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Release of Grml 2024.12, a live distribution for system administrators

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The release of the Live distribution grml 2024.12 has been announced, offering a selection of tools for performing tasks commonly encountered by system administrators (data recovery after a crash, incident analysis, etc.), as well as for processing text data using the texttools package. The distribution is based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and celebrated its twentieth anniversary at the end of October. The graphical environment is built using the window manager […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.39 with support for experimental protocols.

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The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.39 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols undergo phases of development, testing, and stabilization. After the development stage (category 'unstable') is completed, the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols package, and after the completion of […]

The ScyllaDB database has transitioned from AGPL to a proprietary license.

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The developers of the ScyllaDB database management system announced the transition of the project to a proprietary license, limiting its application scope. The ScyllaDB 6.2.x branch will be the last available under the AGPL license. Interested parties can create a fork and continue developing the ScyllaDB codebase under the old license if they wish. Previously, the ScyllaDB project followed an Open Core development model, wherein the basic part of the product is developed under a free license, […]

29 vulnerabilities have been identified in the GStreamer multimedia framework.

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In the multimedia framework GStreamer, used in GNOME, 29 vulnerabilities have been identified. Eight vulnerabilities lead to out-of-bounds data writes, and one (CVE-2024-47540) leads to a function pointer overwrite. These vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute code while processing improperly formatted multimedia data in MKV, MP4, Ogg, Vorbis, and Opus formats, as well as subtitles in […]

Release of Angie 1.8.0, a fork of Nginx

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The high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server Angie 1.8.0 has been introduced, branching from Nginx by a group of former developers who left F5 Network. The source code of Angie is available under the BSD license. The project has received compatibility certificates with Russian operating systems Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt, and the FSTEC versions of Alt. The development is supported by the company 'Web Server', established […]

The Overture Maps project has published an open map of road networks

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The non-profit project Overture Maps, operating under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, has released the 'Transportation' map database, noted as the first suitable for widespread use. The database includes information on 86 million kilometers of roads worldwide and is already used in applications by Microsoft, Meta, and TomTom. The complete archive of the database in GeoParquet format is about 500 GB, and […]

ScyllaDB transitions to a non-free license

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The developers of the NoSQL database ScyllaDB have decided to stop publishing code under the AGPL and will switch to a non-free open-source license (BSL) starting with a new release in 2025. It is worth noting that ScyllaDB is a clone of the Cassandra database, rewritten in C++ (the original is in Java) and offers significantly higher performance. Currently, ScyllaDB has two licensing options: fully open […]

Release of the NetBSD 10.1 operating system

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The release of the NetBSD 10.1 operating system is available, supporting 58 system architectures and 16 CPU families. In addition to portability and support for numerous hardware platforms, the NetBSD operating system offers features such as the NVMM hypervisor, NPF firewall, pkgin package manager, pkgsrc package repository, veriexec integrity checking mechanism, and W^X mode (memory pages cannot be simultaneously writable […]

BoN has been published, a method for bypassing filters of large language models

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A new attack method has been identified that can bypass the countermeasures against the generation of harmful content employed in AI services based on large language models. The method, codenamed BoN (Best-of-N), managed to bypass the model restrictions of GPT-4o in 89% of cases, Claude 3.5 Sonnet in 78%, and Gemini Pro in 50% during tests on 10,000 queries. The toolkit for […]

another.im 1.0.1

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As usual, a new version of the actively developed XMPP client fork Conversationsā€”another.imā€”was quietly released. Changes from the previous version: At the request of upstream, we changed the name from Conversations Classic to another.im to avoid confusion. OTR chats have been implemented as secret chats. The ability to create an account on our server another.im through the app (and more). Bug fixes and interface improvements. […]

Release of the Kali Linux 2024.4 distribution for security research

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The release of Kali Linux 2024.4 has been announced, based on the Debian package base and designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting security audits, analyzing residual information, and assessing the consequences of attacks. All original developments created for the distribution are licensed under GPL and available through a public Git repository. ISO images sized 600 MB and 4.1 GB are prepared for download. Builds […]

Release of Alt Workstation 10.4

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An update is available for the "Alt Workstation" operating system 10.4. The build has been prepared for x86_64, AArch64, i586 and "Elbrus" 10. Download the image: download.basealt.ru ftp.altlinux.org New features and updates: The package base, drivers, and utilities for printers and scanners have been updated. LibreOffice 24.2, Scribus 1.6, CUPS 2.4, and the email client Thunderbird 115.16 are used for document work. Web browsers have been updated: Firefox 115.16, Chromium-Gost 125, […]

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