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The Maintenance Fee initiative proposes charging for access to the release builds of open projects.

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The author of WiX, an open tool for creating installation packages for Windows, is developing a Maintenance Fee initiative to address the funding problem for maintaining open projects. The Maintenance Fee initiative allows for a small monthly fee (suggested at $10) to support the financial sustainability of projects, without compromising their openness or relying on funding models like Open Core, which imply […]

Android has a built-in capability to run graphical Linux applications.

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The Android Canary branch, which replaces the Android Developer Preview and is used for testing features for future Android releases, has added the ability to run graphical applications built for Linux. This is accomplished through the Linux Terminal app, which allows for the launch of a virtual machine with Debian GNU/Linux within the Android environment where standard Linux applications can be executed. To start the graphical environment in the application […]

The first release of Wayback, a layer for launching X11 desktops using Wayland components.

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The first experimental release of the Wayback 0.1 project has been introduced, allowing the launch of desktop environments based on the X11 protocol using components built on Wayland. Wayback is a trimmed-down Wayland composite server that only supports the necessary features for running a full-screen X11 session using Xwayland (the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) for executing X11 applications in Wayland-based environments). The project's code is written in […]

The distribution release for creating OPNsense firewalls 25.7

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The release of the OPNsense 25.7 distribution for creating firewalls has been published. This project separated from pfSense in 2015 with the goal of developing a fully open distribution that could offer functionality on par with commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as being independent of any one company, developed with direct community involvement and […]

In the Apache 2.4.65 web server, a problem that breaks mod_rewrite functionality has been fixed.

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The release of Apache HTTP Server 2.4.65 has been announced, which fixes a critical bug in mod_rewrite causing conditions specified through the 'RewriteCond' expression to always return 'true', meaning rules always triggered regardless of the checked data. The 'RewriteCond' expression is key in mod_rewrite and is used to check conditions in most situations. The issue was caused by an incorrect change in a previous release and manifests only […]

The XLibre project integrates drivers into the main branch of the X server.

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Enrico Weigelt, the lead of the XLibre project, has prepared a pull request integrating the main drivers for X11 into the master branch of the X server after discussions with the community. The reason cited is the desynchronization between the X server and drivers due to the changing ABI that the drivers interact with, as well as the desire to provide all necessary drivers alongside the X server without the need for manual searches for compatible versions. Some community members criticize this […]

Fedora proposes to utilize FlatHub in atomic editions of the distribution.

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Michael Catanzaro, one of the developers of the Epiphany web browser (GNOME Web), involved in GNOME and Fedora projects, has proposed a review of the use of the FlatHub directory in Fedora Linux. In the atomically updated version of Fedora Workstation, it is suggested to enable the FlatHub directory by default for flatpak packages installed by users, while limiting the use of the own flatpak package repository only to preinstalled packages. Currently […]

Release of the MySQL database management system 9.4.0.

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Oracle has formed a new branch of the MySQL database management system, version 9.4.0. Builds of MySQL Community Server 9.4.0 have been prepared for all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. In accordance with the release model introduced in 2023, MySQL 9.4 is classified under the 'Innovation' branches. Innovation branches are recommended for those who wish to gain early access to new functionality and are published every three months […]

Release of Firefox 141

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The release of the Firefox 141 web browser has occurred, along with updates for previous long-term support branches—140.1.0, 115.26.0, and 128.13.0. The Firefox 142 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for August 19. Key innovations in Firefox 141: Experimental support for automatic tab grouping has been added, based on the use of a locally running AI model that determines tabs similar in theme. After […]

Google has introduced the OSS Rebuild project to identify hidden changes in packages.

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Google has introduced the OSS Rebuild project, designed to identify hidden changes in completed packages published in repositories. OSS Rebuild operates on the concept of reproducible builds and involves checking the compliance of a package hosted in the repository with a package obtained from rebuilding the reference source code that corresponds to the declared package version. The toolkit code is written in Go and […]

The OpenAPV 0.2 library is available, featuring a reference implementation of the APV video codec.

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The OpenAPV library has released a standard implementation of the APV (Advanced Professional Video) video codec, designed for professional recording and processing of video without quality loss. The library's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. The project is developed by the Academy Software Foundation, established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (USA) and the Linux Foundation to promote the use of open source software in […]

Phishing has allowed control over several popular NPM packages.

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A phishing attack has been recorded targeting JavaScript library maintainers, during which a message was sent on behalf of the NPM service notifying about the need to confirm their email. The conducted attack allowed attackers to obtain NPM tokens from the maintainer of one of the major JavaScript projects and release updates with malicious code for five NPM packages, totaling about 100 million downloads per week. The message sent to the maintainers was styled […]

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