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Pressure from French law enforcement agencies on GrapheneOS due to refusal to integrate a backdoor

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The GrapheneOS project, which develops an alternative open-source firmware based on Android aimed at enhancing security and ensuring privacy, is facing threats of prosecution from law enforcement in France due to their inability to analyze the contents of smartphones belonging to arrested criminals. In a statement released by representatives of GrapheneOS, they reported receiving threats from French law enforcement, warning of server seizures and the arrest of developers if the project refuses to cooperate […]

AlmaLinux 10.1 distribution is now available

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The release of AlmaLinux 10.1, synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and containing all changes proposed in this release, has been announced. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (927 MB), minimal (1.4 GB), and full images (8.3 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, and […]

Release of the memory testing system Memtest86+ 8.0

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The release of the Memtest86+ 8.0 program for testing RAM is now available. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be run directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a bootloader to perform a full check of the RAM. If issues are detected, the built-in Memtest86+ bad memory address map can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas using the memmap option. […]

Release of the free 3D modeling software Blender 5.0

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The Blender Foundation has released version 5.0 of the free 3D modeling software Blender, suitable for addressing various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The LTS branches Blender 4.2 and 4.5 continue to be supported, […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.46

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The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.46 has been published, which contains a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. In the new version: An experimental protocol xx-input-method has been added, allowing applications to implement text input methods for composite servers and generate the entered text, which can be used, for example, for creating virtual keyboards and IME layers […]

Release of StartWine-Launcher 412, a program for launching Windows applications and games on Linux

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The release of the Startwine-Launcher 412 application has been published, developed to run programs and games built for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of the StartWine-Launcher development was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes for beginners — sets of libraries and dependencies required for Windows applications to run on Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]

Stable release of the MariaDB 12.1 DBMS

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The release of the MariaDB database management system 12.1.2 has been published, marked as the first stable release of the 12.1 branch. The MariaDB 12.1 branch is classified as a rolling release, continuing the gradual enhancement of functionality and replacing the MariaDB 12.0 branch. Simultaneously, the release of MariaDB 12.2.1 has been issued, which holds the status of a release candidate. The MariaDB 12.1 branch will be maintained until the release of 12.2.2. The MariaDB project is developing a fork […]

The inclusion of a frontend for the Algol 68 language has been approved for GCC.

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The committee overseeing the development of the GCC compiler suite, known as the GCC Steering Committee, has approved the inclusion of the gcc-a68 frontend into the GCC codebase to support the Algol 68 programming language, developed in the late 1960s. After the integration of the frontend, the standard GCC toolchain will be able to compile programs in Algol 68 without the need to install the GNU Algol 68 compiler. In the experimental […]

Google is ready to reintroduce JPEG-XL format support in Chrome

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Rick Byers, one of the technical leads for the team developing Google Chrome, announced the readiness to include a high-performance, memory-safe decoder for the JPEG-XL image format in the Chromium engine. The main criterion for enabling the JPEG-XL decoder by default is the commitment to its long-term support. It is noted that this decision was made in connection with […]

The Agama 18 installer, used in SUSE and openSUSE, has been released.

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The developers of the openSUSE project have introduced the Agama 18 installer, notable for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama supports the use of various frontends, such as a frontend for installation management via a web interface. Agama has replaced the classic installation interface in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 and openSUSE Leap 16 releases. The code for the installer components is distributed under the GPLv2 license and is written in […]

In Tyr, the Rust-written driver for ARM Mali GPUs, compatibility with GNOME has been ensured.

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Collabora has announced progress in the development of the Tyr driver for the Linux kernel, written in Rust. The driver is designed to work with ARM Mali GPUs that utilize the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology, such as the Mali G310, G510, and G710. It is noted that Tyr has reached a level suitable for supporting the GNOME desktop environment and the Weston compositing server […]

The release of the nDPI 5.0 deep packet inspection system

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The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has released the nDPI 5.0 toolkit for deep packet inspection, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established after an unsuccessful attempt to transfer changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has remained unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for the identification of protocols used in traffic […]

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