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Release of nginx 1.29.2 and the FreeNginx fork 1.29.2

The release of the main branch nginx 1.29.2 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The parallel stable branch 1.28.x only receives critical bug fixes and vulnerability patches. Subsequently, stable branch 1.30 will be formed based on the main branch 1.29.x. The project is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In this new release: Added […]

Former maintainers of RubyGems.org have founded an alternative repository called Gem Cooperative

Five former maintainers of the RubyGems.org, RubyGems, and Bundler projects, including the owner of the Bundler trademark, have announced the creation of an alternative project — Gem Cooperative, which is community-controlled and uses an open governance model inspired by Homebrew. At this stage, the project has launched the gem-server gem.coop, containing all packages from the RubyGems.org catalog and synchronized with it. Full […]

The Ladybird browser has successfully passed 90% of the compatibility tests with the Web platform

Andreas Kling announced that the Ladybird browser successfully passed 90% of the tests from the web-platform-tests suite, which determine compatibility with the benchmark web platform. According to Apple's requirements, this milestone is sufficient to be considered an alternative browser engine for iOS. Ladybird successfully passed 1,861,180 checks out of 2,033,861. For comparison, Chromium 139 passed 1,996,034 checks, Firefox 143 - 1,942,510, Safari 26.0 […]

Update of the graphics editor GIMP 3.0.6

The release of the GIMP 3.0.6 graphic editor has been announced. Pre-built versions are available for Linux (AppImage and Flatpak for x86 and ARM64 architectures), macOS, and Windows. The main focus in preparing this new version was on fixing bugs and regressive changes. New functionality is being developed in the GIMP 3.1 branch, based on which a stable release of GIMP 3.2 with support for link layers will be formed […]

3 abandoned Intel packages are set for removal from Debian Testing

Phoronix has published a warning about the deprecation of 12 packages that have been left without maintainers following staff reductions at Intel and the cessation of the Clear Linux project. The article does not provide links to sources, but it seems the information was obtained from an August report by the Debian QA Group without clarification of the current status. The current list of deprecated packages […]

Release OpenSSH 10.1

OpenSSH 10.1 has been released, an open implementation of the client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Main changes: A security vulnerability has been fixed that allowed an attacker to inject shell commands through manipulation of special characters in the username or URI, which could be executed when running a command specified via the 'ProxyCommand' setting containing substitution '%u'. This issue affects only systems […]

The open USB stack TinyUSB 0.19 has been released.

The TinyUSB project has released version 0.19, developing a cross-platform USB stack for embedded systems. USB stack components are provided for USB hosts and for connected devices. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. To enhance security, dynamic memory allocation operations are not used in TinyUSB. It supports use in multithreaded applications. For safe multithreaded operation […]

The Free Software Foundation celebrated its fortieth anniversary and presented the LibrePhone project.

The Free Software Foundation celebrated its 40th anniversary. In 1985, one year after the establishment of the GNU project, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation. The organization was created to protect against companies with questionable reputations, caught misappropriating code and trying to sell some of the first tools of the GNU project developed by Stallman and his colleagues. Three years later […]

The Open Printer project is developing an open inkjet printer

A group of French enthusiasts has introduced the Open Printer project, aimed at creating a color inkjet printer with open hardware and software components. The device is modular and built on standard interchangeable parts. The printer can be assembled like a constructor and can be upgraded, improved, or repaired independently as needed. The project resources, including files with electronic and mechanical component schematics, firmware, drivers, and lists […]

The release of ZLUDA 5, a universal open implementation of CUDA technology.

Andrzej Janik has released ZLUDA 5, an open-source implementation of the CUDA technology. The aim of the project is to provide the ability to run unmodified CUDA applications on systems with GPUs other than NVIDIA GPUs, with performance close to that of applications running without layers. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. ZLUDA 5 has […]

Release of Wine 10.16

An experimental release of the open-source Win32 API implementation, Wine 10.16, has been published. Since the release of 10.15, 34 bug reports have been closed, and 364 changes have been made. The most significant changes include full support for the ntsync driver, 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 […]

Release of Raspberry Pi OS translated to Debian 13 base

The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have presented a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS 2025-10-01 (Raspbian) distribution, based on the Debian 13 package base. Approximately 35,000 packages are available in the repository. The desktop environment is based on the labwc compositing server, which uses the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds have been prepared for download: a minimal (476 MB) version for server systems, with a basic desktop […]

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