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The release of Dropbear 2024.84 is available, a compact SSH server and client primarily used in embedded systems such as wireless routers, and in distributions like OpenWrt. Dropbear is characterized by its low memory consumption, the ability to disable unnecessary features at the build stage, and support for building both the client and server in a single executable file, similar to busybox. When statically linked with uClibc, the executable […]
GNOME developers summarized the work completed in the project over the past week. The maintainer of the Nautilus file manager (GNOME Files) published plans for creating the implementation of a file chooser interface (Nautilus.org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser), which can be used in applications instead of the file open dialogs provided by GTK (GtkFileChooserDialog). Compared to the implementation in GTK, the new interface will ensure behavior more closely aligned with GNOME and […]
OpenBSD 7.5 has been released! The release does not bring any radical innovations or changes, but, as always, it incorporates a large number of real patches. Hurry to update! Among the notable points in the changelog are: even fewer kernel locks; updated to 6.6.19 drm; even more support for ARM64 and RISC-V; pinsyscalls(2), allowing syscalls to be "nailed down" to specific addresses […]
The experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.6 has taken place. Since the release of 9.5, 18 bug reports have been closed and 154 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the preservation of the state of registers used in the AVX extension in the system call dispatcher (wine_syscall_dispatcher). Improved support for effects has been added in the Direct2D API. Support for using OAEP padding has been introduced in the BCrypt implementation […]
After seven years of development, the release of the Netplan 1.0 toolkit has been published, enhancing the format for storing network interface settings and related utilities for managing network configurations. Netplan stores parameters in YAML format and provides backends that abstract access to configurations for NetworkManager and systemd-networkd. The project's code is written in Python and C, and is distributed under the […]
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 […]