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A study of burnout factors in open source software developers

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Miranda Heath, a PhD student studying psychology at the University of Edinburgh, published the results of a study examining the causes of burnout among open source developers. Burnout is defined as a depletion of physical and mental energy, leading to a feeling of emptiness and characterized by a loss of motivation, a reduced ability to manage one's emotions, and a changed attitude toward work. Based on an analysis of 57 maintainer burnout cases, interviews with developers, and […]

Proxmox VE 9.1 Release, a Distribution for Organizing the Operation of Virtual Servers

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1, a specialized Linux-distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of replacing products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The installation ISO image size is 1.7 GB. Proxmox VE provides the tools for deploying a fully operational virtualization system […]

X Developersubuntu published a report on the hack of the X websiteubuntu.org

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Project X developersubuntu published a report on the hack of the X website that occurred a month agoubuntu.org, which resulted in a link to the "X" archive being placed on the distribution download page.ubuntu-Safe-Download.zip" with malicious code. Inside the archive, under the guise of an X installerubuntu an executable file for the platform was distributed Windows, which, when used, installed malware on the system that analyzed data in the clipboard and replaced […]

Xen hypervisor 4.21 release

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After eight months of development, the open-source Xen hypervisor, version 4.21, has been released. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, EPAM Systems, and AMD contributed to the new release. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Development is being carried out within the organization Linux Foundation. Key changes in Xen 4.21: Full device model support provided Linux stubdomain, […]

Release of Mesa 25.3, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan

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After three months of development, Mesa 25.3.0, the open source implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs, has been released. The new release tag was published in Git on November 15th, but the announcement on the website only appeared yesterday (the release has not yet been announced in the mailing list). The first release of the Mesa 25.3.0 branch is experimental—after the code has been fully stabilized, a final release will be […]

Cloudflare's hours-long outage was the result of improper error handling.

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Cloudflare has published a report on one of the largest incidents affecting its infrastructure, which yesterday left much of its content delivery network unavailable for over three hours. The outage occurred after a change to the structure of a database hosted in ClickHouse storage, which doubled the size of the file containing parameters for the anti-bot system. The database contained […]

The first release candidate of the graphics editor GIMP 3.2

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The first release candidate for GIMP 3.2 has been released. GIMP 3.2 adds support for Link layers and Vector layers, as well as features related to CMYK color model support and color management. With the release of this first release candidate, a line freeze has been implemented and new feature additions have been suspended for the GIMP 3.2 development cycle. […]

Git 2.52 source control release

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After three months of development, Git 2.52, the distributed source code management system, has been released. Git boasts high performance and provides non-linear development capabilities based on branching and merging. To ensure historical integrity and resilience to retroactive changes, it uses implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit, as well as digital signatures of individual tags by developers […]

Budgie 10.10 desktop environment preview, ported to Wayland

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A preview release of the Budgie 10.10-preview.1 desktop environment has been released, completely removing X11 support and leaving only the ability to run in Wayland-based environments. Simultaneously, similar test releases have been released for related components, such as the Budgie Session session manager (a fork of gnome-session), the Budgie Desktop View icon set, and the Budgie Control Center system configuration interface (a fork of […]

Published 66 edition of the rating of the most high-performance supercomputers

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The 66th edition of the World's 500 Most Powerful Computers ranking has been published. The most notable change in the ranking was China's move from second to fourth place in terms of supercomputers (Japan and Germany have moved up to second and third place, while China held first place three years ago). The top ten in the 66th edition of the ranking remained unchanged: the El Capitan cluster, launched at the Lawrence Livermore […]

The distribution has been published AlmaLinux 9.7

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Distribution release available AlmaLinux 9.7, synchronized with the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7, which contains all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images are available for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in bootable (1 GB), minimal (2 GB), and full (10 GB) versions. Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be released later. […]

CPython may make Rust a mandatory build dependency by version 3.17

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Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora, members of the Python core team, have published a preliminary proposal (Pre-PEP) to gradually add Rust support to the CPython codebase, the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Initially, Rust is proposed for optional standard library modules located in the Modules/ directory. Eventually, the Python version […]

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