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On November 6, after six months of development, version 2.25 of the simple and highly reliable distributed cross-platform configuration management system Fossil SCM was released. It is written in C and uses SQLite as the storage database. For extended functionality, it can be compiled with built-in support for TCL. Besides version control, fossil repositories can optionally include a forum, wiki, bug tracker, and chat – all in one […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.27.3 has been presented, continuing to develop new features. The parallelly supported stable branch 1.26.x only receives updates related to serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, the stable branch 1.28 will be formed based on the main branch 1.27.x. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. Changes include: […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 133 has occurred, along with updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.18.0 and 128.5.0. The Firefox 134 branch has entered beta testing, with a release planned for January 7. Key innovations in Firefox 133: In the enhanced tracking protection (ETP) mode, protection against tracking through redirects has been enabled […]
The release of the Startwine-Launcher 407 application has been published, developed for running programs and games compiled for Windows on Linux systems. The main goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process for beginners to create Wine prefixes — sets of libraries and dependencies required for Windows applications to work on Linux. The code for StartWine-Launcher is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]
The Blender Foundation has released version 4.3 of the free 3D modeling package Blender, suitable for various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation creation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds have been prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. At the same time, corrective releases of Blender 4.2.4 and 3.6.18 have been prepared […]
The release of GNU Wget2 2.2.0 has been announced, which develops a rewritten and completely revamped version of the GNU Wget program for automating recursive content downloading. Wget2 provides a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows access to available functionality through the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, enables downloading only changed data, and can save data with […]
A new version of FRRouting – a software package for building routers based on Linux or BSD systems – is now available. Key changes in this version include: In the built-in implementation of the multicast routing daemon pimd, message filtering for MSDP SA is now implemented, which is applied during inter-provider interactions via multicast. An automatic RP search configuration is available. Authentication through MD5 is supported in the built-in implementation of pim […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs filesystem, reported that the future of his developing filesystem in the kernel is in question due to actions by the committee responsible for enforcing the code of conduct among developers (CoC Committee). Linus Torvalds refused to accept another batch of patches for Bcachefs into the 6.13 kernel branch, citing complaints from the CoC committee. After several […]
Amazon and the Rust Foundation have introduced an initiative aimed at enhancing the security of the standard Rust language library. The goal is to verify the reliability and safety of functions that use the 'unsafe' keyword, which allows unsafe operations with memory, such as dereferencing pointers, modifying static variables, and accessing external libraries in C/C++. It is noted that currently the standard […]
A change has been made to the codebase for the upcoming release of the GCC 15 compiler suite scheduled for spring next year, which includes the default use of the C23 standard with GNU extensions ('-std=gnu23') when compiling programs in the C language (previously, the default standard was C17 – '-std=gnu17'). This change could potentially lead to issues when building existing projects, as […]
On November 23, 2024, the release of the new version of the popular tool for running Windows applications on other operating systems, Wine 9.22, took place. In this version, the developers included the Wayland driver by default and introduced several significant updates and fixes. Key changes include support for virtualization of display modes. This innovation allows for improved compatibility and performance of applications running in various display modes. […]
After four years of development, the MaXX Interactive Desktop 2.2.0 has been released, which is positioned as the first alpha release of a project aiming to recreate the IRIX Interactive Desktop (SGI Indigo Magic Desktop) user interface using Linux technologies. The development is conducted under an agreement with SGI, allowing for the complete recreation of all features of the IRIX Interactive Desktop for the Linux platform. Installation instructions have been prepared […]