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The long-awaited (for the author of the news) release of the world's most famous system manager, GNU/Linux (and even a little beyond) — systemd. In this release: udev tags are now per-device, rather than per-device event—this breaks backwards compatibility, but only to properly handle the backwards-compatibility break introduced back in […]
Version 0.9.2 of the libmdbx library has been released, implementing an ultra-fast compact embedded key-value engine. libmdbx is a deep reworking of the legendary LMDB DBMS and, according to the developers, is superior to its predecessor in reliability, range of capabilities and performance. Major innovations, improvements and fixes: Bindings are available for Nim (by Jens Alfke, architect at Couchbase) and Rust (by Clément Renault, founder of MeiliSearch). Package available for […]
Good afternoon! I present to your attention the book "Linux API. A Comprehensive Guide" (translation of the book The Linux Programming Interface). You can order it on the publisher's website, and if you use the promo code LinuxAPI, then get a 30% discount. Excerpt from the book for review: Sockets: Server Architecture In this chapter, we discuss the basics of designing iterative and parallel servers, and also look at a special daemon […]
All smartphones and tablets produced after January 1 and sold in Russia must be pre-installed with 16 domestic applications, three on computers, and four on Smart TVs. This requirement was approved by the Russian government. The published document states that from January 1, 2021, manufacturers of smartphones, tablets and other “wireless communications equipment […] will be required to pre-install Russian software.
Quietly and unnoticed, a mysterious group of unidentified persons is preparing for release a security-oriented motherboard based on the Elbrus-8SV processor. Board characteristics: Form factor: Mini-ITX Processor: MCST Elbrus-8SV 8-cores @ 1.5 GHz VLIW (fully compatible with LGA3647 for radiator mounting) South bridge: MCST KPI-2 Memory: 8 GB or 32 GB (2x [4 +1] 8 Gbit/32 Gbit DDR4 DRAM […]
An update has been released for dotenv-linter, a useful tool for checking and fixing errors in .env files (Docker environment variable files). Many programmers try to adhere to the Twelve Factors manifesto when developing software. This approach allows you to avoid a large number of problems associated with the deployment of applications and their further support. One of the principles of this manifesto states that all settings should be stored in […]
Ten months after the previous release, mpv 0.33 was released. With this release, building the project is only possible on Python 3. Numerous changes and fixes have been made to the player, including: New features: Subtitle filtering by regular expression; HiDPI support on Windows; Exclusive fullscreen support on d3d11; Ability to use sixel to play video in […]
November 21 marked 25 years since the first announcement of the free graphics editor GIMP. The project grew out of course work by two Berkeley students, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. Both authors were interested in computer graphics and were dissatisfied with the level of imaging applications on UNIX. Initially, the Motif library was used for the program interface. But while working on [...]
A new version of Ardor, a free digital audio recording station, has been released. The main innovation is support for the VST3 plugin API in all operating systems where the program runs. Additionally, extensions from PreSonus are supported. They allow you to pass information to the plugin about interface scaling on high-density screens, embed a miniature version of the plugin interface into the host, etc. Also among the changes: accelerated […]
Facebook has become a Corporate Patron of the Blender Foundation, which develops the free 3D modeling and animation package Blender. Starting in the fourth quarter of 2020, money will begin flowing into the Blender Foundation. Facebook is developing its AR (augmented reality) toolkit with integration into Blender through a separately downloadable add-on. Previously, the fund's sponsors included companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Unity, Epic, […]
After five years of development, gmusicbrowser-1.1.16 was released. gmusicbrowser is an audio player and music collection manager written in perl using the gtk+ toolkit. Uses gstreamer, mplayer or mpv backend. Provides highly customizable user interface templates. Supports tag editing, renaming, searching, notifications, etc. In the new version: Support for Gtk+3 interface. Opus format support. Cover sources updated […]
The Scala programming language continues its development within the 2.13 branch. The next release of Scala 2.13.4 includes several interesting innovations, including: experimental support for libraries written in Scala 3; Improved checking for completeness (exhaustivity) of branches when matching with a pattern. Now this check also works when using guard expressions and custom extractors; changed the behavior of ExecutionContext by […]