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Simon Josefsson, who maintains 170 packages in Debian, introduced the Debian Libre Live Images project, providing Debian GNU/Linux builds free from non-free components, such as firmware blobs. In accordance with the decision made in 2022, the official Debian ISO images now include both free firmwares from the main repository and proprietary firmwares distributed through the repository […]
The Marathon OS project has been launched, developing a Linux distribution for mobile devices that combines the work done in the PostmarketOS distribution with the Marathon Shell graphical interface. The user environment is built using Qt and QML, and is based on a proprietary composite server utilizing the Wayland protocol, mimicking the gesture control model of the BlackBerry 10 operating system. The project's code is written in C++ and […]
The release of OmniOS Community Edition r151056 has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues to advance the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and core set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used for building scalable web systems, virtualization […]
The release of the browser engine Servo 0.0.2 and its accompanying demo browser ServoShell, both written in Rust, has been announced. Functionally, this release is similar to the nightly build from November 14, which underwent additional manual testing. Ready-to-use builds are provided for Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. The engine was initially developed by Mozilla, but later came under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. […]
The developers of the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index) have implemented an additional verification step during login, requiring email confirmation for any operation when connecting from a device or browser that has not previously logged in. This confirmation is required in addition to the existing two-factor authentication, which requires entering a one-time code (TOTP — Time-based One-Time Password) alongside the usual credentials. When using […]
The November Android security bulletin reveals information about the vulnerability CVE-2025-48593 in the Bluetooth subsystem, affecting Android versions 13 to 16. The vulnerability has been assigned a critical severity level (9.8 out of 10) as it can lead to remote code execution when processing specially crafted Bluetooth packets. Google has not yet disclosed detailed information about the vulnerability, but independent researchers assert […]
The second corrective update for Debian 13 has been released, incorporating accumulated package updates and installer fixes. The release includes 123 updates addressing stability issues and 55 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.2 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as 7zip, ansible-core, dkms, epiphany-browser, evolution, fonts-noto-color-emoji, mailmindr, nextcloud-desktop, openssl, […]
The experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.19 has been published. Since the release of 10.18, 34 bug reports have been closed, and 439 changes made. The most significant changes include: Support for the Reparse Point mechanism, which allows additional data identifiable through tags to be attached to files and directories. Flags have been added for reading, creating, and deleting Reparse objects […]
Red Hat has announced the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 distribution, as well as an update to the previous branch — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7. Ready installation images are available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (public ISO images of CentOS Stream 10 and free RHEL developer builds can be used for functionality evaluation). The release is formed for x86_64 architectures, […]
Google has summarized the use of Rust components in the Android platform. The strategy for integrating safe development methods for new code into Android has proven successful. In 2025, for the first time, the proportion of vulnerabilities caused by memory handling errors was less than 20% of the total number of vulnerabilities. In comparison, in 2024, this figure was 24% in Android, […]
Valve has released version 10.0-3 of the Proton project, based on Wine's codebase and aimed at enabling the execution of gaming applications built for Windows on Linux, as listed in the Steam catalog. Release 10.0-3 is noted as the first stable release of the 10.0 branch (previous updates in this branch were marked as test versions). The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton […]
After six months of development, version 4.2 of the CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) toolkit has been released, designed for saving and restoring processes in user space. The toolkit allows you to save the state of one or a group of processes and then resume operation from the saved position, even after a system reboot or on another server without interrupting already established network connections. The code […]
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