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Lansweeper is anticipating the end of support for CentOS 7, which expires on June 30. The company analyzed distributions used on 200,000 scanned Linux systems (the method of selecting these systems for review is not specified; it is likely that statistics were gathered from systems in corporate clients' networks using Lansweeper's inventory platform). The most popular distribution was Ubuntu, accounting for 32.24%. The second place went to […]
In the release of Fedora 41, it has been proposed to transition the Anaconda installer to the Wayland protocol. Currently, Anaconda uses the X11 protocol, which prevents the removal of dependencies that support X11 from installation media. Since migrating Anaconda to Wayland is not a trivial task, it is expected that this change will affect the capabilities of the installer. For instance, a revision of the remote installation process will be required, which […]
The GNU Project has introduced the release of the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 0.11, which provides anonymity for buyers while preserving the ability to identify sellers to ensure transparency in tax reporting. The system does not allow tracking information about where the user spends money, but provides means for tracking incoming funds (the sender remains anonymous), addressing issues related to tax audits faced by BitCoin. The code […]
A vulnerability has been identified in PHP (CVE-2024-4577) that allows code execution on the server or viewing the source code of PHP scripts when PHP is used in CGI mode on Windows platforms (configurations with mod_php, php-fpm, and FastCGI are not vulnerable). The issue has been resolved in PHP releases 8.3.8, 8.2.20, and 8.1.29. This vulnerability is a specific case of an issue fixed in 2012, CVE-2012-1823, […]
The OpenSSH codebase has added built-in protection against automated brute-force attacks, where bots attempt to guess the user's password by trying various common combinations. To block such attacks, the sshd_config configuration file now includes the PerSourcePenalties parameter, which allows you to set a blocking threshold that triggers after a large number of failed connection attempts from a single IP address. This new protection mechanism will be included in […]
Nxs-data-anonymizer 1.6.0 has been released — a tool for anonymizing dumps of PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB/Percona databases. This tool is written in Go and released under the Apache License 2.0. The utility supports data anonymization based on templates and functions from the Sprig library. Nxs-data-anonymizer can be used via unnamed pipes in the command line to redirect the dump from the source database directly to the target […]
The messenger has introduced a special currency for purchasing e-books, online courses, and other digital goods from bots and mini-apps. Thanks to the new 'Stars' system, Telegram's vast audience will gain access to digital content purchases. The currency complies with the requirements of the App Store and Google Play. Image source: Telegram Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of the Tesseract 5.4.0 optical character recognition system has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. Results can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally developed between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory of Hewlett Packard, in […]
Developers from Red Hat have begun forming builds of CentOS Stream 10 and created a repository with packages signed with a digital signature. The presented branch is used for the development of the significant upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. CentOS Stream allows early access to the features of the future RHEL branch but includes packages that are not fully stabilized yet. Builds of CentOS Stream 10 […]
The release of the blendOS 4 distribution has been announced, utilizing container isolation to ensure coexistence of packages from various Linux distributions within a single system. In addition to packages from the Arch Linux distribution, which is used in the base environment, and universal packages in Flatpak format, there is the option to install packages from Fedora 39, Debian 13 (testing branch), CentOS Stream, and Ubuntu 22.04 (packages are installed in […]
Developers from the KDE project have introduced the release of the note-taking application KleverNotes 1.0, which is built using the Kirigami framework and can be used on both desktops and mobile devices. When writing notes, it is suggested to use Markdown formatting, the results of which are displayed immediately in the preview area. Additionally, a task list (TODO) mode is supported, along with the insertion of basic […]
Debian developer Luca Boccassi has announced the transition of Debian to using tmpfs in /tmp and the cleaning of /tmp and /var/tmp by default on a timer, starting with Debian 13 'Trixie'. In the new systems, files in /tmp will either disappear along with the previous instance of tmpfs in memory after a restart, or will be removed daily by timer if they are older than 10 [...]