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Second Release Candidate for the Debian 13 Installer

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The second release candidate for the installer of the upcoming major release Debian 13 'Trixie' has been published. The release of Debian 13 is expected in mid-July. Currently, there are 136 critical bugs blocking the release, which is comparable to the levels observed during the publication of past releases. Changes compared to the previous testing version of the installer include: the removal of the wget utility from busybox. The apt-setup has disabled […]

In GNOME 49, the document viewer Evince will be replaced by the application Papers.

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The team responsible for GNOME releases has approved the inclusion of a new document viewer, Papers, into the main GNOME lineup. Starting with GNOME 49, the Papers program will be supplied instead of Evince under the name Document Viewer as the default document viewer. Changes related to the replacement of Evince with Papers have been accepted into the GNOME repository. In Ubuntu 25.04, the Papers application is already included […]

Release of CoreBoot 25.06, Libreboot 25.06, and Canoeboot 25.06 firmwares.

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The CoreBoot 25.06 release has been published, developing an open-source alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 879 changes made by 128 developers. Key updates: Support for motherboards has been implemented: ASUS H61M-A/USB3; CWWK CW-ADL-4L-V1.0 and CW-ADLNTB-1C2L-V3.0; Intel Google Chrome EC; MiTAC Computing R520G6SB and SC513G6; NovaCustom V540TNx (14″) and […]

Beta release of the RPM package manager 6.0

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Red Hat has released a beta version of the RPM 6.0 package manager, which will be used in the upcoming autumn release of Fedora Linux 43. The project is utilized in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, Rosa Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The RPM code is released under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Version 5 of RPM has been skipped to avoid overlap with the project […]

Attack via Bluetooth headphones from Sony, Marshall, and Beyerdynamic using Airoha chips

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Vulnerabilities have been found in Bluetooth devices using SoCs from Airoha Systems, allowing control over the device through the sending of specially crafted data via Bluetooth Classic or BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). The attack can be executed without authentication and without prior pairing, as long as the victim's device is within Bluetooth signal range (approximately 10 meters). These vulnerabilities affect certain models of wireless […]

The third pre-release of the Pidgin 3.0 messenger

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The third experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.92) instant messaging client has been presented. This release is marked as having a pre-alpha quality level, not intended for everyday use. The builds are prepared in Flatpak format (only the source archive is currently available). The Pidgin 3 branch has been developed since 2011, following three more years of discussion at the conceptual stage. […]

Vulnerabilities in the sudo utility allow obtaining root privileges in the system.

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A vulnerability (CVE-2025-32463) has been discovered in the sudo package, which is used for executing commands on behalf of other users. This vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to execute code with root privileges, even if the user is not mentioned in the sudoers configuration. Affected distributions are those using the configuration file /etc/nsswitch.conf; for example, the exploit of this vulnerability has been demonstrated in Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 41. The vulnerability manifests in the configuration as […]

Release of ALT Education 11.0 Distribution

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The company "Bazalt SPO" has released a new version of the Linux distribution for educational organizations — "ALT Education" 11.0, built on the ALT platform 11 (p11). The distribution is intended for everyday use by preschools, schools, universities, and technical colleges. The product is distributed under a Licensing Agreement that allows free use by individuals. Commercial and government organizations can download and […]

Ubuntu will supply intel-compute-runtime without Spectre protection, reducing performance by 20%.

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Ubuntu has decided to switch by default to providing the intel-compute-runtime package, built with the NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS flag, which disables protection against Spectre-class attacks. According to Ubuntu developers, having such protection leads to a performance reduction of about 20% for the package. The intel-compute-runtime package includes components necessary for using OpenCL and OneAPI Level Zero on systems with Intel GPUs. In the builds provided […]

Cryptsetup 2.8 is available with support for inline metadata storage mode.

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A set of utilities Cryptsetup 2.8 has been released, designed for configuring disk partition encryption in Linux using the dm-crypt module. Support is provided for working with dm-crypt, LUKS, LUKS2, BITLK, loop-AES, and TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt partitions. It also includes utilities veritysetup and integritysetup for configuring data integrity checks based on dm-verity and dm-integrity modules. Key improvements: Added support for inline mode, allowing the use of advanced […]

Release Hangover 10.11, a package for running Windows applications on ARM64 systems

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The Hangover 10.11 toolkit has been released, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in ARM64 (Aarch64) based environments. Development is underway for a Hangover variant for RISC-V architecture. The project's outputs are distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Hangover significantly outperforms configurations where Wine is run entirely in emulation mode, as […]

The author of Node.js is seeking to revoke the JavaScript trademark.

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Ryan Dahl, the creator of the JavaScript platforms Node.js and Deno, is seeking to retract the trademark "JavaScript" from Oracle. The first step was the publication last year of an open letter to Oracle calling for the abandonment of the JavaScript trademark, as the term has become a generic term unrelated to specific Oracle products and is widely used by individuals and companies. […]

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