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Coreboot Release 26.09, the open-source alternative to proprietary firmware

The release of the CoreBoot project 26.09 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 1251 changes, prepared with the participation of 112 developers, 28 of whom contributed for the first time. Key changes: Support for 26 motherboards has been implemented: Acer TravelMate P633-M and P633-V; Apple iMac4,1; ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X […]

virtio-nvgpu — a module for providing access to NVIDIA GPUs from KVM virtual machines

The virtio-nvgpu project develops a virtio device that allows access to NVIDIA GPUs from guest systems running under the KVM hypervisor, with minimal performance loss. It includes a kernel module loaded in the guest system and a virtio device running on the host environment. The kernel module code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license, while the virtio device code is written in Rust […]

The Apache Subversion version control system 1.15.0 is available.

After more than six years since the last major release, the Apache Software Foundation has launched the release of the centralized version control system Subversion 1.15.0. Key improvements in Subversion 1.15 include the addition of a mode that operates without caching base revisions of all files on the local system (Pristines On Demand), allowing the size of the working copy on disk to be reduced by up to 50% by downloading files from the server as needed […]

Samba 4.25.0 Release

After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.25.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a complete implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service compatible with the Windows Server implementation and capable of serving all supported Microsoft Windows client versions, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product, also providing file server, print service, and server […]

Attacks through external channels via the file system change tracking mechanism

Researchers from Graz University of Technology (Austria) have identified a series of attacks through side channels (PDF) conducted via file system change tracking mechanisms. These attacks enable the monitoring of other users' activities based on analyzing events related to file and directory access through APIs such as inotify in Linux, FileObserver in Android, ReadDirectoryChangesW in Windows, and File System Events in […]

COSMIC Desktop Environment Release 1.9.0

System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.9.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.9.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is evolving as a versatile […]

Ubuntu moves to an accelerated vulnerability patch cycle for packages with the Linux kernel

Canonical has announced a shift to a unified 2-week cycle for preparing Linux kernel package updates, with a new update released each week. The development cycle for updates has been shortened due to the increased frequency of vulnerability discoveries in the Linux kernel. The new cycle for generating the next patch update for the kernel package will now be initiated weekly, without separating regular updates and […]

Qualcomm implements support for Snapdragon X2 chips in Linux

Qualcomm has announced the incorporation of changes into the mainline Linux kernel that provide support for devices with Snapdragon X2 chips, featuring Qualcomm Oryon CPUs (ranging from 6 to 18 cores depending on the model), an AI accelerator Hexagon (80 TOPS), and Adreno X2-90 GPUs. Among other things, a FastRPC driver for the Hexagon NPU will be prepared and support for new Adreno GPUs will be added to the Mesa drivers Freedreno, Turnip, and […]

Chrome 154 Release

Google has released version 154 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in that it includes Google logos, has a crash reporting notification system, supports modules for playing protected video content (DRM), features automatic update installation, always-on Sandbox isolation, provides keys for Google APIs, and transmits RLZ parameters […]

The decentralized error tracking system git-bug 0.11 is available.

The release of project git-bug 0.11.0 has been published, which develops a bug tracking system that stores information about issues and comments as objects in a Git repository. Similar to changes in the source code, the git-bug toolkit allows you to put information about tracked bugs into external repositories using the push operation, as well as retrieve data from the external repository to the local repository using the pull operation. The project code […]

The Peppermint OS distribution is switching from X.Org Server to XLibre.

The developers of the Peppermint OS Linux distribution, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and offering a user environment based on the Xfce desktop and Thunar file manager, announced the switch to using XLibre, a fork of the X.Org Server, by default. XLibre will be utilized in the next update of the PeppermintOS ISO images, for which experimental builds have been offered for testing prior to their release. In the foreseeable future, Peppermint OS plans to […]

The first release of scan, a text parsing library for C++ that builds finite automata at compile time.

The first release of the scan library (0.1.0) has been published, which parses text into values based on a template known at compile-time. The template or format is written as a C++ template argument and is transformed at compile time into a tagged deterministic finite automaton (TDFA), whose traversal is unfolded into code states at compile-time using C++ templates. The result of execution is […]

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