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Canonical has announced a 10-year update formation period for LTS releases of Ubuntu, as well as for the base packages with the Linux kernel originally delivered in LTS branches. Thus, the LTS release of Ubuntu 22.04 and its Linux kernel 5.15 will be supported until April 2032, and updates for the next LTS release of Ubuntu 24.04 will be formed until 2034. Previously […]
The release of the Kata Containers 3.2 project has been published, developing a stack for container execution utilizing isolation based on full virtualization mechanisms. The project was created by Intel and Hyper by combining the technologies of Clear Containers and runV. The project code is written in Go and Rust and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The development of the project is overseen by a working group set up under the auspices of […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has released the nDPI 4.8 toolkit for deep packet inspection, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to contribute changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has remained unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows identifying the protocols used in the traffic […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have released a new version of the Agama installer (formerly D-Installer), developed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE, notable for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama provides the ability to use various front-ends, such as a front-end for managing installation through a web interface. For installing packages, checking hardware, partitioning disks, and other necessary installation functions, they continue […]
Google is set to launch an IP Protection feature in the Chrome browser, designed to hide users' IP addresses from website owners. This new feature could serve as a built-in anonymizer aimed at preventing the tracking of movements and circumventing blocks both at the website level and by communication operators. Technically, the IP Protection implementation involves directing traffic through a proxy server before reaching the target […]
On October 23, 2023, on its fourteenth birthday, a new version of the open real-time operating system Embox was released. Among the changes: Improved support for ARM architecture Improved support for RISC-V architecture Improved support for AARCH64 architecture Enhanced dev-tree technology Enhanced SPI, I2C, UART subsystems, and others Improved built-in GDB server Enhanced file subsystem Improved device subsystem (block & char […]
In Russia, a training platform for system programmers is being developed — BMPOS (Basic Modular Platform for Operating Systems), which is conceived and created as a teaching aid for operating system development with an extensive theoretical and practical foundation. As part of the project, a modular kernel is being developed, fundamentally different from existing kernels and specifically designed for studying the process of operating system development. Code […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which version 120 will be based, set to release on November 21, the list of language models in the built-in machine translation system, enabled by default since Firefox version 118, has been expanded. In addition to the initially available models for English, Bulgarian, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, and Portuguese, models for Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, and […] have been proposed for testing.
Google has begun implementing the IP Protection feature in Chrome, designed to hide the user's IP address from website owners. This new feature can be used as a built-in anonymizer aimed primarily at preventing tracking while also being suitable for bypassing blocks established on both the website and the service provider levels. Technically, the proposed […]
The first stable release of the nghttp3 project is available, developing a library in C implementing the HTTP/3 protocol. The variant of the library for the HTTP/2 protocol, developed by the same project, serves as the foundation for the mod_http2 module included in the Apache HTTP server. The project's developments are also utilized in the Curl utility. The library code is distributed under the MIT license. The HTTP/3 standard defines the use of the QUIC (Quick […]
The release of the free boot firmware Libreboot 20231021 has been unveiled. This update has been assigned the status of a test release (stable releases are published approximately once a year, with the last stable release in June). The project develops a ready-made build from the coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmwares responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and other hardware components, with minimal binary insertions. Libreboot is aimed at […]
The release of the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.58 has been published, featuring 33 changes and addressing three vulnerabilities, two of which are related to the potential for DoS attacks on systems using the HTTP/2 protocol. CVE-2023-45802 — conditions for memory exhaustion due to delayed memory release after an HTTP/2 stream reset by a packet with the RST flag. As memory is not released immediately after processing […]