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Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 9.0, an open implementation of WinAPI. The codebase has been frozen ahead of the release, which is expected in the second half of January. Compared to the Wine 8.21 release, 52 bug reports have been fixed and 391 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Integrated vkd3d package with Direct3D 12 support, working through call translation […]
On November 22, after more than two months of development, release 2.1.0 of the cross-platform console utility pkgconf and the library libpkgconf, written in C with minimal dependencies, was launched. The utility was created as an alternative to pkg-config from the freedesktop.org project and is designed to assist in configuring compiler and linker flags; generally used in conjunction with autotools utilities. Change log: the analyzer no longer 'flattens'; fixed […]
On December 6, release 3.28 of the cross-platform build system CMake, written in C++ and distributed under the BSD-3 license, was released. Key changes include: improved support for C++20 modules in Ninja and Visual Studio (VS 2022 and later) generators. Details in cmake-cxxmodules(7); HIP language code for NVIDIA GPUs can now be compiled with the nvcc compiler (NVIDIA CUDA Compiler). More details in […]
Werner Koch, the lead developer and creator of the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) project, has founded the LibrePGP project, focused on developing an updated specification that serves as an alternative to the OpenPGP standard. The fork was created in response to changes proposed by the IETF working group for the next update to the OpenPGP specification (RFC-4880), which Koch viewed as questionable in terms of maintaining compatibility and ensuring […]
The release of Electron 28.0.0 has been published, providing a standalone framework for developing cross-platform user applications based on components of Chromium, V8, and Node.js. The significant version number change is due to the update to Chromium codebase 120, Node.js platform 18.18.2, and JavaScript engine V8 12.0. Among the changes in the new release: support for ESM (ECMAScript Modules) JavaScript modules has been added, created in […]
The leadership of the climate initiative Frontier, on behalf of a group of companies including Alphabet, Stripe, Shopify, and other giants, announced a deal worth over $57 million to remove more than 158,000 tons of CO2 from the Earth's atmosphere by 2028. The startup Lithos Carbon will remove carbon dioxide by spreading basalt chips over agricultural lands. It is believed that this […]
After ten months of development, the release of the Endless OS 5.1 distribution has been presented, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system where users can quickly find applications to their liking. Applications are distributed as standalone packages in Flatpak format. The size of the available installation images ranges from 1.1 to 18 GB. The distribution does not use traditional package managers, instead offering a minimal […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.19 is available, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl system library and BusyBox utilities. The distribution features enhanced security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection). OpenRC is used for initialization, and its own package manager apk is used for package management. Alpine is used for creating official Docker container images and […]
After four months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 255 has been announced. Among the most important improvements are: support for exporting storage through NVMe-TCP, the systemd-bsod component for full-screen error messages, the systemd-vmspawn utility for launching virtual machines, the varlinkctl utility for managing Varlink services, the systemd-pcrlock utility for analyzing TPM2 PCR registers and generating access rules, and the pam_systemd_loadkey.so authentication module. Key changes […]
McDonald’s announced a partnership with Google to implement generative AI starting in 2024. This move, aimed at the company's technological update, promises to radically transform the chain's operational processes, offering customers better service and fresher food. Image source: Waid1995 / Pixabay Source: 3dnews.ru
Andrew Lukoshko, Chief Engineer Hello everyone! Today the AlmaLinux OS Foundation is excited to share some important news regarding our ELevate project (a project that helps migrate between major versions of RHEL derivatives). Previously, ELevate supported only official repositories (completely excluding third-party ones). However, the AlmaLinux team has made significant improvements! We are happy to announce that the first step has been taken, and EPEL support is now enabled in […]
A group of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has presented a new attack technique called SLAM (Spectre Linear Address Masking), offering a new way to exploit the Spectre class of microarchitectural vulnerabilities, in which data leakage occurs when translating non-canonical addresses, and new processor extensions for masking linear addresses are used to bypass canonical checks. Researchers have released a toolkit implementing this method and proposed […]