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The X11Libre project has created a fork of the X.Org Server, free from corporate influence.

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As part of the X11Libre project, the development of a fork of the X.org Server has begun, aimed at cleaning up the codebase and continuing the active development of X.org's functionality. The project was created by Enrico Weigelt, maintainer of AMD FCH GPIO and VIRTIO GPIO drivers in the Linux kernel, maintainer of Xnest, and an active developer of Xorg. In the project announcement, Enrico noted that the freedesktop.org project is not independent […]

The TPDE-LLVM backend has been introduced, operating 10-20 times faster than LLVM in non-optimized mode.

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Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have published the TPDE toolkit and a backend compiler for LLVM based on it — TPDE-LLVM, which provides the generation of machine code for x86-64 and AArch64 architectures from the LLVM-IR intermediate representation. During testing, TPDE-LLVM was found to be 10-20 times faster than the LLVM -O0 backend (the code generator without optimizations) while maintaining the same level of performance for the resulting machine […]

In 10 months, Chrome has achieved a 22% performance increase in the Speedometer 3 test.

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Google has summarized the optimizations made in Chrome since last August. Changes have allowed for a 22% speed increase in passing the Speedometer 3 test (from 42.84 to 52.35 points) and achieving the best results among all browsers. It was mentioned that the performance gain collectively will reduce website loading wait times for all browser users by 58 million hours if […]

Release of the wxWidgets 3.3.0 graphical toolkit

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After three years of development, the release of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.3.0 has been published, allowing the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX-like systems, and mobile platforms. The toolkit is written in C++ and is distributed under the wxWindows Library License, approved by the Free Software Foundation and the OSI organization. This license is based on LGPL and allows for setting custom conditions for distributing derivative works […]

Vulnerability in the Python TarFile module allowing writing to any part of the filesystem

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The built-in Python module tarfile, which provides functions for reading and writing tar archives, has revealed five vulnerabilities, one of which has been assigned a critical danger level. The vulnerabilities have been addressed in releases Python 3.13.4 and 3.12.11. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2025-4517) allows for files to be written to any part of the file system when extracting a specially crafted archive. In system scripts using […]

Release of the integrated SeaMonkey 2.53.21 internet application suite

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The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.21 internet application suite has been announced, combining a web browser, email client, NNTP conference client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and the WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client ChatZilla, the web developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar planner Lightning. The new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

Rocky Linux 9.6 has been released

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The release of Rocky Linux 9.6 has been introduced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.6 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31, 2032. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for […]

The development strategy of the Fedora project up to 2028

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Matthew Miller, the leader of the Fedora project, has published the Fedora development strategy outlining goals and objectives for the next three years. The project will focus on the following areas: Tools for people with disabilities. Work is planned to improve the accessibility of documentation, applications developed by the project, and package building tools for this category of users. Community resilience: mentorship development; […]

Comparison of Valkey and Redis DBMS Performance

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The results of testing the latest releases of Redis 8.0 and Valkey 8.1 have been presented, in which significant performance optimizations have been announced. In all conducted tests, the community-developed fork outperformed the original project, primarily due to the implementation in Valkey of a new mechanism for multithreaded input/output processing in asynchronous mode, provided to the project by Amazon. In the AWS Graviton4 testing environment c8g.2xlarge with 8 […]

VirtualBox 7.1.10 Update

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Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 7.1.10, noting 9 changes. In the additions for hosts and guest systems with Linux, initial support for Linux kernel 6.15 has been added. Issues with building modules for UEK8 (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel) packages used in Oracle Linux 9 distributions have been resolved. In the additions for Linux-based host systems […]

IGL 1.1 Graphics Library Released

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Meta* has released the IGL 1.1 (Intermediate Graphics Library) graphics library, providing a universal low-level API for GPU management. The IGL API encompasses typical GPU functionality and allows for the creation of cross-platform applications that can run on top of OpenGL, Metal, and Vulkan graphics APIs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows systems, as well as use WebGL for rendering in the Web […]

Release of the Oracle Linux 9.6 distribution.

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Oracle has released Oracle Linux 9.6, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 and fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images sized 13 GB and 1.3 GB are available for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 9 provides unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]

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