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Release of the P2P file synchronization system syncspirit 0.4.5, compatible with Syncthing.

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The release of the syncspirit 0.4.5 program is available, which allows for the organization of automatic continuous synchronization of user files across multiple devices. The project addresses issues similar to those of the proprietary system Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync). Syncspirit is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; the domestic embedded database system libmdbx is used for storage; event processing […]

NixOS 26.05 «Yarara»

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The developers of NixOS have announced the release of NixOS 26.05 "Yarara" — the latest stable version of the distribution built around a declarative system configuration and the Nix package manager. This release will receive bug fixes and security updates until December 31, 2026, while the previous branch NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" has been declared obsolete and will reach end of support on June 30, 2026. A total of 2842 […]

ReactOS has implemented a unified BootCD, a graphical installer, and experimental ARM64 support.

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The ReactOS project has prepared a unified BootCD, replacing the previously separate installation media and LiveCD images. The new image combines the traditional text installer and LiveCD mode on a single medium. Inside the unified BootCD, the updated LiveCD mode now includes an option to launch a fully graphical system installer. The graphical interface is intended to make installation more accessible for new users compared to the long-standing text-based process […]

AVM 1.0.0

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The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), overseeing the development of AV1/AV2 video encoding formats, IAMF immersive audio format, and AVIF image format, has released project AVM (github.com) 1.0.0, which develops the official reference implementation for the AV2 video encoding format encoder and decoder. AVM includes optimizations for processors based on ARM64, x86_64, and MIPS architectures, implemented using advanced instruction sets like NEON and AVX2 […]

Release of uutils 0.9, a Rust version of GNU Coreutils

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Version 0.9.0 of the uutils coreutils project (Rust Coreutils), which develops an analogue of the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been released. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The aim of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, also capable of running on Windows and Redox […]

The GNOME Circle directory will not accept applications developed using AI

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The committee managing the GNOME Circle catalog has approved new rules prohibiting the publication of applications generated using AI tools. The GNOME Circle provides a platform for hosting applications and libraries created by third-party developers using GNOME technologies, facilitating their entry into the GNOME ecosystem. Projects showing signs of AI usage for code generation, such as […] will no longer be accepted in GNOME Circle.

A new LTS branch of the MariaDB DBMS 12.3 has been published.

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The release of MariaDB 12.3.2 has been announced, marking the first stable release of the 12.3 branch. The MariaDB 12.3 branch is classified as a long-term support release and will be maintained until June 2029. Additionally, MariaDB 13.0.1 has been made available, which is in candidate release status. The MariaDB project is a fork of MySQL that maintains backward compatibility while incorporating additional storage engines […].

Flathub prohibits the placement of applications generated using AI.

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Bart Piotrowski, who oversees the application catalog infrastructure of Flathub, has announced changes to the Flathub rules that prohibit the use of AI both for developing applications hosted in the catalog and for automating the publication process in Flathub. The rules apply to published applications, add-ons, manifest files, metadata, patches, build scripts, pull requests, and any artifacts created through flatpak-builder […].

Exim 4.99.4 update addresses a vulnerability leading to memory leaks.

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A corrective release of the Exim mail server 4.99.4 has been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2026-48840) that leads to the leakage of 16 uninitialized bytes from the process handler's stack in the client-facing IPv6 address information in the SMTP Hello header. In practice, this corrected leak may be exploitable alongside other vulnerabilities to ascertain memory layout in configurations with address randomization (ASLR). The issue manifests starting […].

Release of the Rocky Linux 10.2 distribution.

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The release of the Rocky Linux 10.2 distribution, which develops a free build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux capable of replacing classic CentOS, is now available. The distribution is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 10.2 and CentOS 10 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 10 branch will be provided until 2035. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for architectures […].

Vigolium v0.1.13-beta

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The initial open release of Vigolium v0.1.13-beta has been published — a vulnerability scanner for web applications that combines traditional deterministic scanning with agent-based auditing based on LLM. The project is available on GitHub and is distributed under the GNU AGPLv3 license, while the commercial part is provided in the cloud Cloud Console, with the core scanner declared open source. Vigolium offers two main modes of operation: vigolium scan — standard […]

A LPE vulnerability in CIFSwitch has been disclosed in Linux CIFS/cifs-utils

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Security researcher Asim Manizada has revealed a vulnerability in CIFSwitch — a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel and the user-space cifs-utils package. The issue affects the handling path of the CIFS/SMB Kerberos/SPNEGO upcall, which is the mechanism through which the kernel's CIFS client requests data from the user-space helper for Kerberos authentication when mounting SMB resources. The description was published after the linux-distros embargo expired; the CVE identifier at the time of publication was still […]

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