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Kernel port introduced Linux for WebAssembly, running in the browser

On the kernel developers mailing list Linux Patches implementing the Wasm architecture for the kernel have been published Linux, which allows the kernel to be compiled into WebAssembly intermediate code for subsequent direct execution in a web browser without the use of emulators. In addition, for the kernel Linux The project implemented the ability to run executable files in the ".wasm" format and prepared a "web console" driver to simulate working with the console […]

Release of Pacman 7.1 package manager

Pacman 7.1, the package manager used in the Arch distribution, is now available. LinuxAmong the changes, the following are noteworthy: Mandatory digital signature verification for packages and files in the repository database is now enabled by default (the SigLevel setting is set to "Required" by default). Missing or invalid signatures will now result in termination with an error by default. Sandbox isolation has been strengthened […]

Release of the FPDoom project 1.20251101, developing ports of Doom and other games for push-button phones

Release 1.20251101 of the FPDoom project is now available. It allows you to run classic Doom, its expansions, and other ports of games on the Spreadtrum SC6531 chip and its variants, a common chip found in inexpensive push-button phones. The project includes ports of vanilla Doom, as well as Duke3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, Hexen, and the InfoNES, Snes9x, and gnuboy emulators. The ports are bare-metal applications that run […]

Π’ Debian intend to add Rust to the list of mandatory dependencies of APT

Julian Andres Klode, the main maintainer of the APT project, announced the decision to add Rust code to the APT package manager, as well as to include the Rust compiler, the Rust standard library, and the Sequoia project's PGP toolchain, written in Rust, among the required dependencies. The changes are scheduled to be implemented no earlier than May 2026 to give port developers time to develop. Debian [...]

KDE now allows you to customize the visual borders of elements.

Nate Graham, a quality assurance developer for the KDE project, has published the latest KDE development report. The most notable changes being developed for the KDE Plasma 6.6 release, scheduled for February 12th, include: The maximum number of virtual desktops has been increased from 20 to 25 (allowing virtual desktops to be displayed in a 5x5 grid). Support for the xdg portal has been added for […]

Wine 10.18 Release. Share Windows-games running through Wine and Proton approached 90%

The experimental release of the open source Win32 API implementation, Wine 10.18, has been published. Since the release of 10.17, 30 bug reports have been closed and 298 changes have been made. The most important changes: In WoW64 mode (64-bit) Windows-he-Windows), which provides 16/32-bit execution Windows-applications on 64-bit Unix systems, memory mapping for OpenGL has been implemented using the Vulkan API. Support for memory forwarding has been added in WoW64 mode […]

For Ubuntu 25.10: Package versions optimized for the x86-64-v3 architecture have been prepared

Canonical has started shipping for Ubuntu 25.10 separate package variants with executables compiled with optimizations for the x86-64-v3 architecture. Currently, approximately 2000 packages from the main repository are available for x86-64-v3 as an option. These packages have not been tested at the same level as the main packages, but are already available for enthusiasts seeking maximum performance. Ubuntu [...]

SeaMonkey Integrated Internet Application Suite 2.53.22 Released

The SeaMonkey 2.53.22 suite of Internet applications has been released. It combines a web browser, email client, NNTP conference client, news feed aggregation system (RSS/Atom) and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer in one product. The ChatZilla IRC client, DOM Inspector web developer toolkit and Lightning calendar planner are offered as pre-installed add-ons. The new release brings fixes and changes from the current Firefox code base (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based […]

Chrome 154 will start asking for confirmation when opening non-HTTPS websites.

Google announced that automatic redirection of HTTP requests to HTTPS will be included in Chrome 154, scheduled for October 2026. For sites that don't support HTTPS, a confirmation dialog will be displayed before opening them for the first time over HTTP. Currently, this behavior is optional and requires the "Always Use Secure Connections" setting to be enabled. Initially, this always-on mode […]

Release of the Brushshe 2.3.0 graphics editor

Version 2.3.0 of the Brushshe raster graphics editor (codenamed "Vientiane") has been released. The editor supports stickers, frames, and effects, saving to various formats, custom palettes, and image gallery navigation. The project code is written in Python using the CustomTkinter graphics toolkit and is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. Ready-to-use builds are available for Windows ΠΈ Linux (.deb and […]

The AMDGPU driver's DC library now supports GCN 1.0 and analog video outputs.

Timur Kristof, a Valve subcontractor, has released a series of patches that implement support for analog video outputs in the AMDGPU driver's Display Core (DC) library, which is used on AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs. Lack of support for some video outputs in the AMDGPU driver, or the fact that it bypassed the DC library, were among the final reasons why the AMDGPU driver was not used […]

Rust 1.91 Released

The Rust programming language, version 1.91, was released. It was founded by the Mozilla project but is now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on memory safety and provides means for achieving high parallelism of task execution, while doing without the use of a garbage collector and runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). The methods of work […]

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