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After a year of development, PHP 8.2 has been released. The new release includes a series of new features, as well as several compatibility-breaking changes. Key improvements in PHP 8.2 include: Added the ability to mark a class as read-only. Properties in such classes can only be set once, after which they will no longer be modifiable. Previously, read-only […]
The Blender Foundation has released Blender 3.4, a free 3D modeling package suitable for a variety of tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, computer game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready-to-use builds are available for Linux, Windows и macOS. At the same time, a corrective release of Blender 3.3.2 was created in the […]
A significant release of the specialized browser Tor Browser 12.0 has been formed, in which the transition to the ESR branch of Firefox 102 has been made. The browser is focused on providing anonymity, security and privacy, all traffic is redirected only through the Tor network. It is impossible to contact directly through the regular network connection of the current system, which does not allow tracking the real IP address of the user (in the case of a browser hack, attackers can […]
The Vieb 9.4 web browser has been released. It's optimized for keyboard navigation, using the same operating principles and key combinations as the Vim text editor (for example, entering insert mode is required to enter text in a form). The code is written in JavaScript and licensed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is built on the Electron platform, and Chromium serves as the web engine. Ready-to-use builds […]
Tesla Motors has released the liblithium cryptographic library, whose key design goals include compactness, low resource consumption, and portability. The library is designed from the ground up to run on both standard CPUs and DSP chips and microcontrollers, and is suitable for use in constrained environments and in code called early in the boot process to verify digital signatures […]
Inkscape, a free vector graphics editor, is now available with version 1.2.2. The editor offers flexible drawing tools and supports reading and saving images in SVG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, WMF, EMF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript, and PNG formats. Inkscape's ready-to-use builds are ready for Linux (AppImage, Snap, Flatpak), macOS и WindowsIn preparing the new version, the main focus was on […]
At a meeting of the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical development of the Fedora distribution Linux, a proposal to begin formation in Fedora has been approved Linux 38 mobile builds, all shipped with the Phosh shell. The Phosh shell is based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library, uses the Phoc compositing server running on Wayland, and uses its own on-screen keyboard, Squeekboard. […]
The developers of the gccrs (GCC Rust) project have published the fourth edition of patches implementing the Rust compiler frontend for GCC. The new edition addresses nearly all of the concerns raised during the code review process, and the patches meet all technical requirements for code being added to GCC. Richard Biener, one of the GCC maintainers, noted that the code now […]
Amazon has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the ecosystem. Linux from patent claims. By joining OIN, the company demonstrated its commitment to the ideas of collaborative innovation and non-aggressive patent management. Amazon believes Linux and open source software are key drivers of innovation at the company. It is noted that Amazon's accession to OIN is intended to strengthen […]
After two and a half years of development, a major release of the ProFTPD 1.3.8 FTP server has been released. Its strengths include extensibility and functionality, while its weaknesses include the periodic discovery of dangerous vulnerabilities. A maintenance release, ProFTPD 1.3.7f, is also available, which will be the last in the ProFTPD 1.3.7 series. Key new features in ProFTPD 1.3.8 include: Support for the CSID (Client/Server ID) FTP command has been implemented, which can be used to send information […]
The issue has been published Linux- the Armbian 22.11 distribution, which provides a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. Package databases are used to create builds. Debian [...]
FreeBSD 12.4 has been released. Installation images are available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, and armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.4 will be the final update to the 12.x branch, which will be maintained until December 31, 2023. A FreeBSD update will be prepared this spring […]