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Canonical has released the first corrective release of the Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS distribution, which includes updates for several hundred packages related to the elimination of vulnerabilities and issues affecting stability. The new version also fixes bugs in the installer and bootloader. The release of Ubuntu 24.04.1 marks the completion of basic stabilization of the LTS release — users of the previous LTS branch, Ubuntu 22.04, will now be prompted to […]
A new version of the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer has been released, proudly numbered 5.0. Key changes and enhancements include new commands and features: auth [on|off]: introduction of a password protection command; status [top|up|down|bottom] [left|right]: ability to move status messages to any corner of the screen (default is bottom left); truecolor [on|off]: support for 24-bit colors. multiinput: support for input in multiple windows simultaneously. […]
The Wine project has released the vkd3d 1.13 package with the implementation of Direct3D 12, working through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, along with a set of demonstration examples, including the port of glxgears […]
The release of the nxs-backup 3.11.0 backup tool has been published, allowing the creation of backups, their rotation, and storage on local or external storage. In addition to file backups, it supports creating backups of various databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Backups can be stored both locally and in remote storage (S3, FTP, SSH, […]
In the codebase for the scheduled release of Firefox 131 on October 1, support for the Text Fragments mechanism is enabled by default, allowing the creation of external links to navigate to specific positions in the text on a page without adding anchors. <a name> and without relying on element IDs. The position is determined using the built-in functionality within the link [...].
The release of 4MLinux 46.0 is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and utilizes a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks but also as a recovery system and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and [...])
Two and a half years after the last significant release, the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 5.0.0 has been released, allowing users to organize a multi-window interface in the console using a single physical terminal to work with multiple applications, each assigned its own virtual terminal, which remains active across different user sessions. Among the changes: The authentication mechanism has been rewritten. To enable authentication and [...]
Fooyin is an audio player created in Qt6 in the style of Foobar2000. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is licensed under GNU GPL 3. Fooyin offers a wide range of customization options for managing and playing your music collection. It can be extended with plugins and the FooScript language. Sound playback is supported by FFmpeg along with several output options, [...]
Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn reported the migration of the majority of its servers, virtual machines, and containers from CentOS to the Azure Linux distribution. In addition to addressing the issue of the discontinued support for the CentOS 7 branch during the migration, security improvements to the infrastructure, cost reductions, enhanced flexibility in configuration, and simplification of the deployment of new capabilities based on [...].
Microsoft has announced the transfer of the Mono project, which develops an alternative implementation of the .NET platform, to the WineHQ organization, which develops an open implementation of the Win32 API. Microsoft obtained the Mono project after acquiring Xamarin in 2016. The Mono platform was intended to develop tools for mobile application development in C# using .NET technologies, but […]
After 11 months of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.26.14 has been published, which develops a fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system that has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and addressing problems identified during the TrueCrypt source audit. The code developed by VeraCrypt […]
The developers of the instant messaging client Pidgin, which supports networks like Jabber/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr, have announced the detection of malicious code in the ss-otr (ScreenShareOTR) plugin, present in the community-developed plugin directory. The plugin was uploaded to the directory on July 6, distributed only in binary form, and added functionality to Pidgin […]