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"Made in Germany": Volla unveils the Phone Plinius, a rugged smartphone with a removable battery and a choice of two operating systems.

German smartphone manufacturer Volla has unveiled two rugged mid-range models: the Volla Phone Plinius and Volla Phone Plinius Plus. Both new models feature the same design and similar specifications. They differ in memory capacity, as well as a reinforced back cover and pogo pins on the larger Plus model. The smartphones are IP68-certified, making them waterproof. The devices, […]

GCC 16

After a year of development, GCC 16.1, the free compiler suite, has been released, the first major release in the new GCC 16.x branch. Following the release numbering scheme, GCC 16.0 was used during development, and shortly before GCC 16.1 was released, GCC 17.0 forked off, which will form the basis for the next major release, GCC 17.1. Key changes: [Unrelated] mode […]

NotepadNext 0.14

On April 28th, version 0.14 of the cross-platform code editor NotepadNext was released. The author calls it a "cross-platform rewrite of Notepad++." The project is written in C++ (C++20 standard) using the Qt 6 framework (minimum version 6.5) and is distributed under the GNU GPL 3.0 license. Changes include: CMake has been replaced with QMake, and CPM.cmake has replaced Git submodules; the "Find [...]" dialog box's sizing has been modified.

Exim 4.99.2 mail server update fixes four vulnerabilities

A patch release of Exim 4.99.2 has been published, fixing four vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-40685 – a buffer overflow when processing JSON data in an email header. CVE-2026-40686 – an out-of-bounds buffer overflow when processing specially crafted UTF-8 characters at the end of headers. This vulnerability may lead to a memory leak in returned messages […]

Microsoft open-sourced 86-DOS and PC-DOS under the MIT license.

Microsoft has released the source code for the 86-DOS 1.00 and PC-DOS 1.00 operating systems, as well as the Microsoft BASIC-86 compiler runtime libraries, the SCP assembler, and the CHKDSK and EDLIN utilities, under the MIT license. PC-DOS 1.00 is notable for being the first release of DOS for IBM PC computers. The code was restored as part of a project to reconstruct the code of the first versions of DOS for the 8086 CPU, […]

The Genode project has released Sculpt OS 26.04, a general-purpose operating system.

The Sculpt 26.04 project has been released, developing an operating system based on Genode OS Framework technologies that can be used by ordinary users to perform everyday tasks. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A 33 MB system image is available for download, which can be used on a PC, PinePhone smartphone, and MNT Reform laptop. It supports work on systems with […]

Release of the GCC 16 compiler suite

After a year of development, GCC 16.1, the free compiler suite, has been released, the first major release in the new GCC 16.x branch. Following the release numbering scheme, version 16.0 was used during development, and shortly before GCC 16.1 was released, GCC 17.0 forked off, which will form the basis for the next major release, GCC 17.1. Key changes: [This section appears to be incomplete and likely a mistranslation.]

Stellarium 26.1

On April 5th, the popular free cross-platform planetarium Stellarium quietly and quietly released version 26.1 – the first this year. The project is written in C++ using the Qt framework (versions 5 and 6 are supported) and is licensed under the GNU GPL 2.0. The main changes in this version include the addition of two new Chinese star charts: Manchu and Xianglin; […]

Notepad++ is now available on macOS as a native application

Notepad++ is now available as a native application for macOSIt's a free text editor that supports multiple programming languages ​​and is suitable for general text processing. It doesn't require any additional tools like Wine, Porting Kit, or emulation tools. It's a full-fledged native application developed under the GNU General Public License. Thanks to its powerful text editing […]

Copy Fail is a kernel vulnerability. Linux, which allows you to gain root in most distributions

Researchers from Xint have identified a kernel Linux A vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) allows an unprivileged user to gain root access to a system. The issue is codenamed Copy Fail. A prototype exploit is available. The possibility of exploiting the vulnerability was demonstrated in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Amazon Linux 2023, RHEL 10.1 and SUSE 16, but it is noted that kernel packages from other distributions, including Debian, Arch, Fedora, […]

curl 8.20.0

On April 29th, after over a month of development, 521 commits, and 282 bug fixes, version 8.20.0 (the 274th) of the cross-platform curl command-line utility and library, written in C and distributed under the curl license, was released. Key Changes: Security As mentioned earlier ("High quality chaos"), there has been a significant increase in security reports recently. This time […]

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