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The release of Manjaro Linux 24.1 has taken place, built on the basis of Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro comes in live builds with graphical environments KDE (4.1 GB), GNOME (4 GB), and Xfce (3.8 GB), formed […]
Firefox 131 is now available. Linux: Support for seek and mpris:length for MPRIS has been implemented. Tab previews have been included (when hovering over an inactive tab). The icon that invokes the dropdown list of all open tabs has been changed. Furthermore, the setting allowing it to be hidden has been removed (it can be hidden by adding #alltabs-button { display: none !important; } in userChrome.css). Support for text fragments has been implemented: allows full use of links in […]
After three months of development, the release of version 4.3.0 of the cross-platform screencasting software vokoscreenNG, written in C++ using the Qt6 framework and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, has taken place. Change log: Interface: Redesigned 'magnifying glass' buttons. Fixed the alignment of the help button for the reset all settings switch. CSS has been revised for several interface elements. The text in the audio device list no longer appears pixelated. Fixed […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 131 has occurred, and updates for the previous long-term support branches — 115.16.0 and 128.3.0 have been created. The Firefox 132 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for October 29. Key innovations in Firefox 131: Implemented the ability to grant temporary permissions to websites (e.g., access to location), which expire after the tab is closed or after an hour […]
After six months of development, the FFmpeg 7.1 multimedia package is available, including a set of applications and a collection of libraries for working with various multimedia formats (recording, converting, and decoding audio and video formats). The package is written in C and is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses. Among the changes in FFmpeg 7.1: Added video encoders in H.264 and H.265 formats that utilize graphics API extensions […]
In the vulnerability patch released in early September for the libnv library, a logic error was identified that prevented the vulnerability from being properly fixed, leaving the system susceptible to attacks. The libnv library is developed by the FreeBSD project and is used in the kernel and in base system applications for handling key/value formatted lists and organizing data transfer during inter-process communication. The library […]
On September 20 and 27, versions 4.8.3 and 4.8.4 of the cross-platform document editor LaTeX TeXstudio were released. This editor is written in C++ with the use of the Qt framework (versions 5 and 6 are supported). The change log includes: considering the position of the argument type (fixes some issues related to key-value arguments); fixed the loading of new key-value pairs into the autocomplete system when new text is added to the document […]
On the mailing list, Levente Polyak, the project lead for Arch Linux and head of their security team, announced closer collaboration with Valve: We are pleased to announce that Arch Linux is entering into direct collaboration with Valve. Valve generously supports two key projects of ours that will significantly impact our distribution: infrastructure for […]
After nearly two years of development, the release of BusyBox 1.37 has been announced. This package implements a set of standard UNIX utilities, packaged into a single executable optimized for minimal system resource consumption with a total size of under 1 MB. The first release of the new 1.37 branch is designated as unstable, with full stabilization expected in version 1.37.1, which is anticipated in a few months. […]
The company System76, which develops the Linux distribution Pop!_OS, has begun testing the second alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC based on GNOME Shell). For testing, ISO images for systems with NVIDIA GPUs (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.5 GB) have been provided, built on a test build of the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution. Ready packages are also available […]
Recently published source texts of the multimedia player Winamp have revealed code borrowing distributed under GPL and LGPL licenses. Specifically, among the Winamp code were the file fir_proc.cpp, the BladeMP3 encoder, the in_vorbis plugin, and components of the GNU Bison parser generator, all distributed under the GPL license. Additionally, modified code from the libdiscid 0.6.2 library, distributed under LGPLv2.1, was included. In […]
Oracle has released a patch for the VirtualBox virtualization system, version 7.1.2, which includes 15 fixes: A setting has been added to the user interface to change the method of protecting remote access to the screen. Issues related to the multi-window interface and translations have been resolved. The problem of incomplete removal of virtual machines created in Unattended Install mode has been fixed. The ability to enable 3D acceleration has been added for […]