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The release of the LDL 0.3 (Little DirectMedia Layer) multimedia library has been published, enabling the creation of graphical applications capable of running on both modern and outdated systems (Windows 95+, macOS/OS X/Mac OS X 10.6+, Linux kernel distributions 2.0+, FreeBSD 3.0+). It offers a simple cross-platform API for managing windows and processing events from input devices. OpenGL can be used for rendering […]
After nearly eight months, version 2.3 of the lzbench console utility has been released, designed to compare many popular compression and decompression algorithms (the list can be obtained with the command lzbench -l). The utility is written in C, C++, Rust, and Zig, and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 or 3 license — your choice. Changes: groups of compressor aliases have been reorganized […]
The release of FreeBSD 15.1 has been announced — another update to the stable branch of FreeBSD 15, a universal UNIX-like operating system for servers, workstations, networking equipment, embedded systems, and cloud environments. According to the release schedule, the official announcement of FreeBSD 15.1 took place on June 16, 2026, and support for FreeBSD 15.1 is stated until March 31, 2027. FreeBSD 15.1 includes updates to the user environment, […]
After four months of development, the release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment has been published. To evaluate the performance of the new KDE releases, you can use builds from the KDE Linux, KDE Neon, and openSUSE projects (Argon, based on openSUSE Leap, and Krypton, based on openSUSE Tumbleweed). Key changes in KDE Plasma 6.7: A unified style engine, Union, has been integrated, allowing the use of different technologies […]
After six months of development, the release of FreeBSD 15.1 has been formed. Installation builds are prepared for the amd64, aarch64, armv7, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures. Additional builds are supplied for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. The FreeBSD 15.1 release will be supported until April 2027, and updates for the 15.x branch will […]
The release of FreeRDP 3.27.0 has been published — an open implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, including libraries and clients for connecting to RDP servers. The release was announced on June 15, 2026, as noted in the official project announcement. Archives of the new version have been uploaded to the FreeRDP release directory, and the full set of changes is available through the comparison of 3.26.0…3.27.0 on GitHub. Developers call FreeRDP 3.27.0 a significant […]
The committee overseeing the development of the GCC compiler set (GCC Steering Committee) has approved the inclusion of the WebAssembly backend into the GCC codebase. The decision pertains to the general approval of delivering the WebAssembly backend as part of GCC. The approval of the implementation and the acceptance of the submitted code will be addressed separately by the team responsible for review. The backend will enable the use of GCC to compile source code in C/C++ into intermediate code […]
Daniel Stenberg, the author of the utility for transferring data over the network curl, announced the suspension of the acceptance and processing of vulnerability reports from July 1 to August 3. An exception will be made only for senders using paid support. The reason cited is the need for a break and rest after a significant increase in the workload of processing reports of vulnerabilities […]
The Latin American Free Software Foundation has released a completely free version of the Linux 7.1 kernel — Linux-libre 7.1-gnu, stripped of firmware elements and drivers containing proprietary components or code sections that are restricted by the manufacturer. In Linux-libre, kernel features for loading external proprietary components not included in the kernel distribution are also disabled, and mentions of the use of proprietary components have been removed from the documentation […]
The Arch Linux project has suspended the registration of new accounts in the AUR (Arch User Repository) due to ongoing activity related to the insertion of malicious code in packages and vandalism involving insults in the Russian language. After the first mass attack, the Arch Linux developers attempted to protect themselves from the issue through selective filters, but the attackers bypassed them by replacing npm with bun and obfuscation […]
On May 13, after more than a year of development, version 7.0.0 of the cross-platform library FTXUI was released, designed for creating text-based interface applications in C++ and distributed under the MIT license. The library's capabilities include: functional style similar to React JS; a simple and elegant style (according to the library's author); keyboard and mouse event handling; support for UTF8 and Unicode; support for True Color; and support for changing […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 7.1. Among the most notable changes are: a new ntfsplus driver, the first stage of phasing out support for CPU i486, removal of old Ethernet adapters, removal of ISDN and AX.25 protocols, inclusion by default of the Intel FRED mechanism, support for BPF handlers in io_uring, optimization of the swapping subsystem, support for sub-schedulers in sched_ext, and zero-copy I/O mode in the driver […]