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Hello, LOR! A new version of the amazing project OpenZFS, which implements the ZFS file system, has been released. Originally, ZFS was developed by Sun under the name Zettabyte File System (later shortened to just ZFS) and has been shipped with Solaris OS since 2005. After Sun was acquired by Oracle, the Solaris source code was closed. The OpenZFS project was founded as a fork of the last […]
In the upcoming Fedora 42 release, scheduled for late April, all Live builds of the distribution are planned to be switched from SquashFS to the EROFS file system, support for which was implemented last year in the Dracut 103 tool for creating boot images. The proposal has not yet been approved by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora's development. Reasons for the transition […]
The Rsync file synchronization utility has been updated to fix six critical vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities could be exploited with merely an anonymous connection to a Rsync server with read access. Fixed vulnerabilities include: CVE-2024-12084 - an out-of-bounds write via an incorrect checksum exceeding 16 bytes. CVE-2024-12085 - leakage of uninitialized data from the stack […]
The developers of Linux Mint have announced the release of version 22.1, codenamed 'Xia'. The system has LTS (Long Term Support) status with support until 2029. The distribution is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and runs on the Linux 6.8 kernel. The update to the package management system Aptkit replaces aptdaemon for package management. Captain combines the functionalities of GDebi and apturl. This update has improved localization and reduced […]
After a month of development, version 3.48.0 of the compact embedded database SQLite, written in C and distributed as public domain, has been released. Change log: Revised the configure script used for building SQLite from source code to fix bugs, improve performance, and enhance maintainability of the code. This does not affect the configure script in the sqlite3-autoconf-NNNNNNN.tar.gz archive, for which the build system does not […]
Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.41.3, 2.42.4, 2.43.6, 2.44.3, 2.45.3, 2.46.3, v2.47.2 and 2.48.1 have been published, correcting two vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-50349 — a potential information spoofing issue in the interactive password prompt for the repository. The problem is caused by insufficient host name validation, allowing character encoding in %xx format (URL Encoding). An attacker could use the percent […]
Linus Torvalds intended to release the Linux kernel 6.13 this Sunday, but testing of the 6.13 branch will likely be extended by a week due to stability issues in the changes made by a Microsoft employee and accepted into the 6.13 branch in November. It is also noted that the patch causing the crash was submitted non-standardly — but was accepted, despite not receiving any […]
On January 10, after more than a year of development, the release of version 1.15 of the XML parsing library pugixml was announced. Written in C++, this library is distributed under the MIT license. It provides a rich DOM-like interface with extensive features for navigating and modifying document nodes. XPath 1.0 is also supported along with full Unicode support, including automatic encoding conversions. pugixml can be configured for use without std […]
The release of the Rsync file synchronization utility version 3.4.0 has been announced, which fixes six vulnerabilities. A combination of vulnerabilities CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085 allows a client to execute their code on the server. An anonymous connection to the Rsync server with read access is sufficient for an attack. For example, an attack could be carried out on mirrors of various distributions and projects that provide the possibility to download builds through […]
A patch release of Firefox version 134.0.1 is available, which fixes several issues: interface freezes occurring while working in Google Docs or watching YouTube have been eliminated. An error that caused crashes when attempting to start after updating from Firefox version 133 has been fixed. The problem with the malfunctioning context menus and search engine selection menus has been resolved in cases where the user had previously rolled back […]
The release of the library libmdbx version 0.13.3 (MDBX) has been announced, implementing a high-performance, compact embedded key-value database. The code for libmdbx is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. All current operating systems and architectures are supported, including the Russian Elbrus 2000. libmdbx offers a comprehensive API for C++, along with community-supported bindings for languages such as Rust, Haskell, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Nim, […]
The release of version 23.5 of the Debian-based MX Linux distribution has occurred, featuring enhancements from the antiX project and proprietary packages. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system (with systemd optionally) and its own tools for system configuration and installation. In the new release: synchronization with the Debian 12.9 Bookworm package base has been accomplished; package versions have been updated: Linux 6.1.123, XFCE 4.20; the MX Raspberry Pi edition has been updated […]