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Oracle has released the Solaris 11.4 SRU 69 (Support Repository Update), which includes a series of significant changes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply run the command 'pkg update'. Users can also take advantage of the free Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment), developed using a continuous publication model of new […]
Google has scheduled June 3 as the start of the process to end support for the second version of the Chrome manifest, which defines the capabilities and resources available for extensions written using the WebExtensions API. Initially, support for the second version of the manifest was planned to end in January 2023, but the deadlines have been postponed several times. Starting on June 3, in the Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary branches […]
Microsoft has announced the development of a graphical configurator for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), a layer for running Linux applications on Windows. The configurator will simplify the setup of WSL to meet user needs and will allow management and viewing of various WSL parameters without the need to manually edit the '.wslconfig' file. The main problem with '.wslconfig' is the difficulty in understanding which settings are available and which […]
Canonical has announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 builds, optimized for performing tasks in real-time. These builds use the Linux 6.8 kernel with RT patches ('Realtime-Preempt', PREEMPT_RT, or '-rt'), which ensure reduced latencies and allow for predictable event processing times. The builds also include optimizations aimed at boosting performance and reducing latencies on Raspberry Pi boards […]
Lasse Collin, the longtime maintainer of the xz project who transferred rights to the new maintainer Jia Tan in 2022, whose actions led to the introduction of the backdoor, has released corrected versions of the XZ Utils packages 5.2.13, 5.4.7, and 5.6.2, in which backdoor components and other suspicious changes made as a result of the previous maintainer's malicious activity have been removed. Additionally, a review report has been published […]
The release of the Apache NetBeans 22 integrated development environment has been announced, providing support for programming languages such as Java SE, Java EE, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript, Rust, and Groovy. Ready builds will soon be available for Linux (snap, flatpak), Windows, and macOS. Among the proposed changes: The user interface now displays information about the hotkeys for performing standard operations. Icons have been updated […]
Another release of Apache NetBeans has been announced – an integrated development environment supporting programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and more. The IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. In this release: the development environment now requires a minimum JDK version of 17 for proper operation; improved support for build systems like Gradle and Maven; enhanced support for Java languages, […]
The next release of the 'Alt Virtualization' 10.2 distribution is now available on the 10 platform (branch p10 Aronia). The build is prepared for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures. Download the image from download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru ftp.altlinux.org In the new image: System environment based on Linux kernel un-def-6.1.85 and systemd 249.17. PVE 7.4: Dark theme for the web interface. Sorting of virtual machines and containers by name. Expanded capabilities of the cluster resource scheduler CRS. […]
The FreeBSD Foundation has published the results (PDF, 62 pages) of a survey conducted among users and developers of the project aimed at understanding the state of the community, identifying typical use cases of FreeBSD, prioritizing development efforts, and pinpointing areas needing special attention. The survey, which included about 50 questions, had 1,446 participants. Identified trends: 50% of users utilize FreeBSD on servers, while 18% use it on […]
The Wine project has released version 1.12 of the vkd3d package, which implements Direct3D 12, functioning through call translation in the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes the libvkd3d libraries for Direct3D 12 implementation, 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 glxgears port […]
The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical development of the Fedora Linux distribution, has approved an exception to the rules that allows distributing executables and libraries compiled for macOS within the installer package asahi-installer. The exception was granted at the request of developers of the Fedora Asahi Remix edition, aimed at installation on Mac computers equipped with Apple Silicon ARM chips. Instead of […]
Five years after the formation of branch 2.0, the release of HAProxy 3.0 has been published, which allows distributing HTTP traffic and arbitrary TCP requests among a group of servers, taking into account multiple factors (e.g., checking server availability, assessing load levels, and having DDoS mitigation capabilities) and performing preliminary data filtering (e.g., HTTP headers can be parsed, invalid request parameters can be filtered out, SQL injection can be blocked, and […]