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After a year of development, the RPM package manager 4.20.0 has been released. The RPM4 project is developed by Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. A significant branch, RPM 6, is expected to be published next year, featuring a new format […]
The new release of Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' is an interim version with a 9-month support period, announced to be supported until July 2025. Alongside Ubuntu, official editions with other desktop environments have been released, with the most interesting being Kubuntu 24.10, which has switched to KDE Plasma 6 technologies (as shown in the screenshot). Key changes for Ubuntu include an updated desktop to GNOME 47 […]
Microsoft has proposed a first series of patches for inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel related to its operation as a host environment (Dom0, root partition) for the Hyper-V hypervisor. The host environment is responsible for managing the hypervisor, organizing the boot of guest systems, allocating resources, and ensuring communication between virtual machines and the hardware. Initially, the possibility of using Linux as a host environment for the Hyper-V virtualization system was […]
Developers of the Asahi Linux project, which is porting Linux for Apple Mac computers with ARM chips, have introduced a toolkit for running modern computer games in Linux environments running on systems with Apple M1 chips. This concerns AAA-class games available in the Steam catalog and compiled for the x86_64 architecture. The toolkit ensures the integration of drivers created by the project that implement the Vulkan 1.3 and OpenCL APIs […]
The release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" has been announced, classified as an interim release with updates provided for 9 months (support will continue until July 2025). Installation images are available for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin (the edition for China), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. The key […]
The release of the Deno 2.0 platform has been announced, designed for the secure execution of server applications in JavaScript and TypeScript, utilizing the V8 engine used in Chromium-based browsers. The Deno project is led by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, aiming to provide a more secure environment and correct the conceptual errors found in Node.js architecture. To enhance security, the wrapper around the engine […]
Corrective releases for Firefox 131.0.2, Firefox ESR 115.16.1, Firefox ESR 128.3.1, and Tor Browser 13.5.7 have been published, addressing a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-9680) that allows for code execution at the content processing level when opening specially crafted pages. The vulnerability is caused by accessing already freed memory (use-after-free) in the implementation of the AnimationTimeline API, used for synchronizing and precisely controlling animated effects […]
Troy Hunt, the creator of the compromised password checking service 'Have I Been Pwned' (haveibeenpwned.com), received information about a leak of the user database from the Internet Archive (archive.org), which maintains an archive of website states and the largest library of digitized content. The attackers provided Troy with a SQL dump that includes accounts of 31 million users from archive.org. Additionally, JavaScript code has been injected into the site archive.org, displaying a popup […]
On September 26, developers announced the release of version 0.270 of the free software package MAME. MAME is primarily aimed at running arcade games, but it also supports the emulation of older devices of various classes. Specifically, the release 0.270 adds support for one of the first PDA devices released to the market. The Zoomer PDA was designed by Casio and was released under various names. The device was equipped with […]
After four years of development, the release of XCP-ng 8.3 has been published, advancing a free and open-source alternative to the proprietary XenServer platform for deploying cloud infrastructure and managing its operations. XCP-ng recreates the functionality that Citrix removed from the free version of Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer starting with version 7.3, allowing for the quick deployment of server and workstation virtualization systems, offering tools for centralized […]
The GNOME Foundation has announced cost optimization efforts to balance income and expenses. In recent years, the organization has experienced significant overspending; for example, in the 2023 fiscal year, the organization received $556,000 and spent $676,000 (overspending of $120,000), while in 2022, the project received $363,000 and spent $649,000 (overspending of $286 […]
The release of the free boot firmware Libreboot 20241008 has been published, which holds the status of an experimental release focused on enhancing functionality (stable releases generally contain fixes and are published approximately once a year, with the last stable release being in June). The project develops a ready-made build from the Coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware that is responsible for initializing CPU, memory, peripherals, and […]