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Kalle Valo, the only maintainer of wireless network drivers in Linux, has announced his departure from this position. Additionally, he is also leaving his roles as a co-maintainer for Qualcomm ATH12K, ATH11K, ATH10K drivers and the Atheros ATH Generic Utilities. Support for Qualcomm ATH12K, ATH11K, ATH10K, and Atheros ATH utilities will continue under Jeff Johnson […]
A change has been accepted into the codebase used for the upcoming GNOME 48 release, transitioning the desktop environment to use the Adwaita Sans font by default. Since 2010, the Cantarell font has been used in GNOME, but the need for a replacement arose due to stagnation in development and maintenance issues. The new font, Adwaita Sans, is based on the Inter font, specifically designed for use […]
Google has expanded the capabilities of the Terminal application, allowing it to launch a terminal emulator with access to a full Linux environment running in a virtual machine. During the development of the Android 16 branch, support for launching graphical applications built for Linux has been added to Terminal. The virtual machine for Linux applications has implemented hardware graphics acceleration tools. A compositor server, Weston, has been included to build the graphical environment […]
On January 11 and 22, after more than six months of development, versions 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 of the two-panel file manager Worker, written in C++ using its own GUI library (X11 only), were released under the GNU GPL 2 license. Worker offers a vast array of settings, both for appearance and functionality, which can be extended with the built-in interpreter […]
The Python Package Index (PyPI) has introduced support for marking projects as archived. Maintainers can now archive a project to inform users that it will no longer receive updates. This will enable users to make more informed decisions about which packages their software depends on, especially regarding the security of the dependency chain […]
The first release of the OpenVox project has been introduced, which develops a fork of the Puppet configuration automation system, allowing for administration automation across a group of servers and organizing centralized execution of tasks such as user management, package installation, and configuration updates. It is noted that the first release OpenVox 8.11 is equivalent to the similar version of Puppet and can be used as a transparent replacement. The project code is written in Ruby and […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have announced a change in their model for producing significant releases. Instead of the current scheme, where a significant release is made once a year and based on the ESR branches of Firefox, starting March 2025, significant releases will be published monthly and based on the releases of Firefox with regular maintenance duration. Since October last year, Thunderbird […]
After two and a half years of development, the twenty-seventh alpha release of the free game 0 A.D., featuring real-time strategy reminiscent of the Age of Empires series, has been presented. Like all previous releases, the new version is marked 'alpha', but the developers have decided to break from this tradition, and the next update will be labeled '0 A.D. Release 28'. The alpha version tag […]
The developers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have announced the option to assign archived status to projects, which prohibits any updates from being published. The archive project page displays a warning that the maintainer will no longer be releasing new updates. For users, this label may signal not to use the given package, as no further […]
The number of lines in the Linux kernel has crossed the milestone of 40 million, with the last 20 million accumulated over the past 10 years (since 2015). Proof from the terminal where this number was recorded. Let’s congratulate the developers on this anniversary! %) Source: linux.org.ru
Collabora has announced the continuation of the development of the libsurvive toolkit, which advances the open implementation of the Lighthouse motion tracking technology for virtual reality systems. The project had been in a state of stagnation since 2022. After several years of inactivity, the original maintainers of libsurvive decided to completely step away from development and transferred the rights to the GitHub project to Collabora. Two new […] have been appointed to oversee further development of the project.
The release of the OPNsense 25.1 distribution for creating firewalls has been published. This project, which split from pfSense in 2015, aims to develop a fully open distribution that can provide functionality on par with commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, this project is positioned as not controlled by a single company and is developed with the direct involvement of the community and […]