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CodeWeavers has released version 23.5 of the Crossover package, based on Wine code, designed for running applications and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is one of the key contributors to the Wine project, sponsoring its development and reinvesting innovations made for its commercial products back into the project. The source code of the open components of Crossover 23.0 can be downloaded from this page. […]
The release of RetroArch 1.16 has been published, enhancing the framework for emulating various gaming consoles, allowing classic games to be run through a simple unified graphical interface. Emulators for consoles such as Atari 2600/7800/Jaguar/Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64/DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X/CD, SuperNES, etc. are supported. Gamepads from existing gaming consoles, including Playstation 3, can be used, […]
After four years of development, a new stable release of the project management system Trac 1.6 has been presented (the 1.5 branch was experimental), providing a web interface for working with Subversion and Git repositories, a built-in Wiki, a bug tracking system, and a feature planning section for new versions. The code is written in Python and is distributed under the BSD license. SQLite and other databases can be used for data storage, […]
The release of the GNUnet framework 0.20 has been announced, intended for building secure decentralized P2P networks. Networks created with GNUnet do not have a single point of failure and can guarantee users' privacy, including protecting against potential abuses by intelligence services and administrators with access to network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, […]
The Khronos Group, which is focused on developing graphics standards, has published the ANARI 1.0 (Analytic Rendering Interface) standard, which defines an API for cross-platform rendering engines aimed at unifying software interfaces for data visualization. Rendering engine implementations that support the ANARI standard have already been prepared by companies such as AMD (RadeonProRenderANARI), Intel (anari-ospray), and NVIDIA (VisRTX). An open SDK for application development has also been released, along with a plugin that supports […]
The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, controlled by the community and providing certificates free of charge to anyone who wishes, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The service generates around three million new certificates daily. The number of active certificates stands at 277 million (each certificate is valid for three months). These certificates cover approximately 111 million registered domains and 350 million fully qualified domain names (FQDN). According to Firefox Telemetry statistics, worldwide […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.17 internet application suite has taken place, which combines a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer within a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the Chatzilla IRC client, the DOM Inspector web development toolset, and the Lightning calendar/planner. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based […]
The SQLite developers are advancing the experimental VFS module CBS (Cloud Backed SQLite), which allows the database content to be stored not in a local file but in external cloud storage. A specially optimized format for external storage is used, enabling data to be loaded dynamically from the cloud as needed, without the need to copy the entire database to the local system in advance. From cloud storage […]
Several recently discovered critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24834 — a vulnerability in the Redis DBMS that allows a buffer overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries when running a specially crafted Lua script. This vulnerability could potentially lead to remote code execution on the server. The issue manifests starting from Redis 2.6 and has been fixed in versions 7.0.12, 6.2.13, and 6.0.20. As a workaround […]
The developers at Mozilla have decided to remove the 'about:performance' service page, which allowed tracking the CPU load and memory consumption generated while processing various pages. This decision is due to the introduction of the similar 'about:processes' interface starting from Firefox 78, which duplicates the functionality of 'about:performance' but is considered more user-friendly and informative. For instance, the 'about:processes' page displays not […]
The release of the Pale Moon 32.3 web browser has been published, which diverged from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher performance, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory usage, and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without transitioning to […]
Oracle has announced its readiness to continue maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its Oracle Linux distribution, despite Red Hat's restriction of public access to the source code of RHEL packages. The loss of access to the reference source code of packages increases the likelihood of compatibility issues, but Oracle is prepared to address these issues if they affect clients. […]