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Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 11.0, an open-source implementation of WinAPI. The codebase has been frozen ahead of the expected release in late January. Compared to the Wine 10.20 release, 17 bug reports have been closed and 175 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the Wine Mono engine has been upgraded to version 10.4.0. Wine Mono is a distribution […]
Two weeks after the last global outage, the content delivery network Cloudflare, which handles about 20% of all global web traffic, was partially unavailable for 25 minutes yesterday. During the incident, about one-third of requests through Cloudflare were met with a blank page and error code 500. This time, the cause was a long-unnoticed issue in the code […]
A set of changes has been accepted into the codebase that will form the release of GNOME 50, implementing a configuration for managing the restoration of applications launched in the previous session. A switch has been added to the configurator to disable the mode that saves the list of running applications upon session termination and restores their windows in the subsequent session. The old […] has been removed from the gnome-session manager in May.
The release of the nftables 1.1.6 packet filter has been published, unifying the packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges (aimed at replacing iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables). Concurrently, the associated library libnftnl 1.3.1 has been released, providing a low-level API for interacting with the nf_tables subsystem. The nftables package includes packet filter components that operate in user space, while […]
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 10.1, which is based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and is fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted downloads are available for installation ISO images, sized 10 GB and 1.3 GB, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 10 offers unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]
Proxmox, known for developing Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway, has introduced the first stable release of a new distribution — Proxmox Datacenter Manager, which includes a user interface and toolkit for centralized management of multiple independent clusters based on Proxmox Virtual Environment. The server backend, command line utilities, and new web interface are written in Rust and distributed […]
The release of the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.66 has been announced, which fixes 5 vulnerabilities and includes several dozen changes. The addressed vulnerabilities (the first 2 have a moderate risk level, while the others are low): CVE-2025-66200 — the organization of running CGI scripts under another user in configurations with mod_userdir and suexec via manipulation of the 'RequestHeader' directive in the .htaccess file (if its use is allowed in .htaccess). CVE-2025-59775 — […]
Oracle has announced the release of Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 (Support Repository Update), which offers a series of significant changes and enhancements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes proposed in the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. Users can also take advantage of the free Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment), which is being developed using a continuous release model of new […]
Wiz has published the findings of an analysis of the Shai-Hulud 2 worm's activity, during which malicious releases of over 800 packages were published in the NPM repository, totaling more than 100 million downloads. Once the affected package is installed, the activated worm searches for confidential data, publishes new malicious releases (upon detecting a connection token to the NPM directory), and places in […]
The first release of the geoip project has taken place, implementing a service for obtaining information about the location of IP addresses through a REST API. The project is aimed at simplifying the integration of GeoIP functionality into various applications, freeing developers from the need to manage database updates themselves and work with the MMDB format. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. It supports operation in Linux and macOS, […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.23 is now available, a minimalist distribution based on the Musl system library and BusyBox utilities. The distribution features enhanced security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection). OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its own package manager, apk, is used for package management. Alpine is used to create official Docker container images and […]
The developers of the MinIO project, which is developing a high-performance object storage compatible with the Amazon S3 API, have announced that the repository will be switched to maintenance mode. From now on, only critical vulnerability fixes will be included in the open codebase, while changes related to new features and bug fixes will remain in a closed repository, which serves as the basis for the commercial version. Users who need support or […]