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Release of Yggdrasil 0.5, implementation of a private network operating over the internet

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After more than two years of development, the release of the reference implementation of the Yggdrasil protocol 0.5 has been published, allowing the deployment of a separate decentralized private IPv6 network over the conventional global network, ensuring privacy with end-to-end encryption. Any existing applications that support IPv6 can be used in the Yggdrasil network. The implementation is written in Go and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. Supported platforms include Linux, OpenWRT, Windows, […]

Release of Tails 5.19 Distribution

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The release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.19 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous web access, has been announced. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data is encrypted for storage in save mode between sessions. […]

T-FLEX CAD works on Linux without Wine

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At the recent October annual conference "Constellation CAD 2023," developers from "Top Systems" showcased their flagship engineering design product, T-FLEX CAD, compiled for the Linux operating system. During a live demonstration, the process of opening large assembly models and key navigation features in the 3D window were displayed. Event participants noted the system's high performance […]

The bcachefs file system has been accepted into Linux 6.7.

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After three years of negotiations, Linus Torvalds accepted the bcachefs file system into Linux 6.7. Development has been led by Kent Overstreet for the past decade. Functionally, bcachefs is similar to ZFS and btrfs, but the author claims that the design of the file system allows for achieving a higher level of performance. For example, unlike btrfs, snapshots do not use COW technology, which allows […]

Release of VLC media player 3.0.20 addressing a vulnerability

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An unscheduled patch release of the VLC media player 3.0.20 is available, addressing a potential vulnerability (CVE not assigned) that could lead to data being written to out-of-bounds memory when parsing incorrectly formatted network packets in the MMSH (Microsoft Media Server over HTTP) stream handler. The vulnerability could theoretically be exploited when attempting to load content from malicious servers using the URL "mms://" […]

Release of Lighttpd HTTP server 1.4.73 addressing DoS vulnerabilities in HTTP/2

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The release of the lightweight HTTP server lighttpd 1.4.73 has been announced, aiming to combine high performance, security, compliance with standards, and configurability. Lighttpd is suitable for use in high-load systems and is designed for low memory and CPU resource consumption. The project’s code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. The new version includes detection and logging of "Rapid" class DoS attacks […]

Incus 0.2 Release, a fork of the LXD container management system

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The second release of the Incus project has been presented, in which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the original team of developers that once established LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It is worth noting that the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to develop LXD separately as an enterprise […]

The Bcachefs code has been accepted into the mainline of the Linux 6.7 kernel

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Linus Torvalds has approved the request to include the Bcachefs filesystem in the mainline of the Linux kernel and added the Bcachefs implementation to the repository where the 6.7 kernel branch is being developed, with a release expected in early January. The patch added to the kernel contains about 95,000 lines of code. The project has been developed for over 10 years by Kent Overstreet, who also developed […]

Official repository for nightly builds of Firefox for Debian-based distributions

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Mozilla developers have announced the launch of an official repository that provides deb packages for installing nightly builds of Firefox on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Debian-based distributions. The created packages are compatible with the traditional versions of Firefox for Debian and Ubuntu available for download in '.tar.bz2' archives. Using the APT repository allows leveraging the standard package installation and update tools of the distributions. […]

Mozilla has launched an APT repository for nightly builds of Firefox

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Developers at Mozilla have announced the creation of an official repository with deb packages that allow the installation of nightly builds of Firefox on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Debian-like distributions. The formed packages are compatible with traditional Firefox builds for Debian and Ubuntu offered for download in '.tar.bz2' archives. Using the APT repository enables the use of the built-in capabilities of the distributions for package installation and updates. […]

The release of GhostBSD 23.10.1.

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The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 23.10.1 has been published, based on FreeBSD 13-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images have been created for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). In the new version: Expanded […]

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