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After six months of development, the GNU project has introduced the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 1.1. The platform is considered ready for the implementation of working payment services and can already be legally applied for selling goods in Switzerland. Enterprises wishing to set up sales payments using GNU Taler only need to have an account with any Swiss bank and launch the backend provided by the platform for organizing […]
The release of the Tribblix 38 distribution has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues the evolution of the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and the basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. The project aims to maintain the classic retro style of Solaris while using modern versions of software. The kernel and command-line tools are borrowed from Illumos, while everything else is rebuilt using a custom build system for distribution […]
After nearly two years since the last update, a corrective release of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16 office suite has been published, addressing 7 vulnerabilities and fixing several bugs. Ready packages have been prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Fixed vulnerabilities include: CVE-2025-64406 — a buffer overflow when importing specially crafted CSV format files. This vulnerability may potentially lead to overwriting […]
The release of the Firefox 145 web browser has occurred, along with updates to previous Long Term Support branches — 140.5.0 and 115.30.0. The Firefox 146 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for December 9. Key innovations in Firefox 145 (1, 2, 3): Support for 32-bit Linux systems has been discontinued. It is noted that maintaining Firefox on 32-bit platforms is becoming increasingly challenging […]
The release of the D7VK 0.3 project has been published, which develops the implementation of the Direct3D 7 graphical API proposed by Microsoft in 1999. The implementation works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows running retro games tied to the Direct3D 7 API on Linux using Wine. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Zlib license. As a basis for […]
Security researchers from Microsoft have developed a side-channel attack technique called Whisper Leak, which allows for the classification of request topics to services based on large language models through passive analysis of encrypted traffic transmitted over a TLS connection. Information regarding the size of network packets and the delays between their transmissions was sufficient to determine the topics of requests to AI chatbots with over 98% accuracy. […]
The release of Easyeffects 8.0.0 (previously known as PulseEffects) has been published, expanding the collection of plugins for PipeWire, a system service and graphical interface with an equalizer, spectrum analyzer, and various sound effects, such as limiting maximum volume, reducing dynamic range, leveling volume, filtering certain frequencies, and eliminating noise. Effects can be applied specifically to individual applications. The project code is written […]
The release of the lightweight distro MX Linux 25, created through the collaboration of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects, has been published. This release is based on a Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and custom tools for configuring and deploying the system. 64-bit builds (x86_64) are available for download […]
The release of project uutils coreutils 0.4.0 (Rust Coreutils) has been published, developing an analog to the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on platforms like Windows, Redox […]
The release of the smolBSD toolkit has been published, allowing the creation of specialized minimalist NetBSD builds that include only the necessary set of system components and a fast-booting netbsd-MICROVM kernel. One of the uses of smolBSD is to create trimmed system environments (micro VMs) for running individual server applications in virtual machines. The size of the created base environment is about 10 MB. Launching a service in a new virtual machine using such […]
The composite server Hyprland 0.52, which utilizes the Wayland protocol, is now available. The project is focused on a tiling window layout but also supports classic free placement of windows, grouping windows in tab form, a pseudomosaic mode, and full-screen window expansion. The code is written in C++ and released under the BSD license. It offers capabilities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window borders, blurring […]
Stéphane Graber, the leader of the Linux Containers project, one of the creators of the LXC toolkit, a member of the Ubuntu technical advisory board, and a participant in the teams responsible for Ubuntu releases, has introduced a new Linux distribution called IncusOS. IncusOS provides an atomically updatable system image for server creation, with centralized management via the Incus toolkit (a fork of LXD). The distribution is being developed under the auspices of the Linux […]