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Timur Kristóf, one of Valve's subcontractors, has presented plans to enhance support for AMD graphics cards of the GCN 1.0 "Southern Island" and 1.1 "Sea Islands" families in Linux. Last year, the AMDGPU driver was brought to parity with the Radeon driver for GCN 1.x graphics card families and activated by default in the Linux kernel codebase […]
After a year of development, the release of the Privoxy 4.1.0 proxy server has been published, designed to create personal web content filters. With Privoxy, users can cut out ad inserts, discard tracking cookies, remove pop-ups, block loading of external JavaScript code, and make necessary arbitrary changes to web pages. Privoxy supports installation on both local systems of individual users and on servers to create centralized […]
Andreas Tille, the project leader of Debian, published a report mentioning issues within the Data Protection Team — three representatives working in this team simultaneously resigned. The reason for their departure is attributed to a lack of opportunity and enthusiasm to continue working. The team is now without members, and the project is urgently seeking volunteers to replace them. The Data […]
The first experimental release of the MiDesktop project has been presented, which develops a fork of the KDE desktop environment 1.1.2, adapted for use in modern systems. The codebase of KDE 1 has been ported to the Qt 2 framework to address issues and licensing constraints specific to the Qt 1 branch. In the Osiris project, an updated fork of Qt 2.3.2 is being developed by the same developers. The MiDesktop code is distributed under […]
The release of GNU Wget2 2.2.1 is now available, featuring a complete rewrite of the automated recursive content downloading program GNU Wget. Wget2 offers a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows access to available functionality through the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, enables the downloading of only changed data, and can save data with […]
The release of PCSX2 2.6.0 has taken place, which develops the emulator for the PlayStation 2 console. The emulator allows standard PCs to run games originally designed for PlayStation 2, while offering enhanced features such as screen resolution scaling, creating virtual and shared memory cards, saving states, applying patches to games, and recording gameplay videos. CPU emulation […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 26.0, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, has been presented. The distribution is notable for its simplified, user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers. Manjaro is available as live versions with graphical environments KDE (5.4 GB), GNOME (5.2 GB), and Xfce (5.1 GB), formed […]
A summary of the most significant and noteworthy events of 2025 related to open projects and information security: Conflicts: The dispute over the domain putty.org; The conflict between NixOS moderators and the managing council; The intention to exclude Bcachefs from the Linux kernel; Python's withdrawal from the grant; Automattic's departure from WordPress development; A protest by the Japanese Mozilla Support community; The maintainer of libxml2 stepped back from special treatment for removing […]
The release of Firejail 0.9.78 has been published, developing a system for the isolated execution of graphical, console, and server applications, which minimizes the risk of compromising the main system when running untrusted or potentially vulnerable programs. The program is written in C, is distributed under the GPLv2 license, and can run on any Linux distribution with a kernel version higher than 3.0. Ready packages of Firejail have been prepared […]
The release of the Box64 0.4.0 emulator, designed to run Linux programs compiled for the x86_64 architecture on hardware with ARM64, RISC-V, and Loongarch64 processors, has been published. The project focuses heavily on enabling the launch of gaming applications and provides the ability to run Windows builds through Wine and Proton. The project's source code is written in C and released under the MIT license. A key feature of the project is the use of hybrid […]
In the RustFS project, which develops an S3-compatible distributed object storage system written in Rust, a vulnerability (CVE-2025-68926) has been discovered, resembling a backdoor. The issue is caused by a hardcoded access token in the code that allows connection to a network service via the gRPC protocol by setting the "authorization" header to "rustfs rpc". The token was present in both the server and client code. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level […]
At the 39C3 conference (Chaos Communication Congress), a report was presented with the results of research on the security of the FreeBSD jail mechanism. The authors of the study managed to escape the Jail and compromise the host, provided that the attacker has root privileges inside the Jail. Code for 5 prototype exploits that utilize vulnerabilities in ipfilter, dummynet, carp, and ipfw to escape from the Jail has been published on GitHub, revealing […]