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The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.5 has been announced. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers, which resulted in Theo being locked out of the CVS repository of NetBSD. After this, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded individuals created a new open source project based on the NetBSD source tree […]
After five months of development, the multimedia package FFmpeg 7.0 is available, which includes a set of applications and a collection of libraries for handling various multimedia formats (recording, converting, and decoding audio and video formats). The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, and FFmpeg development proceeds alongside the MPlayer project. Notable changes introduced in FFmpeg 7.0 include: parallel processing in the ffmpeg command-line utility […]
The government of Schleswig-Holstein, a region in northern Germany, has approved the migration from Windows to Linux and from MS Office to LibreOffice on 30,000 computers in various government institutions. To organize collaboration in the new infrastructure, Nextcloud, Open Xchange, and Thunderbird will be used instead of Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, while a directory service based on open standards will replace Active Directory […]
Infinix is slowly but surely changing its reputation from 'a brand that produces cheap smartphones with interesting specifications' to 'a brand that offers more expensive smartphones with appealing solutions.' This may be classic, but the pace at which the company integrates flagship features into mid-range gadgets is still impressive. Source: 3dnews.ru
Corrective releases for X.Org Server 21.1.12 and the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 23.2.5 have been published, enabling the X.Org Server to run X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new version of X.Org Server fixes four vulnerabilities. One vulnerability could be exploited to gain elevated privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote execution […]
A new version of the free Rosa Fresh 12.5 distribution has been released. Change log: Linux kernel 6.6, supporting 5.10, 5.15, and 6.1 MESA 23.3 Nvidia-550 drivers in the repository. Branches 340, 390, and 470 are still available. A new update indicator now allows restricting access to update installations in modes: request for administrator password, request for password only for users, and no password required. Fixed […]
Details have emerged about the 'Continuation flood' attack method, which affects various implementations of the HTTP/2 protocol, including Apache httpd, Apache Traffic Server, Node.js, oghttp, Go net/http2, Envoy, oghttp, and nghttp2. This vulnerability can be exploited to carry out attacks on servers supporting HTTP/2.0, leading to memory exhaustion (cessation of request processing or crash of processes) depending on the implementation or […]
Google has introduced a new open-source library called jpegli, which features an image encoder and decoder for the JPEG format. The library includes additional optimizations for improved encoding efficiency, allowing for a 35% increase in the compression of high-quality images compared to traditional JPEG codecs. Compared to libjpeg-turbo, jpegli achieves a similar level of quality while reducing the bitrate by 32%. On […]
The Linux Containers community has released the 6.0 toolkit for organizing the operation of isolated LXC containers, providing a runtime suitable for running containers with a full system environment, similar to virtual machines, as well as for executing unprivileged containers for individual applications (OCI). LXC is classified as a low-level toolkit that operates at the container level. For centralized management of containers deployed in a cluster of […]
After a year of development, the mobile web browser CENO 2.1.0 has been released, designed to facilitate access to information in situations where direct access is impossible, for instance, when segments of the internet are disconnected from the global network due to failures or malicious actions. The browser is based on the GeckoView engine (used in Firefox for Android) and is enhanced with the capability to exchange data through a decentralized P2P network, in […]
Drew DeVault, the creator of the Sway user environment, the Hare programming language, the Aerc email client, and the collaborative development platform SourceHut, has announced the release of project Redict 7.3.0, a fork of the Redis database management system. Redict forked from Redis 7.2.4, the last version distributed under the BSD license. Changes developed by the Redict project are licensed under LGPLv3.0, but the borrowed code from Redis remains under the license […]
Administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have published information about the detection of unauthorized access to 174 user accounts. According to representatives of PyPI, the authentication details of the affected users were likely obtained from collections of previously compromised credentials created as a result of breaches or leaks from other services. Access to PyPI accounts was possible due to the use of […]