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Release of Cozystack 0.11, an open PaaS platform based on Kubernetes

The release of the open-source PaaS platform Cozystack 0.11.0, built on Kubernetes, has been published. 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 preparing infrastructure for providing managed services. Cozystack allows running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]

Release of the Tails 6.6 distribution.

The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.6 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on Debian 12, has been formed, delivered with the GNOME 43 desktop and designed for anonymous networking. Anonymous access in Tails is provided through the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by a packet filter. User data is stored in […]

A vulnerability in web browsers that allows attacks on local services via IP 0.0.0.0

Oligo Security has released information about a vulnerability affecting Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, which allows bypassing access restrictions to network services available only on the local system via the IP address 0.0.0.0. The first warnings about this vulnerability were published 18 years ago, yet the issue remains unresolved. The vulnerability manifests only in […]

The RebeccaBlackOS 2024-08-12 distribution is available, featuring a selection of environments based on Wayland.

The release of the RebeccaBlackOS 2024-08-12 distribution has been formed, aimed at introducing the latest developments related to Wayland support in various desktop environments and applications. The distribution is based on Debian and includes fresh builds of Wayland libraries (snapshot from the master branch), the Weston compositor, and pre-configured environments working atop Wayland including KDE, GNOME, Wayfire (with MATE components), Sway, LXQt, and Xfce. […]

The release of Hyprland 0.42, a compositor based on Wayland

The release of the Hyprland 0.42 compositor, utilizing the Wayland protocol, has been published. The compositor is focused on tiling window layouts, but also supports traditional free-form window placement, tabbed window grouping, pseudo-tile mode, and fullscreen window expansion. It supports elements for creating visually appealing interfaces, such as gradients in window frames, blurring, animations, and shadows. For […]

The wcurl utility has been accepted into the Curl project.

Daniel Stenberg, the author of the data transfer utility Curl, announced the acceptance of the wcurl utility into the project. The wcurl utility is now recognized as an official Curl project, but its development will continue by the existing maintainers in a separate repository, independent of Curl. The utility is being developed by one of the maintainer of Debian, who oversees the package with Curl. In […]

Vulnerability in the FreeBSD version of OpenSSH allows for remote code execution.

A vulnerability (CVE-2024-7589) has been identified in the OpenSSH server included with FreeBSD, allowing remote code execution with root privileges without authentication. This vulnerability is a variant of a problem identified in early July in OpenSSH (CVE-2024-6387) and is also caused by a race condition occurring from executing functions not designed for asynchronous calls in signal handlers. The FreeBSD developers have resolved the original […]

The Verso project is developing a web browser based on the Servo engine.

As part of the Verso project, a new web browser is being developed based on the Servo engine. The Verso code, like Servo, is written in Rust and is distributed under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. The browser is still in the early stages of development and, in addition to the web content processing features provided by the Servo engine, implements a simple user interface. Testable builds are being published […]

Cisco will lay off another 4,000 employees and focus on cybersecurity and AI.

Next week, Cisco will announce a new round of layoffs during its quarterly report, in which approximately the same number of employees will be laid off as in the first wave of layoffs in February of this year — about 4,000 people, Reuters reports citing informed sources. According to Cisco’s financial report, as of July 2023, the company […]

Firefox has been ported to Haiku OS.

After more than a year of development, the first working port of the Firefox browser for the open-source Haiku operating system, which continues the ideas of BeOS, has been prepared. Ready-to-install builds are not yet published, and those wishing to use Firefox on Haiku are encouraged to build from the source code. Until now, Haiku offered the WebPositive, Epiphany, and Falkon browsers, which created difficulties due to excessive suspicion […]

Release of Wine 9.15

An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.15 has been published. Since the release of 9.14, 18 bug reports have been closed and 240 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: support for prototypes and object constructors has been added to the MSHTML engine. The support for ODBC drivers compiled for Windows to the DBMS has been expanded. Bug reports related to the operation of applications have been closed: WinProladder 3.x, FTDI […]

To continue the development of the Ladybird browser, it has been decided to use the Swift language.

The developers of the experimental browser Ladybird have announced their intention to use the Swift programming language as the main one for their project. The inclusion of Swift code is planned to begin in the fall, after the release of Swift 6 (using the Swift 5 branch is hindered by the dependency on an outdated version of Clang, which is incompatible with the current C++ codebase of Ladybird). Thanks to the ability to combine C++ code […]

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