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On May 17, the 59th release of the Thorium browser was held, based on the source code of Chromium 124.0.6367.218. Major changes include: restored support for audio in AC3/E-AC3 format; WebRTC can now use H.265/HEVC codecs. Unlike Chromium, this feature is available in Thorium even without hardware decoding; a patch to protect against digital fingerprinting has been applied; the flag chrome://flags#side-panel-journeys has been added to enable/disable Journeys in […]
fooyin – an audio player created in Qt6 in the style of Foobar2000. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is licensed under the GNU GPL 3. fooyin is an audio player designed with customization in mind. It offers a constantly growing list of widgets for managing and playing your local music collection. It can be extended with plugins and the language […]
Developers of the openSUSE project have released the Agama 8 installer (formerly D-Installer), designed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE, notable for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama allows the use of various front-ends, such as a front-end for managing installation through a web interface. Live builds for the x86_64, ppc64le, s390x, and ARM64 architectures have been created for testing the new installer, supporting […]
A port of the Arch Linux distribution for RISC-V architecture systems has been released. The port is not yet official, but its creator, Felix Yan, is among the key developers and maintainers of Arch Linux. The short-term goal of the project is to prepare patches for packages with source texts that address issues with their build and operation on RISC-V systems. In the future […]
Igor Pavlov has announced a significant version of the 7-Zip archiver, 24.05. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the LGPL license. Ready-made builds for Windows and Linux are available for i686, x86-64, and ARM 32/64 architectures. Unfortunately, most distributions still ship the outdated p7zip, which is over 7 years old. Likely due to the fact that the 7z code […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 2.0, aimed at preserving user data privacy, is now available. The platform is based on Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project provides firmware for many popular smartphone models, and offers smartphone editions under the brands Murena One, Murena 2, Murena Fairphone 4/5, Murena Teracube 2e, and Murena Pixel 5, including models from OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and […]
An experimental release of the open-source Win32 API implementation — Wine 9.9 has occurred. Since the release of version 9.8, 38 bug reports have been closed and 246 changes have been made. Key changes include: ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) library support has been ensured with the WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows) mode, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run in 64-bit Unix systems. Improved CPU detection has been implemented on ARM architecture platforms. Additionally […]
On May 15, the 0.13 release of the trurl console utility, written in C using the libcurl library, was announced. The utility is designed for parsing and other manipulations with URLs. trurl — is a tool in the spirit of tr, but for URLs: $ trurl —url https://www.linux.org.ru/help/rules.md —get ‘{path}’ /help/rules.md $ trurl —url https://www.linux.org.ru —append path=forum https://www.linux.org.ru/forum Changelog: freeing allocated memory when […]
OpenSSH developers have begun separating sshd into several standalone executables. The first step involved adding a change to the OpenSSH codebase that extracts the sshd-session process, which handles session management tasks. The sshd process retains functions responsible for accepting network connections, checking configurations, loading host keys, and managing processes according to the MaxStartups parameter. As such […]
Google has released the second beta version of the open mobile platform Android 15. The release of Android 15 is expected in the third quarter of 2024. A pre-testing program has been proposed to evaluate new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 7/7a/7 Pro, Pixel 8/8 Pro, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet devices, as well as for certain smartphones and tablets from […]
After five months of development, version 24.05 of the 7-Zip library and command-line utility has been released, written in C and C++, designed for working with 7z archives and many others. Change log: support for extracting ZSTD format archives (custom implementation, ~115 KB); support for extracting ZIP, SquashFS, and RPM archives that use ZSTD compression; support for a fast algorithm […]
A new version of the Vim fork (which, in turn, traces back to Vi) – Neovim – has been released. Key changes include: a new improved default color theme; the ability to invoke diagnostic messages from the LSP with a key press; code block commenting, previously provided by the vim-commentary plugin, is now a built-in feature; various improvements to the built-in terminal, such as: output synchronization, hyperlink recognition support […]