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The about:performance interface will be removed in Firefox 116

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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 […]

Release of Pale Moon browser 32.3

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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 Linux will continue to support compatibility with RHEL

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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. […]

Release of OpenRGB 0.9, a tool for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices

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After 7 months of development, OpenRGB 0.9 has been released, an open toolkit for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices. The package supports ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI motherboards with RGB subsystems for case lighting, memory modules with RGB lighting from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair, and HyperX, ASUS Aura/ROG graphics cards, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro, and Gigabyte Aorus, and various LED strip controllers (ThermalTake, […]

Imagination used the Zink driver to support OpenGL 4.6 in its GPUs.

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Imagination Technologies announced the support of the OpenGL 4.6 graphics API in its GPUs, implemented through the open Zink driver developed in the Mesa project repository. Zink provides an implementation of OpenGL on top of Vulkan, allowing hardware-accelerated OpenGL on devices that only support the Vulkan API. The performance of Zink is close to that of native OpenGL implementations, enabling hardware manufacturers to […]

Release of Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0

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Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a ready-to-use solution for quickly establishing a system for monitoring email traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For […]

The openKylin 1.0 distribution has been launched, developed by major Chinese companies.

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The release of the independent Linux distribution openKylin 1.0 has been announced. The project is being developed by the China Electronics Corporation with the participation of over 270 various Chinese organizations, educational institutions, research centers, and both software and hardware manufacturers. Development is carried out under open licenses (mainly GPLv3) in repositories hosted on gitee.com. The ready installation builds of openKylin 1.0 are formed for X86_64 (4.2 GB), ARM, and RISC-V architectures [...].

The Sourcegraph project has shifted from an open license to a proprietary one.

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The Sourcegraph project, which develops an engine for navigating source text, refactoring, and searching code, has abandoned development under the Apache 2.0 license in favor of a proprietary license starting with version 5.1. This new license prohibits duplication and sale while allowing copying and modification during development and testing. Initially, the release note for Sourcegraph 5.1 stated that the open edition [...].

LXD will be developed by Canonical separately from the Linux Containers project.

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The Linux Containers project team, which develops tools for managing isolated containers LXC, the LXD container manager, the virtual filesystem LXCFS, the image building tool distrobuilder, the libresource library, and the lxcri runtime, has announced that the LXD container manager will now be developed separately by Canonical. Canonical, the creator and main developer of LXD, after 8 years of development as part of Linux Containers [...].

The StackRot vulnerability in the Linux kernel allows privilege escalation.

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The change in the Linux kernel 6.1 that translated VMA (Virtual Memory Area) from the "red-black tree" data structure to the "maple tree" has led to the emergence of a vulnerability (CVE-2023-3269) that allows non-privileged users to execute their code with kernel privileges. The vulnerability, codenamed StackRot, becomes apparent starting from the 6.1 kernel release and has been fixed in updates 6.4.1, 6.3.11, and 6.1.37. The "maple tree" structure [...].

Vulnerability in Nginx configurations with incorrect alias block settings

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Some servers using nginx remain vulnerable to the Nginx Alias Traversal technique, which was introduced at the Blackhat conference back in 2018. This technique allows access to files and directories located outside the root directory specified in the "alias" directive. The issue only manifests in configurations where the "alias" directive is placed inside a "location" block, and its parameter does not end with the character […]

Release of Multimedia Library SDL 2.28.0. Transitioning to SDL 3.0 Development

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After seven months of development, the release of the SDL 2.28.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library has been published. This library aims to simplify the writing of games and multimedia applications. SDL provides features such as hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics output, input handling, sound playback, and 3D rendering via OpenGL/OpenGL ES/Vulkan, among other related operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the Zlib license. […]

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