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Nick Wellnhofer announced his departure from the position of maintainer of the libxml2 library. Nick has been involved in the development of libxml2 since 2016 and was added to the group of maintainers in 2022, remaining practically the only active developer since then. After Nick's departure, the project is left without maintenance. The libxml2 library is used in operating systems and products of Apple companies […]
Approximately 600 GB of data related to the operation of the Great Firewall of China (GFW) has been released. The GFW is used for filtering internet traffic in the PRC. The archive contains around 500 GB of rpm packages from a closed repository repo.geedge.net, various documentation on its operation and structure, as well as compressed (zstd) archives containing the contents of a git repository with code (63 GB, including […]
The release of Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 has been announced, built on components from the Rust-VMM project, developed with the participation of Intel, Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Red Hat. Rust-VMM is written in Rust and allows for the creation of hypervisors tailored to specific tasks. Cloud Hypervisor is one such hypervisor, providing a high-level virtual machine monitor (VMM) that operates atop KVM or MSHV and […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of PortableGL 0.99 has been prepared, advancing the software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, written entirely in C. Theoretically, PortableGL can be used in any applications that accept a texture or framebuffer as input. The code is formatted as a single header file and is distributed under the MIT license. The project has defined goals such as portability, […]
TIOBE Software has published the September ranking of programming languages popularity. This release is notable for the significant rise in popularity of the Perl language, which climbed from 27th to 10th place in the ranking over the year. In February, the popularity index of Perl was 0.49%, after which it began to rise to 0.7% in March, 0.9% in April, 1.2% in May, 1.47% in June, 1.76% in July, and […]
The GNOME project has released version 1.8 of the Libadwaita library, which includes a set of components for styling user interfaces in accordance with GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines). The library contains ready-made widgets and objects for building applications that comply with the overall GNOME style, and its interface can adapt to screens of any size. The library code is written in C and is distributed under […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs filesystem, has announced the transition to distributing Bcachefs using the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) toolkit, where the module is supplied in source form and built on the user's system, immediately after the package is installed. After updating the Linux kernel, the module is automatically rebuilt in the system. The DKMS distribution will allow for decoupling from each update […]
The release of Q4OS 6.1, based on the Debian package base and shipped with the KDE Plasma and Trinity desktops (continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x codebase), has been announced. Both user environments can coexist simultaneously in a single system, allowing users to switch between them. The distribution is positioned as being light on hardware resources while offering a classic desktop layout. The size of the bootable […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.15, has been announced. Since the release of 10.14, 16 bug reports have been closed and 277 changes made. The most significant changes include: Partial support for the ntsync driver has been added, which significantly increases the performance of Windows games run through Wine. The driver has been part of the Linux kernel since release 6.14 and implements a character device […]
After six months of development, the release of Samba 4.23.0 has been presented, continuing the Samba 4 branch with a full implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service compatible with the Windows 2008 implementation, capable of serving all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server implementation, printing services, and server […]
According to The Register, Oracle has laid off 70 employees involved in the development of the MySQL database, including several experienced developers. Michael 'Monty' Widenius, co-founder of MySQL and creator of the MariaDB project, stated that it pains him to hear about the mass layoffs at MySQL, and while he is not surprised by Oracle's actions, he is still […]
The Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization offering a neutral and independent platform for developing around 400 open-source products, has unveiled a new logo, revamped the design of the apache.org website, and announced a shift to using the brand ASF instead of the full name 'Apache Software Foundation.' The new logo depicts […] instead of the feather, which has been a symbol of Apache projects since 1997.