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Alpha Testing of FreeBSD 15 Has Started

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The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 has been prepared. Installation builds have been created for amd64, powerpc64le, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. The release is scheduled for December 2. Upgrading to the 15.0-ALPHA1 branch from previous releases using the freebsd-update utility has not yet been implemented. Starting from the FreeBSD 15 branch, the support time for significant branches after the formation of the first release (15.0) has been reduced from 5 to 4 years, and […]

Release of FreeType Font Engine 2.14

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The release of FreeType 2.14.0 has been announced, a modular font engine providing a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data in various vector and raster formats. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like FreeType license. Among the changes: The TrueType instruction interpreter has been optimized, now loading glyphs 15% faster. The processing of variable fonts has been accelerated. On modern 64-bit […]

Release of Armbian 25.8 and DietPi 9.16, distributions for single-board computers

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The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 25.8 has been published, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models including Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard with processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. To build the assemblies […]

Release of uutils 0.2.0, a Rust version of GNU Coreutils

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The release of the uutils coreutils 0.2.0 project (Rust Coreutils), which develops an alternative implementation of the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been published. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project aims to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among other things capable of running on Windows, Redox […]

The first alpha release of the KDE Linux distribution, developed by the KDE project.

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The KDE project has introduced the first alpha release of its own KDE Linux distribution, which is positioned as a reference implementation of a Linux distribution for the desktop and KDE applications, optimally integrated with KDE technologies and developed directly by KDE developers without intermediaries. System images (5 GB) are available for installation to create bootable USB drives that operate in Live mode. The distribution is based on the Arch Linux package base but is designed […]

New versions Debian 13.1 and 12.12

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The first corrective update for Debian 13 has been formed, which includes package updates released in the month since the new branch launch and addresses shortcomings in the installer. The release contains 72 updates that resolve stability issues and 16 updates that fix vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.1 include updates to the latest stable versions of the dpdk, galera packages, […]

During the GhostAction attack, 817 repositories on GitHub were compromised.

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Researchers from GitGuardian uncovered a massive attack on GitHub users, gaining control over 327 accounts and injecting a malicious handler into 817 repositories through GitHub Actions. The attack resulted in the leakage of 3,325 secrets used in continuous integration systems, transmitted via environment variables, including access tokens for PyPI, GitHub, NPM, DockerHub, and […]

Wine has integrated support for ntsync to enhance game performance.

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The Wine codebase, from which version 10.15 will be released in a week, now includes support for the ntsync driver, which significantly boosts the performance of Windows games running through Wine. The driver has been part of the Linux kernel since version 6.14 and implements the symbolic device /dev/ntsync and a set of synchronization primitives used in the Windows NT kernel. A substantial performance increase is achieved […]

Firefox will discontinue support for 32-bit Linux systems.

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Mozilla has announced that support for 32-bit Linux systems will end with the Firefox 145 release, scheduled for November 11, 2025. It has been noted that maintaining Firefox on 32-bit platforms is becoming increasingly complex and unreliable, especially as support for 32-bit builds has already been dropped in most Linux distributions. Users of 32-bit Linux distributions are encouraged to switch to 64-bit operating systems. For […]

Release of LKRG 1.0.0 to protect against exploits in the Linux kernel

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The Openwall project has released the LKRG 1.0.0 kernel module (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard), designed to verify the integrity of kernel structures and detect attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in the kernel. It is noted that the assignment of version number 1.0.0 marks the project reaching a mature state. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The module is suitable for protection against attacks exploiting already known vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, […]

Release of the Linux Mint 22.2 distribution.

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The release of Linux Mint 22.2 has been presented, continuing the development of the version based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but significantly differs in its approach to user interface organization and the selection of default applications. The Linux Mint developers provide a desktop environment that adheres to classical desktop organization standards, which is more familiar to users who do not accept new methods […]

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