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The release of the OPNsense 24.1 distribution for creating firewalls has been formulated. This is a branch of the pfSense project, created to form a completely open distribution capable of having functionality on par with commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company, being developed with direct community involvement and possessing […]
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 24.2. Starting with this release, the numbering system has been changed to a "year.month" scheme, so the next release will be version 24.8. LibreOffice 24.2 includes the following changes: Writer A new set of improvements in the Navigator. Styles for comments have been added, and their appearance can now be customized. Improvements in supporting 'floating' tables from MS Word. […]
The Document Foundation has released the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite. Ready-to-install packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. A total of 166 developers participated in the preparation of this release, of which 108 are volunteers. 57% of the changes were made by 50 employees from three companies overseeing the project — Collabora, Red Hat, and Allotropia, with 20% contributed by eight employees of The Document […]
The latest version of the Radix cross Linux 1.9.367 distribution for devices based on ARM/AArch64, RISC-V, and x86/x86_64 architectures is now available. This release includes packages for MPlayer, VLC, MiniDLNA, Transmission (Qt & HTTP-server), Rdesktop, FreeRDP, GIMP3-2.99.16. Screenshot with MATE Desktop Environment Images have been prepared for devices such as: Repka pi3; Orange pi5 Leez-p710 boards TF307 v4 based on Baikal M1000; […]
The UBPorts developers have released OTA-4 Focal. This is the fourth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (previous releases used Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as the base). What's new in Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Focal: Support has been added for the Oneplus One and Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones. The settings have been added in 'System Settings > Security & Privacy > Locking and unlocking […]
Qualys has discovered a dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2023-6246) in the standard C library Glibc, allowing the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges through manipulation of SUID application launches. Researchers were able to develop a working exploit that grants root privileges by manipulating command-line arguments when running the 'su' utility. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in the __vsyslog_internal() function, used during calls to the syslog() functions and […]
On January 30 at 18:20 (MSK), users experienced a mass failure in host resolution in the RU domain zone, caused by an error in changing the keys used to authenticate the RU zone via DNSSEC. As a result of the incident, all domains in the '.ru' zone ceased to resolve on DNS servers using DNSSEC for data verification. The problem only affected users using DNS resolvers from providers or […]
There are at least two reasons why the Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite is so interesting. First, it is an inexpensive bufferless drive with linear read speeds exceeding 7 GB/s. Second, it is built with a Chinese controller and Chinese flash memory, which is a combination we haven't seen yet. Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.22 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous web access, has been formed. Anonymous access in Tails is ensured by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by a packet filter by default. User data is stored using encryption in persistent storage mode between sessions. […]
The release of the Pale Moon web browser 33.0.0 has been published, which has forked from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher performance, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory usage, and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 license (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without transitioning to […]
After three months of development, the UBports project, which took over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical stepped back, has released the OTA-4 Focal (over-the-air) firmware. This is the fourth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 (previous releases were based on Ubuntu 16.04). The project is also developing an experimental desktop port of Unity 8, […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network have published the results of the second audit conducted by Radically Open Security from April to August 2023 (the first audit was conducted by Cure53 from November 2022 to April 2023). The review covered the code for the operation of exit nodes, Tor Browser, infrastructure components (metric collection, SWBS, Onionoo API), and […]