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The PipeWire development team, a modern multimedia framework for audio and video processing, has announced the release of a new version 1.4.0. This release includes support for the RISC-V architecture, enhanced MIDI 2.0 functionality, a new API for JACK management, and numerous other innovations. Key changes: Added support for RISC-V architecture. Added experimental support for MIDI 2.0, a new standard for music interfaces, which […]
The new stable branch WebKitGTK 2.48.0 has been introduced, which is a port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform. WebKitGTK allows users to leverage all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented programming interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing features into any application, ranging from the use in specialized HTML/CSS parsers to the creation of full-fledged web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include the native […]
The release of the DXVK 2.6 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 8, 9, 10, and 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.3 are required, such as Mesa RADV 24.0, NVIDIA 535.183.01, Intel ANV 24.0, AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3, AMDGPU-PRO, and NVK 24.1. DXVK can be used for […]
The Chinese company LimX Dynamics, which released the modular bipedal robot Tron 1 last year, showcased its capabilities. The robot jumps over low barriers, climbs stairs, and easily overcomes obstacles. It proved to be difficult to throw it off balance. The modular design of Tron 1's limbs allows for the robot's 'feet' to be changed, including installing […]
On March 3, version 7.3 of the fast cross-platform text search utility ugrep was released. For more efficient searching through large amounts of files on slow storage devices, or when searching through many archives (zip, zstd, tar, bzip2, bzip3, 7z, lzma, lz4, brotli, etc.), you can first perform indexing with the ugrep-indexer utility (included with the ugrep distribution since version 6.0). The utility […]
Firefox 136 is available with support for vertical tab placement, AI chatbots, automatic conversion of HTTP requests to HTTPS, and VA-API support on AMD graphics cards. Linux: Hardware acceleration for video decoding (VA-API) is enabled on systems with AMD GPUs (requires Mesa version 24.2 or newer). Official ARM64 (AArch64) builds are available as tarballs, as well as from the APT repository. […]
Members of the technical committee of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), part of the Linux Foundation, have approved the acceptance of the Cozystack project, which develops a platform for building private clouds and PaaS. Cozystack has achieved sandbox project status within CNCF. The Cozystack developers have begun the process of integration with the CNCF infrastructure. The Cozystack platform is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and allows users to build a cloud for deployment on existing hardware […]
Correction updates for the collaborative development platform GitLab — versions 17.9.2, 17.8.5, and 17.7.7 — have been released, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-25291, CVE-2025-25292) that allows SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists in the Ruby library ruby-saml, which implements SAML authorization functions. Besides GitLab, the vulnerability also affects other projects using this library. The issue has been fixed in ruby-saml updates 1.18.0 […]
A new version of the control panel for Focusrite audio interfaces from the Scarlett, Clarett/Clarett+, and Vocaster series has been released. ALSA Scarlett Control Panel offers a convenient interface for managing signal routing and volume in the interface channels, as well as for additional settings like firmware updates and enabling mass storage device mode for some models. Focusrite provides the developer with the necessary technical information and […]
The first alpha version of the native RPCS3 port, a PlayStation 3 emulator, on Android has been released. It is being developed by one of the founders of the RPCS3 project (as well as RPCSX – a PS4 emulator), who has been working on it for many years, DH. An official native RPCS3 port for ArmLinux (Raspberry Pi, PineBook, Ubuntu Touch, Orange Pi, and other Linux devices with Arm) was previously released. Source: linux.org.ru
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-27363) has been identified in the FreeType font rendering library, which could potentially lead to code execution when processing specially crafted files with variable fonts or TrueType GX fonts. The issue only manifests in FreeType releases up to and including version 2.13.0 and is fixed in version 2.13.1 (June 2023). It is believed that the vulnerability has been exploited in the past for […]
Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and technical leader of the Ubuntu project, introduced an initiative to replace system utilities in Ubuntu with equivalents written in Rust. The first goal of the initiative is to transition Ubuntu 25.10 to using the uutils toolkit by default instead of the GNU Coreutils. If the experiment is deemed successful, uutils will also be […]