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A year after the release of its last major version, the Thunderbird 128 email client, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies, has been launched. Thunderbird 128 is built on the ESR release codebase of Firefox 128 and is classified as a long-term support version, receiving updates for a year. Key changes in Thunderbird 128 include the addition of component development capabilities […]
Six years after the last release, Automake 1.17 has been launched, a utility for automatically generating makefiles that comply with GNU project coding standards. In this new version, the parameter AM_PATH_PYTHON has been changed to prioritize Python 3 instead of Python 2 when both branches are present in the system. It also adds support for Python versions newer than 3.9. The py-compile script has deprecated […]
In addition to the sleek foldable smartphones Magic V3 and Magic Vs3, Honor today introduced two new tablets in China — the MagicPad 2 with a 12.3-inch display and a sub-flagship Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, as well as the 12.1-inch Honor Pad 9 Pro powered by a robust mid-range Dimensity 8100 chip. Unlike last year’s MagicPad 13 with an LCD display, the new […]
Colin Percival, the leader of the FreeBSD release preparation team, announced changes to the release development and maintenance processes. Starting with the FreeBSD 15 branch, slated for late 2025, the maintenance period for major branches after the first release (15.0) will be reduced from 5 to 4 years. Meanwhile, new major branches will be created every […]
Researchers from JFrog discovered an admin access token to Python repositories, PyPI, and the Python Software Foundation on GitHub within the Docker image 'cabotage-app'. The token was found in the binary file '__pycache__/build.cpython-311.pyc' containing cached compiled bytecode. According to representatives from the PyPI repository, the token was created in 2023 for developer ewdurbin (Ee Durbin), who holds […]
The release of version 1.0.0 of the C++ Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) has taken place. This is a cross-platform library for managing graphics processing units. It provides a unified low-level cross-platform interface over various graphics APIs. Supported rendering backends include: Metal 2+, OpenGL 2.x (requiring GL_ARB_framebuffer_object), OpenGL 3.1+, OpenGL ES 2.0+, Vulkan 1.1, and WebGL 2.0. Supported platforms are: Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and WebAssembly. The library […]
The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.2, implemented as a wrapper over the packet filters nftables and iptables, has been formulated. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic changes to firewall rules via D-Bus, without the need to reload the firewall rules or disconnect established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
Meta* has released the IGL 1.0 (Intermediate Graphics Library), a graphics library that provides a universal low-level API for managing GPUs. The proposed API encompasses typical GPU functionality and allows for the creation of cross-platform applications that can operate on top of the graphical APIs OpenGL, Metal, and Vulkan on systems with Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows, as well as utilize WebGL for rendering in the Web […]
The 0.10.0 release of the high-performance library yyjson, written in C (C89 standard), has been announced. It is distributed under the MIT license and is designed for reading and modifying data in JSON format (RFC 8259). The library also supports RFC JSON Pointer, JSON Patch, and JSON Merge Patch. Change list: added the function yyjson_locate_pos() to obtain the line and column number in case of parsing error; improvements […]
After eight months of development, the release of the Exim mail server 4.98 has been published, incorporating accumulated fixes and added new features. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2+ license. According to the automated survey conducted in June of approximately 400,000 mail servers, Exim holds a share of 59.06% (up from 55.93% a year ago), while Postfix is used on 34.68% (down from 37.40%) of mail servers […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 has been published, designed for quick disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 457MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast. Booting from CD/DVD is possible […]
The Ænix team has introduced a new project, etcd-await-election, which enables the 'leader election' operation across multiple nodes using the distributed storage etcd, ensuring that only one instance of the process runs in cluster environments. The project continues the development of the k8s-await-election idea, guaranteeing the exclusive launch of a user process only after the election of the leading service instance, but unlike it, does not […]