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A new version of the oldest editor written in C and Lisp, Emacs 30.1, has been released! Key changes include: porting to Android; native compilation enabled by default (if the libgccjit library is available); native JSON support without the previously used libjansson library. Incompatible changes with previous versions: Tree-Sitter modes are now declared as sub-modes of non-TS modes (corrections in major-mode-remap-alist, allowing modes to be added to TS, […]
On February 22, the releases 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 of the qman console utility, designed for more convenient viewing of man pages, were announced. The utility is written in C and is distributed under the BSD 2 license. Change list: improved navigation through the table of contents; added support for compressed bzip2 man pages; added support for deprecated groff GROFF_NO_SGR sequences; added support for embedded HTTP links; added a new light RGB theme catppuccin_latte.conf; […]
The release of the SVT-AV1 3.0 library (Scalable Video Technology AV1) has been published, featuring implementations of the encoder and decoder for the AV1 video encoding format, which leverage hardware parallel processing capabilities present in modern Intel CPUs for acceleration. The project was created by Intel in partnership with Netflix to achieve a performance level suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and application in services delivering […]
The lightweight IceWM 3.7.0 window manager has been released. IceWM provides full management through keyboard shortcuts, support for virtual desktops, task panels, and application menus, with tabs available for grouping windows. The window manager can be configured via a straightforward configuration file, and theming is possible. Window grouping in the form of tabs is supported. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are available. […]
The syncspirit 0.4.0 program release has been made available, enabling users to organize automatic continuous file synchronization across multiple devices. The project addresses similar tasks as the proprietary BitTorrent Sync system. Syncspirit is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; local embedded database management system MBDX is used for storage; an actor framework is employed for event handling […]
The company System76, which develops the Linux distribution Pop!_OS, has introduced the sixth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC have been provided for testing, built on top of the alpha builds of the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution release for systems with NVIDIA (3.1 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB) GPUs. Additionally […]
Étienne Guivinie, also known as Tk-Glitch, is known for his GitHub projects wine-tkg, wine-proton-tkg, and Tk-Glitch PKGBUILDs (the latter intended for ArchLinux-based distributions). After about ten years of support, he started to complain about his health. As a result, he has been less involved in the 're-basing' of patches and accepting pull requests. Étienne states he doesn't intend to abandon the repository. However, it soon became known that he […]
Another release of Apache NetBeans has been introduced – an integrated development environment supporting programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and more. The IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. In this release: improved support for build systems Gradle, Maven, and Ant; enhanced Java support: fixed errors related to hints with the switch statement; improved autocomplete […]
The release of the labwc project 0.8.3 (Lab Wayland Compositor) has been published, developing a composite server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Notable features of labwc include minimalism, a compact implementation, extensive customization options, and high performance. Animated effects, gradients, and icons, except for window buttons, are fundamentally not supported. The code […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API – Wine 10.2 has been published. Since the release of 10.1, 20 bug reports have been closed and 269 changes have been made. The most important changes include: the built-in Vkd3d package with the Direct3D 12 implementation has been updated to version 1.15. Support for thread priority adjustment has been added. The ability to dynamically enable Wow64 mode (64-bit Windows-on-Windows), allowing the execution of 32-bit Windows applications […]
Information has been released about 21 vulnerabilities in the GRUB2 bootloader, most of which lead to buffer overflow and can be used to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot verification mechanism. Problems have only been addressed in the form of patches so far. The status of vulnerability remediation in distributions can be assessed on the following pages: Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, RHEL, Fedora. Simply […] addressing the issues in GRUB2 is not sufficient.
A corrective release of the Exim mail server 4.98.1 is available, which fixes a vulnerability (CVE-2025-26794) that allows SQL code injection into the internal Hints DB used for storing message delivery status information. This vulnerability only occurs in Exim 4.98 when compiled with the '_USE_SQLITE_' option, enabling the use of SQLite DB for storing the Hints DB (enabled if you run 'exim -bV' […]