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The Linux kernel has reached the milestone of 40 million lines of source code. Of the 40 million lines, 24 million pertain to driver code (for instance, the driver code for AMD GPUs accounts for about 5 million lines), while 4.4 million are specific to various hardware architectures (approximately 500 thousand lines are used to support the x86 architecture). From July 2024, the size of the kernel […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.41 has been published, fully complying with the ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017 standards. This new release involved 79 developers. Notable improvements in Glibc 2.41 include: new functions sched_setattr and sched_getattr added for the Linux platform, which allow setting/reading task scheduler parameters. In […]
After 22 years since the formation of the 3.0 branch in 2002, the release of the Privoxy 4.0.0 proxy server has occurred, aimed at creating personal web content filters. With Privoxy, users can cut out advertising inserts, discard tracking cookies, remove pop-up dialogs, block external JavaScript code, and make necessary arbitrary changes to web pages. Privoxy supports installation on local systems of individual […]
On January 27, 2025, a new version of the email client Thunderbird 134.0 was released. This update is available for testing and includes a number of new features and fixes. The main innovation is the implementation of a notification system for real-time alerts on the desktop in Thunderbird. Fixes: Corrected the display of notification messages in dark mode. Resolved inconsistencies […]
A fundamentally new desktop environment, Orbitiny, has been introduced, developed from scratch using the Qt framework. This project aims to combine innovative ideas not previously seen in other DE/WM with classic elements such as taskbars, menus, and desktop icons. The Orbitiny project includes a set of custom utilities and applications such as a file manager, notification system, […]
Hyprland is a Wayland compositor, a dynamic tiling window manager written in C++ and based on Aquamarine (up to version 0.42.0, it was based on wlroots). The developers also mentioned the release of hyprutils 0.50. Critical changes: master:always_center_master has been replaced with a more flexible master:slave_count_for_center_master (no primary/secondary!). In the new version: Experimental support for HDR and color management has been added. Fixed corner rounding for windows. In settings […]
The Hyprland 0.47 composite server, using the Wayland protocol, has been introduced. The project focuses on a tiling window layout but also supports classic free placement of windows, grouping windows in tab form, pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen expansion of windows. It provides opportunities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window frames, background blur, animation effects, and shadows. Functionality can be expanded with […]
The release of the build system Meson 1.7.0, written in Python, has been published. The main changes in the new version: Command line option overriding: You can now fully override option values for subprojects (including the main project) via the command line. This provides flexibility in managing settings for different parts of the project. Cargo support: Meson now resolves all dependencies and […]
The Orbitiny Desktop environment has been introduced, built from the ground up using the Qt framework. The project is presented as an attempt to merge some innovative ideas that have not previously been seen in user environments with traditional elements, such as panels, menus, and icon placements on the desktop. The project evolves with a focus on ensuring portability across various Linux distributions and the ability to use […]
Microsoft has announced the open-sourcing of the DocumentDB project, which can be used as a standalone NoSQL database, a platform for building custom storage systems, or as an addition for storing data in BSON format in PostgreSQL. In practice, DocumentDB is used by Microsoft as the foundation for the 'Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB' product, providing an interface compatible with document-oriented databases […]
The release of the Hangover 10.0 toolkit has been published, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in environments based on ARM64 (Aarch64) architecture. A Hangover version for RISC-V architecture is currently under development. Project developments are distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Hangover significantly outperforms configurations where Wine runs entirely in emulation mode, as […]
Cisco has released new versions of the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.4.2 and 1.0.8, which fix a vulnerability (CVE-2025-20128). The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in the code that parses files containing OLE2 (Object Linking and Embedding 2) content, which could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. The issue has been present since the release of ClamAV 1.0.0 and was identified in […]