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AlmaLinux certified to EAL1 security level

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Project AlmaLinux announced the certification of the distribution according to the Common Criteria EAL1 (Evaluation Assurance Level 1) security compliance program. The certificate was received for release AlmaLinux 9.2. EAL1 is the entry-level certification and demonstrates independent testing of the stated functionality. EAL1 confirms validation of correct operation and is intended for areas where security threats are not significant. Certification […]

The nginx project has released the JavaScript module njs 1.0.0.

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Njs 1.0.0, a module for integrating a JavaScript interpreter into the Nginx HTTP server, has been released. Njs allows the use of JavaScript scripts in configuration files to extend Nginx's capabilities. Scripts can be used to define advanced request processing logic, generate configuration, dynamically generate responses, modify requests/responses, or quickly create stubs to resolve issues in web applications. The project code is written in C […]

Release of the minimalistic set of system utilities Toybox 0.8.14

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Toybox 0.8.14, a system utility suite optimized for minimal system resource consumption, has been released. Similar to BusyBox, all utilities are available through a single executable file. The project is being developed by the former BusyBox maintainer, written in C, and distributed under the 0BSD license. Toybox aims to provide developers with a minimalist set of standard utilities without opening the source code […]

Firefox Update 152.0.2

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Firefox 152.0.2 is now available, a maintenance release that includes four fixes: Fixed a regression that caused some MP4 videos to malfunction. Resolved issues with incorrect display of localized section names in the Configurator. Fixed an issue with content inconsistencies in the new tab when the language was changed in the settings. Fixed a performance regression that caused simultaneous encryption and decryption operations to slow down […]

fooyin 0.11.0 and 0.11.1

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On June 22nd, fooyin, a music player focused on customization, released versions 0.11.0 and 0.11.1. It offers a variety of widgets for managing and playing your local music collection. The player is highly extensible thanks to a plugin system and includes FooScript, a scripting language for advanced widget customization. You can fully customize the user interface by switching to layout editing mode: […]

GNU nano 9.1 "met een hongerig paard aan ons been"

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On June 23rd, version 9.1 of the GNU nano command-line editor was released. Changes: The search viewport is now left-aligned where possible. The ability to read and write files in the old Mac format (that is, files that use a single carriage return as the end-of-line character) has been removed. The ^T switch has been removed […]

A one-line change in GCC resulted in a 12% speedup in one test and a 14% slowdown in another.

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An Intel engineer made a one-line change to the GCC compiler suite that increases the weight of branch mispredictions on x86 processors. The change improved the performance of generated code when passing the 544.nab_r benchmark by 12.7% with the "-O2 -mtune=graniterapids" optimizations enabled on Intel Granite Rapids/Xeon 6 CPUs and by 12.1% with the "-O2 -mtune=znver5" optimizations enabled on AMD Zen5 CPUs. The change […]

COSMIC 1.1.0 desktop environment is now available

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System76, a company developing LinuxPop!_OS, the distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.1.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.1.0 are available in Pop!_OS 24.04 and are expected to be available in Fedora, NixOS, and Arch soon. Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and licensed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries). COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]

Brave Origin

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Brave Origin, a minimalist version of Brave, has been released. Brave is a web browser, a fork of Chromium, maintained by Brave Software. The company was founded by Brendan Eich, the creator of the JavaScript programming language and former CTO of Mozilla Corporation. Brave is developed using the open-core model: the source code for Chromium patches is available on GitHub, but the binary packages are built privately and contain the following […]

ZXC 0.12.0

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On June 18th, after over a month of development, version 0.12.0 of the ZXC library and cross-platform command-line utility (github.com) was released. These tools implement high-performance, multi-threaded, asymmetric, lossless compression optimized for game assets, firmware, and application packages. The format is designed using the "write once, read many" (WORM) principle. Unlike codecs like LZ4, ZXC sacrifices compression speed for maximum […]

Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft are developing a mechanism to filter out web bots.

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Cloudflare, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Shopify have announced a joint project to develop and standardize the Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) protocol, which will separate real users and legitimate bots from spam traffic and uncontrolled AI bot activity while preserving user privacy. The new protocol is said to enable filtering bot traffic on websites using anonymous tokens, without […]

The first test release of the Xfwl4 composite server from the Xfce project

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After six months of development, the first preliminary release of the Xfwl4 compositing server, which uses the Wayland protocol, has been released. Xfwl4 is written in Rust using the Smithay library. The reason cited for creating the new compositing server was the unsuccessful attempt to implement simultaneous support for X11 and Wayland in the existing xfwm4 window manager codebase, which was originally designed with tight protocol integration in mind.

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