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The developers of the Linux Mint project have announced work on adapting the Cinnamon desktop environment for operation in a Wayland protocol-based environment. Experimental support for Wayland will be available in Cinnamon 6.0, scheduled for release in November, and an optional session with Cinnamon on Wayland will be offered for testing in the upcoming Linux Mint 21.3 release, expected in December. The porting is currently underway […]
Today, October 26, 2023, the release of the Qucs-S electronic circuit simulation tool has taken place. The recommended simulation engine for Qucs-S is Ngspice. Release 2.1.0 includes significant changes. Here's a list of the main ones. Tuner mode simulation has been added (see the screenshot), allowing component values to be adjusted using sliders and viewing results on graphs. A similar tool is available, for example, in AWR; For Ngspice, added […]
The developers of the Tor anonymous network have published the results of the audit of the Tor Browser and the tools being developed by the project, including OONI Probe, rdsys, BridgeDB, and Conjure, which are used to bypass censorship. The audit was conducted by Cure53 from November 2022 to April 2023. During the review, 9 vulnerabilities were identified, two of which were classified as critical, one assigned a medium severity level, […]
Bluetuith is a TUI-based Bluetooth manager for Linux designed to serve as an alternative to most Bluetooth managers. The program can perform various operations with Bluetooth, such as connecting to Bluetooth devices and managing them in general, with information about the device—such as battery percentage, RSSI, etc.—displayed if available. More detailed information about the device can be […]
The company "Bazalt SPO" has released Simply Linux 10.2, built on the 10th ALT platform. The distribution is a user-friendly and resource-light system with a classic desktop based on Xfce, providing complete Russian localization of the interface and most applications. The product is distributed under a license agreement that does not transfer distribution rights, but allows unrestricted use […]
Jina has launched under the Apache 2.0 license a machine learning model for vector representation of text — jina-embeddings-v2. This model allows arbitrary text, including up to 8192 characters, to be transformed into a small sequence of real numbers forming a vector associated with the original text and reproducing its semantics (meaning). Jina Embedding became the first open machine learning model with characteristics that are on par with proprietary models […]
Oracle has formed a new branch of the MySQL database system 8.2 and published corrective updates for MySQL 8.0.35 and 5.7.44. MySQL Community Server 8.2.0 builds are prepared for all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. MySQL 8.2.0 is the second release generated under the new release model, which includes two types of MySQL branches — 'Innovation' and 'LTS'. The Innovation branches […]
iXsystems has released TrueNAS SCALE 23.10, which uses the Linux kernel and Debian package base (previous products from this company, including TrueOS, PC-BSD, TrueNAS, and FreeNAS, were based on FreeBSD). Similar to TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS), TrueNAS SCALE can be downloaded and used for free. The size of the ISO image is 1.5 GB. Source texts specific to TrueNAS SCALE […]
The main branch release of nginx 1.25.3 has been formed, continuing to develop new capabilities. The parallel stable branch 1.24.x only includes changes related to fixing critical bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, the stable branch 1.26 will be formed based on the main branch 1.25.x. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. Among the changes: Enhanced […]
Corrigendum releases X.Org Server 21.1.9 and DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 22.2.2 have been published, allowing the launch of X.Org Server to run X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. New versions have fixed vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited for privilege escalation in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution in configurations […]
The release of web browser Firefox 119 has occurred, and an update of the long-term support branch — 115.4.0 has been formed. The Firefox 120 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for November 21. Key innovations in Firefox 119: An updated interface for the Firefox View page has been proposed, simplifying access to previously viewed content. The Firefox View page consolidates information about […]
Firefox 119 is available. The content of the 'Firefox Overview' page (Firefox View) is divided into sections 'Recently Viewed', 'Open Tabs', 'Recently Closed Tabs', 'Tabs from Other Devices', 'History' (with the ability to sort by sites or by date). The button icon that opens the Firefox View page has been changed. Recently closed tabs are now always saved between sessions (browser.sessionstore.persist_closed_tabs_between_sessions). Previously, they were saved only if […]