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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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
The release of the main nginx branch 1.29.1 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The stable branch 1.28.x, which is being supported in parallel, only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, a stable branch 1.30 will be formed based on the main branch 1.29.x. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: Fixed […]
The release of the file synchronization system Syncthing 2.0 has been introduced, where synchronized data is not uploaded to cloud storage, but is directly replicated between user systems when they appear online simultaneously, using the protocol BEP (Block Exchange Protocol) developed by the project. The Syncthing code is written in Go and is distributed under the MPL open source license. Ready-made builds are prepared for Linux, Windows, […]
NVIDIA has released the proprietary driver NVIDIA 580.76.05 (the first stable release of the new 580.76 branch). The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64), and Solaris (x86_64). NVIDIA 580.x became the eleventh stable branch after NVIDIA opened the components working at the kernel level. The source code of the kernel modules nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko (Direct Rendering Manager), nvidia-modeset.ko, and nvidia-uvm.ko (Unified Video Memory) […]
The release of Whonix 17.4 is now available, aimed at providing guaranteed anonymity, security, and privacy protection. The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses Tor for anonymity. The project's builds are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Virtual machine images in ova format for VirtualBox (2.3 GB with Xfce and 1.5 GB console) are prepared for download, which can be converted […]