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The Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" distribution has been released, classified as an interim release with updates produced over a 9-month period. Installable images are available for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin (the edition for China), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. Key changes include: the desktop environment has been updated to GNOME 49. […]
Meta* has introduced a toolkit for data compression and decompression called OpenZL, which demonstrates higher compression levels and speed compared to Zstd and XZ formats. OpenZL is designed for efficiently compressing structured datasets, such as those used in machine learning, as well as storage containing fields with various repeating types of information. The OpenZL code is written in C/C++ and is open-source […]
After a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the network analyzer Wireshark 4.6 has been published. The program supports over a thousand network protocols and several dozen traffic capture formats. It provides a graphical interface for creating filters, capturing traffic, analyzing saved dumps, and inspecting packets. Advanced features include reassembling packet order, extracting and saving the contents of files transmitted using […]
An Amazon employee has introduced the Servo GTK library, designed for embedding the Servo web engine into applications that use GTK4. The library implements a GTK widget, which allows the Servo Webview to render web content. Notable features include rendering acceleration support via OpenGL and the ability to handle events asynchronously. The project is written in Rust and distributed under the […]
Researchers from Wiz have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2025-49844) in the Redis database system that allows for remote code execution (RCE) on the server. The issue has been assigned the highest danger level (CVSS score 10 out of 10); to exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must be able to send requests to the Redis database that allows executing user-defined Lua scripts. In addition to publicly available Redis instances that provide access without authentication, […]
The release of the T2 SDE 25.10 meta-distribution has been published, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining up-to-date package versions. Among popular distributions built on the T2 system is Puppy Linux. The project offers 36 bootable ISO images with a minimal graphical environment in versions with Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. Builds for current architectures are prepared with […]
After more than a year of development, Cisco has released version 1.5.0 of the free antivirus package ClamAV. The project was taken over by Cisco in 2013 following the acquisition of Sourcefire, the company developing ClamAV and Snort. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Version 1.5.0 is classified as a regular (non-LTS) release, with updates published for at least 4 months after its release […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.29.2 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The parallel stable branch 1.28.x only receives critical bug fixes and vulnerability patches. Subsequently, stable branch 1.30 will be formed based on the main branch 1.29.x. The project is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In this new release: Added […]
Five former maintainers of the RubyGems.org, RubyGems, and Bundler projects, including the owner of the Bundler trademark, have announced the creation of an alternative project — Gem Cooperative, which is community-controlled and uses an open governance model inspired by Homebrew. At this stage, the project has launched the gem-server gem.coop, containing all packages from the RubyGems.org catalog and synchronized with it. Full […]
Andreas Kling announced that the Ladybird browser successfully passed 90% of the tests from the web-platform-tests suite, which determine compatibility with the benchmark web platform. According to Apple's requirements, this milestone is sufficient to be considered an alternative browser engine for iOS. Ladybird successfully passed 1,861,180 checks out of 2,033,861. For comparison, Chromium 139 passed 1,996,034 checks, Firefox 143 - 1,942,510, Safari 26.0 […]
The release of the GIMP 3.0.6 graphic editor has been announced. Pre-built versions are available for Linux (AppImage and Flatpak for x86 and ARM64 architectures), macOS, and Windows. The main focus in preparing this new version was on fixing bugs and regressive changes. New functionality is being developed in the GIMP 3.1 branch, based on which a stable release of GIMP 3.2 with support for link layers will be formed […]
Phoronix has published a warning about the deprecation of 12 packages that have been left without maintainers following staff reductions at Intel and the cessation of the Clear Linux project. The article does not provide links to sources, but it seems the information was obtained from an August report by the Debian QA Group without clarification of the current status. The current list of deprecated packages […]