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Notepad++ is now available as a native application for macOSIt's a free text editor that supports multiple programming languages and is suitable for general text processing. It doesn't require any additional tools like Wine, Porting Kit, or emulation tools. It's a full-fledged native application developed under the GNU General Public License. Thanks to its powerful text editing […]
Researchers from Xint have identified a kernel Linux A vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) allows an unprivileged user to gain root access to a system. The issue is codenamed Copy Fail. A prototype exploit is available. The possibility of exploiting the vulnerability was demonstrated in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Amazon Linux 2023, RHEL 10.1 and SUSE 16, but it is noted that kernel packages from other distributions, including Debian, Arch, Fedora, […]
On April 29th, after over a month of development, 521 commits, and 282 bug fixes, version 8.20.0 (the 274th) of the cross-platform curl command-line utility and library, written in C and distributed under the curl license, was released. Key Changes: Security As mentioned earlier ("High quality chaos"), there has been a significant increase in security reports recently. This time […]
Details of the "Copy Fail" vulnerability CVE-2026-31431 (Base Score: 7.8 HIGH) have been published. This vulnerability allows local privilege escalation to root for any local user without special tools or conditions. Most systems released since 2017 are affected. The vulnerability is due to an error in authencesn, a cryptographic template in the kernel. Linux — and is exploited through the AF_ALG interface. An exploit with code in […]
Community Linux Containers has released LXC 7.0, a toolkit for managing isolated containers. It provides a runtime suitable for both running containers with a full system environment, similar to virtual machines, and for running unprivileged containers of individual applications (OCI). LXC is a low-level toolkit that operates at the container level. For centralized management of containers deployed in a cluster of […]
One of the Devuan distribution developers has unveiled the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring high-quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow Devuan to continue shipping GTK2-based applications after GTK2 support in the distribution is discontinued. Debian 14, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The GTK project developers have stopped […]
The fheroes2 project, version 1.1.15, is now available. It recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and is licensed under the GPLv2. To run the game, you need game resource files, which can be obtained from the original Heroes of Might and Magic II. The project includes a script for automatically loading […]
Dear fheroes2 fans! Development of the open-source Heroes of Might and Magic 2 engine continues, and we are thrilled to announce the release of a new version of the fheroes2 engine – 1.1.15! This release brings a host of exciting improvements to a wide range of engine components. So, without further ado, let's dive into the details! First off, the community continues to delight us with […]
One of the Devuan distribution developers has unveiled the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring high-quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow Devuan to continue shipping GTK2-based applications after GTK2 support in the distribution is discontinued. Debian 14, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The GTK project developers have stopped […]
After four years of development, Valve has released GameNetworkingSockets 1.5.0, a library implementing a messaging system over UDP that can be used to organize high-speed and reliable network data exchange in games. The code is written in C++ and is licensed under the BSD license. GameNetworkingSockets implements a TCP-like connection-establishment protocol over UDP, but is designed for […]
On April 28, the next version of the Fedora family of distributions was quietly and unnoticed released. Linux – 44. The Fedora team prefers to test the distribution before releasing it, so the release was delayed twice as per standard protocol (the original date was April 14th). Key features of Gnome 50: X11-related code has been removed; Anaconda installer: the logic for creating network profiles has been changed; Wine NTSYNC: enabled by default […]
Version 26.01 of the 7-Zip library and command-line utility has been released. These tools are designed for working with archives in 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, and many other formats. The project is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL license. Changes: Linux-7-Zip version can use large (2 MB) memory pages, which allows to increase the compression speed of 7z/xz/LZMA/LZMA2 by […]