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After eight months of development, the release of OpenSSL library 3.2.0 has been finalized, implementing SSL/TLS protocols and various encryption algorithms. Support for OpenSSL 3.2 will continue until November 23, 2025. Support for earlier branches OpenSSL 3.1 and 3.0 LTS will last until March 2025 and September 2026, respectively. Support for branch 1.1.1 ended in September this year. The project's code […]
The developers of the openSUSE distribution announced the completion of the application acceptance stage for the logo contest and moved on to voting, which anyone can participate in. The voting will last until December 10 and will allow the selection of new logos for the entire openSUSE project and for the distributions being developed within it: Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll, and Kalpa. A total of 36 logos were submitted for the contest […]
A new version of the free system manager systemd has been released. Changes that break backward compatibility: Mounting a separate /usr/ partition is now supported only at the initramfs stage. Support for System V init scripts and cgroups v1 will be removed in one of the upcoming releases. The options SuspendMode=, HibernateState=, and HybridSleepState= from the [Sleep] section in systemd-sleep.conf have been declared deprecated and do not affect system behavior. […]
The release of the integrated development environment Qt Creator 12.0 has been published, designed for creating cross-platform applications using the Qt library. It supports both classic C++ programming and the use of the QML language, where JavaScript is used to define scripts and the structure and parameters of interface elements are specified using CSS-like blocks. Ready-made builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. In […]
The release of the Archinstall 2.7 installer has been published, which has been included as an option in the Arch Linux installation ISO images since April 2021. Archinstall operates in console mode and can be used instead of the default manual installation mode of the distribution. A graphical interface implementation for installation is under separate development, but it is not included in the Arch Linux installation images and has been more than […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2023-41913) has been identified in strongSwan, a VPN package based on the IPSec protocol, used in Linux, Android, FreeBSD, and macOS, which can be exploited for remote code execution by an attacker. The vulnerability arises from an error in the charon-tkm process implementing the key exchange protocol (IKE) based on TKMv2 (Trusted Key Manager), leading to a buffer overflow when processing specially crafted DH (Diffie–Hellman) scheme values. […]
An intermediate release of the OpenZFS 2.2.1 project, which develops the ZFS file system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD, is now available. This release is notable for adding support for Linux kernel 6.6 and attempting to address a problem that leads to data corruption (resetting part of the blocks) in files after they are copied. It was initially thought that the issue only occurs in the 2.2.x branch and is caused by a bug in OpenZFS 2.2.0 […]
New versions of the AlmaLinux 8.9 and Rocky Linux 8.9 distributions have been released, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 distribution and containing all the changes proposed in this release. The 8.x releases continue to be maintained alongside the 9.x branch and aim to create a free RHEL build capable of taking the place of the classic CentOS 8, whose support was discontinued at the end of 2021, […]
VK experienced a mass outage — many users from Russia and other countries, both near and far, faced issues logging into the social network on both the desktop and mobile versions of the platform. Some users cannot access the messages section. When launching the VK app, the following message appears: "Loading error. Check […]"
After three months of development, the release of the distributed source code management system Git 2.43 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, offering flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resilience against 'backward' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, […]
Firefox 120 is now available. What's new: The Snap version of Firefox can now import data from the Snap version of Chromium. The picture-in-picture window can now stick to the corners of the screen (to do this, you need to drag it toward the corner while holding Ctrl). Hotkeys have been added for modifying and deleting saved credentials on the about:logins page (Alt+Enter, Alt+Backspace). Privacy: The context menu for links now includes the option 'Copy Without […]
Alma Linux 8.9 is the third release following Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The distribution is notable for deciding to veer away from 1:1 cloning after Red Hat opted to impose a redistribution ban and not join the OpenELA association. The distribution includes a repository with packages that differ from Red Hat Enterprise Linux — […]