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Release of Ventoy 1.1.07, a toolkit for booting arbitrary systems from USB drives

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The release of the Ventoy 1.1.07 toolkit, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems, has been published. The program allows booting an OS from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without requiring image extraction or reformatting of the drive. You simply copy the desired set of ISO images to a USB Flash with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will ensure the operation of the operating systems contained within the images. In […]

Vulnerabilities in tar-fs and 7-Zip allow writing files outside the base directory

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-48387) has been identified in the NPM package tar-fs, allowing files to be written to any part of the filesystem when unpacking a specially crafted tar archive, not limited to the directory where the unpacking occurs (subject to the current user's access rights). The vulnerability can also be exploited to overwrite existing files; for example, files such as '.ssh/id_rsa' or '.bashrc' may be overwritten to execute code in the system […]

Release of Pingora 0.6, a framework for creating network services

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Cloudflare has released version 0.6 of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services in Rust. A proxy built with Pingora has been used in Cloudflare's content delivery network for over two years, replacing nginx and handling over 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features […]

The Zulip 11 messaging platform has been released

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Zulip 11 has been introduced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and development teams. The project was originally developed by Zulip and became open-source after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. Client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]

Alternative X server packages XLibre have been proposed for testing in Fedora

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Kevin Kofler from the Fedora project, part of the working group maintaining KDE packages, announced the formation of XLibre X Server packages for Fedora, a fork of X.Org Server aimed at active development and a thorough cleanup of the X server. Packages with compatible xorg-x11-drv-* drivers have also been prepared for use with XLibre. The packages are published in the Fedora Copr repository […]

The FFmpeg project transitions to the Forgejo collaborative development platform

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The developers of the FFmpeg multimedia package, which includes a set of applications and a collection of libraries for working with various multimedia formats, have established a new infrastructure for collaborative coding based on the Forgejo open platform. The recommended method for submitting changes is now to send pull requests to the Git repository within the Forgejo infrastructure, instead of sending patches via email to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list. Previously […]

Release of Grml 2025.08, a Live distribution for system administrators

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The release of the Live distribution grml 2025.08 has been announced, offering a collection of tools for tasks encountered in system administration, such as data recovery after a failure and incident analysis. This distribution is based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and celebrated its twentieth anniversary last year. The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. The default command shell is Zsh. The full size is […]

Release of the home theater distribution LibreELEC 12.2

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The release of the LibreELEC 12.2 project has been announced, which develops a fork of the OpenELEC distribution for home theater creation. The user interface is based on the Kodi media center. Images are prepared for booting from USB drives or SD cards (32- and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 2/3/4/5, and various devices with Rockchip, Allwinner, and Amlogic chips). The build size for the x86_64 architecture is 270 MB. With the help of […]

Release of EasyOS 7.0, a distribution by the creator of Puppy Linux

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Barry Kauler, the founder of the Puppy Linux project, has released EasyOS 7.0, which combines Puppy Linux technologies with container isolation for running system components. The distribution is managed through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. The size of the boot image is 1 GB. Features of the distribution: Each application, as well as the desktop itself, can be run in separate containers for isolation […]

Release of Wine 10.13

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.13 has been published. Since the release of 10.12, 32 bug reports have been closed and 524 changes made. The most important changes include: A tab with Windows.Gaming.Input settings has been added to the joystick control panel. Support for ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 algorithms has been added to the Bcrypt library. All OpenGL call converters (thunk) for Wow64 mode (64-bit […]

Release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.2

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Oracle has released the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.2. Ready-to-use installation packages are available for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36-42, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows. Key changes: In the graphical interface, global operations have been moved from the dropdown menu to a sidebar located on the left, and tools for virtual machines have been moved to separate tabs shown above the area with […]

A vulnerability in HTTP/2 protocol implementations that simplifies the execution of DoS attacks

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A new type of attack against HTTP/2 protocol implementations has been introduced, simplifying the execution of denial of service attacks through server resource exhaustion. The vulnerability has been codenamed MadeYouReset and allows the flooding of the server with a large number of requests circumventing established limits through manipulation of HTTP/2 control frames. The essence of the problem is that a client can create a very large number of simultaneously processed streams, […]

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