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Hello, LOR! As our experts predicted, the latest release of the Linux OS distribution NixOS 24.05, code-named 'Uakari', occurred on the last day of spring. NixOS features a declarative approach to software installation, allowing users to describe the desired state of the OS using the special Nix configuration language, and includes characteristics such as atomic system updates and reproducible builds. Among the changes in this release […]
An engineer from Intel, Noah Goldstein, has optimized the memset() function in the glibc library. This optimization provides a performance boost of about 7.5% on desktop versions of Skylake-X and Ice Lake architecture processors. The performance gain is slightly lower for server versions, primarily due to the lower overall performance of a single core. The previous implementation of the memset() function used the assembly instruction rep stosb. […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently discovered issue in the Linux kernel to its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-1086 Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability. This concerns the nf_tables component within the built-in netfilter firewall, which can be exploited for local privilege escalation. The error is related to improper interaction […]
Broadcom has archived the source code repository for the Greenplum database on GitHub, along with related utilities and projects, effectively halting collaborative development of this open-source product with the community. No comments have been made by the company. It is expected that further development of Greenplum will take place as a closed commercial project, VMware Tanzu Greenplum. The database […]
The release of the Eleventh ALT p11 platform (Salvia) has taken place. In the new stable branch, package builds are provided for the following architectures: x86_64; i586; aarch64; Elbrus: e2k (v3, 4C) and e2kv4 (8C/1C+), as well as e2kv5 (8CV) and the new e2kv6. The repository will retain multilib support for x86_64. A branch for 32-bit architectures mipsel, armh (armv7a), and 64-bit ppc64le is not being created. The platform is intended for development, […]
The release of Rocky Linux 8.10 distribution has been announced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS, after Red Hat prematurely ended support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, rather than in 2029 as originally planned. Rocky Linux builds are prepared for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, builds for cloud […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.10 — has taken place. Since the release of 9.9, 18 bug reports have been closed and 254 changes made. The most important changes include: the built-in Vkd3d package with Direct3D 12 implementation has been updated to version 1.12. DPI Awareness mode support has been improved for better application display on high pixel density screens, taking into account […]
A new version of the popular desktop environment GNOME 46.2 has been released, which includes numerous updates and enhancements for various modules such as Glib, GNOME Shell, Adwaita icons, and much more. Key changes in GNOME 46.2 include an update of Evince, the document viewer, to version 46.3, featuring translation updates in Hindi, Greek, Hungarian, and Portuguese. A critical typo has been fixed in […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings — NetworkManager 1.48.0 — has been presented. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are being developed within their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.48: The build system based on the autotools package has been deprecated. It is now recommended to use the meson toolkit for building NetworkManager. The mac-address-blacklist property, which allows for blacklisting, has been deprecated […]
In the Fedora 41 release, it is proposed to remove the network-scripts package, which supports traditional scripts for network configuration based on the ifup and ifdown commands. Such scripts have been deprecated since 2018. The reason for their removal is the plans to eliminate ISC DHCP, which has not been maintained since the end of 2022. The content of network-scripts is heavily tied to ISC DHCP and […]
After nearly three years of development, the ALT Linux Team and Basalt SPO have published the 'Eleventh ALT Platform' (p11, codename 'Salvia') — a new stable branch of ALT repositories based on the Sisyphus free software repository. The platform is intended for the development, testing, distribution, updating, and support of comprehensive solutions at all levels — from embedded devices to enterprise servers and […]
After more than a year of development, the stable release of the Wayland 1.23 protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries has been presented. The 1.23 branch is backwards compatible on the API and ABI levels with 1.x releases and mainly includes bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The project is distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]