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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.19 has been published. Since the release of 9.18, 11 bug reports have been closed, and 264 changes have been made. The most significant changes: Unicode character tables have been updated to version 16.0.0. Window positioning has improved in the Wayland driver. The implementation of network session support continues in the DirectPlay API. Notification support for device changes has been added, […]
In the PAM module pam_oath, which is part of the oath-toolkit package and used for two-factor authentication with one-time passwords (OTP), a vulnerability (CVE-2024-47191) has been identified that allows an unprivileged user to gain root access on the system. The pam_oath module runs with root privileges and was originally designed to store OATH keys in the file /etc/users.oath, which is accessible only to the root user. In version 2.6.7 of the oath-toolkit […]
Two weeks ago, a major update of Lagrange, the client for the Gemini network (Wikipedia article, website), was released as a lightweight alternative to the WWW, designed with influences from Gopher but with enhancements such as its own Gemtext markup language and encryption. On September 29, update 1.18.1 was released, fixing several bugs from the previous version. Lagrange is a cross-platform client that uses […]
Firmware Updater, or fwupd, is a project aimed at simplifying and enhancing the reliability of the automatic firmware update process in Linux. By default, code is downloaded from the LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) repository. The project is licensed under LGPLv2.1. Support is provided in the IRC channel #fwupd on LiberaChat and on GitHub. Minor update 1.9.25 was released by developer Richard Hughes on […]
System76, the manufacturer of Linux computers and creator of the COSMIC desktop environment, has updated the COSMIC Alpha version to Alpha 2. The latest version includes more settings pages, an expanded set of features for COSMIC Files, and sought-after window management functions. Significant work has been done on the infrastructure to support screen reading, and several notable bugs have been fixed. The new desktop environment […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.16.0, based on Kubernetes, has been announced. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for managed services. Cozystack allows running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
On September 27, the Document Foundation announced that the second bug-fix update for LibreOffice 24.8 includes fixes for over eighty bugs, crashes, and regressions. LibreOffice is a free office suite continuing the development of OpenOffice.org, comprising a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet application (Calc), a presentation editor (Impress), and a database (Base). Compared to OOo, support for Microsoft formats has been improved […]
On September 26, three months after the release of 4.4.0 (which by default transitioned to Qt 6 and GTK 4, added the Background Music plugin, returned the Lyrics plugin for displaying song lyrics in the GTK interface, added support for the Disc Number tag, and the linear volume scale PipeWire), a bug-fix release of the Audacious music player version 4.4.1 was made, continuing the development of XMMS […]
Last week, the nicotine-plus update took place, a GUI client for the peer-to-peer Soulseek network (official website, Wikipedia), designed for music sharing via user uploads. The goal of the project is to create a free, lightweight, and functional alternative to the official proprietary Soulseek client, which is written in Qt. The nicotine-plus development uses the Python3 programming language and GTK graphical toolkit. The application includes an interface for managing download progress and […]
The stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings has been published — NetworkManager 1.50.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, and others) are developed through their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.50: The support for the 'dhclient' utility has been deprecated and disabled at the build stage, with the built-in DHCP client recommended instead, which has been default since NetworkManager 1.20 […]
On September 30, the Ladybird browser outperformed the Servo engine in the number of successfully passed tests from the web-platform-tests suite, which determines compatibility with the reference web platform. In particular, Servo successfully passes 1,303,211 checks, Ladybird — 1,518,672, Firefox 131 — 1,805,845, Safari 204dev — 1,812,433, Chromium 131 — 1,862,747. The web-platform-tests are formulated within the Interop initiative, jointly promoted by Google, Mozilla, Apple, […]
The release of the main branch of nginx 1.27.2 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The parallelly maintained stable branch 1.26.x receives only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, a 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: […]