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After six months of development, OBS Studio 31.1 has been released, a package for streaming, compositing, and recording video. The code is written in C/C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are available for Linux (flatpak), Windows, and macOS. The goal of developing OBS Studio was to create a portable version of the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Classic) that is not tied to the Windows platform and supports OpenGL.
The developers of the AlmaLinux distribution have introduced a new version of the ELevate toolkit, which simplifies migration between major releases of distributions based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux package base while preserving applications, data, and settings. The project supports migration between major branches of AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and CentOS Stream. The migration utilizes the Leapp utility developed by Red Hat, which has been enhanced with patches that account for the specifics of CentOS.
Emergency updates for Samba 4.22.3 and 4.21.7 have been released to address compatibility issues between Samba servers and the upcoming Windows Server update. If the proposed corrective updates are not installed, Samba servers will be unable to function as members of Windows Active Directory domains if the user ID mapping settings utilize the ‘ad’ backend. Microsoft has scheduled this update for July 8.
The release of DXVK 2.7 is now available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 8, 9, 10, and 11, which operates through API call translation to Vulkan. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.3 are required, such as Mesa RADV 25.0, NVIDIA 550.54.14, and Intel ANV 25.0. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
Corrective releases of the Redis DBMS (6.2.19, 7.2.10, 7.4.5, 8.0.3) and Valkey (8.0.4, 8.1.3) have been published, addressing two vulnerabilities. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-32023) could potentially allow remote code execution on the server due to data being written outside the bounds of allocated buffers. To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must be capable of sending commands to the DBMS. This issue is caused by a flaw in […]
After 13 months of development, a stable release of the Wayland protocol, inter-process communication mechanisms, and libraries has been introduced as version 1.24. The 1.24 branch is backward compatible with API and ABI levels of the 1.x releases and primarily contains bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The project developments are distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor server Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]
After nearly three years of development, a new version of the GNU Bash command interpreter 5.3 has been released, which is used by default in most Linux distributions. At the same time, the readline library 8.3 was released, which is used in bash for command line editing. Key improvements include: New forms of command substitution "${ command; }" and "${|command;}" have been implemented, allowing the capture of command output without forking […]
The non-profit Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone, announced the upcoming issuance of free certificates for IP addresses. Unlike certificates for domains, the validity period for IP address certificates will be 30 days, and 6 days. This capability will enable secure encrypted access to hosts not only when using domain names but also when […]
Igor Pavlov announced a new version of the archiver 7-Zip 25.00. The project develops its own 7z archive format based on LZMA and LZMA2 compression algorithms. Additionally, it supports packing and unpacking archives in formats such as XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, and WIM, as well as unpacking over 30 archive formats, packages, virtual machine images, and file systems (ISO, NTFS, EXT*, UDF, UEFI, […]
Canonical has released version 1.16 of the multipass toolkit, designed to simplify the installation of various versions of Ubuntu in virtual machines run on Linux, Windows, and macOS virtualization systems. This release is notable for the complete open-sourcing of the project's codebase — the repository now includes the code for the components that facilitate operation on Windows and macOS, which was previously not publicly available. The project code is written in C++ and […]
After two years of development, the release of OpenMW 0.49 has been published, which advances the free implementation of the engine for the fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Compared to the original engine, OpenMW features a revamped user interface, improved graphics, and introduces its own editor, OpenMW-CS, for creating new games and mods, along with support for […]
Nate Graham, a quality control developer in the KDE project, has published another development report for KDE. The report mentions the KDE project's development of a new on-screen keyboard, plasma-keyboard, which is being created to replace the Maliit virtual keyboard currently used on mobile devices and touchscreen systems. The plasma-keyboard is based on the code of the Qt on-screen keyboard included in Qt […]