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On December 29, 2024, the next version of the Amarok audio player from the KDE project was released. This version added support for builds with Qt6 (although the use of Qt5 is still recommended), filtering collections by missing/empty tags, as well as default display of the track context applet. Several bugs have been fixed. Source: linux.org.ru
Cloudflare has announced the release of the open-source h3i toolkit, which includes a command-line utility and a library for low-level testing and debugging of HTTP/3 server implementations. The utility can be used to evaluate the behavior of HTTP/3 servers, determine compliance with specification requirements, and test responses to edge cases. The utility's code is written in Rust and is licensed under the BSD license. […]
After three years of development and a year and a half since the first alpha version was released, the Chimera Linux distribution has entered the beta testing phase. This distribution is notable for its use of the Linux kernel combined with utilities from FreeBSD, the dinit system manager, and the Musl standard C library. The build is handled by the Clang compiler. The project is founded by Nina Kolesa from Igalia, who is involved […]
On December 28, after more than two years of hiatus, version 2.5.0 of the TUI creation library termbox2, written in C and distributed under the MIT license, was released. Compared to the original termbox, the simple API and lack of dependencies apart from libc have been preserved, but new features include: stricter error checking; more efficient parsing of escape sequences; optional support for 32-bit color; improved Unicode grapheme support; […]
After more than a year of development, version 0.8.3 of the xxHash library has been released, implementing high-performance non-cryptographic hash algorithms. The library and command-line utility are written in C and distributed under the BSD 2 license. What's new: A bug in the XXH3_128bits_withSecretandSeed() function has been fixed, which caused incorrect results in some cases. An optimized implementation for LoongArch SX has been added. Now, the xxhsum command-line utility automatically detects and […]
Recently, the first version of Ghostty was released, one of the fastest terminal emulators available. Reddit and many related channels on YouTube have already dubbed it the best. The project has garnered over 15k ⭐ on GitHub in a short time. Features: Multi-platform. Written in the increasingly popular programming language Zig. Utilizes a native UI (requires GTK 4 on Linux) and GPU acceleration. […]
At the conference, a presentation was made detailing the reverse engineering of the firmware and command system of TI SimpleLink chips (CC13XX and CC26XX) with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) support, which enabled the implementation of an FM receiver. An analog transmitter may not be feasible since the chips are strictly digital. The chips utilize DSP, and the main ARM Cortex core controls the radio core (RF Core) Arm Cortex-M0, which provides […]
A new release of the APT 2.9.20 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been published. The 2.9.x branch is experimental and is used for developing features for the upcoming stable version APT 3.0, which will be integrated into Debian Testing after stabilization and will be included in the next major Debian release, as well as added to the Ubuntu package repository. Changes since the last announcement: APT 2.9.16: […]
Hello, LOR! The beta version of the quite interesting distribution Chimera Linux has been released. Unlike other distributions, Chimera is distinguished by the absence of GNU utilities and libraries and the use of code from BSD systems. It is built using LLVM and musl with the mimalloc allocator from Microsoft. Dinit serves as the initialization system. The default desktop environment is GNOME. The package manager for the distribution is APK (from […]
The release of the IvorySQL 4.0 project has been published, developing an edition of PostgreSQL that ensures compatibility with applications designed for Oracle DBMS. IvorySQL claims to work as a transparent replacement for the latest version of PostgreSQL, differing primarily by the addition of the 'compatible_db' setting, which includes compatibility mode with Oracle. The code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.21.0, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for providing managed services. Cozystack allows for running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The developers of the Bottles program, which offers an interface to simplify the installation, configuration, and running of Windows applications on Linux, have published information about the development of the Bottles Next initiative, aimed at a complete revamp of the project's architecture and codebase. It is noted that the existing monolithic application written in Python with a GTK interface does not allow for many ideas to be implemented, such as macOS support, limits capabilities, and leads to […]