a short-term solution to the problem, […]
Microsoft has revised the security guidelines for Windows 11. Now, administrator rights are required to access the local storage settings page, a key section for managing disk space, cleanup tools, and system files. On paper, this change seems minor, but it may confuse users who will encounter a previously accessible section that now necessitates elevated permissions. Microsoft plans […]
Niels Möller I'm pleased to announce the major new release of GNU Nettle, a low-level cryptographic functions library. This release includes several API changes, some of which are quite significant, as well as the removal of deprecated functions. There is one notable new feature: support for SLH-DSA signatures (a stateful hash-based digital signature algorithm). This is a major new release. It includes […]
The ninth release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment has been published, developed from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine some innovative ideas that have not been seen before in user environments with traditional elements such as a plugin-supported panel, application menu, and a desktop where shortcuts can be placed. Work is currently focused on launching in environments on […]