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GitHub has restricted competing services from conducting comparative testing.

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An additional paragraph has been added to the terms of use for the GitHub service, notifying users that if they offer a product or service that competes with GitHub, they either allow comparative testing or are prohibited from using GitHub. This change aims to counter products or services using GitHub that compete with GitHub, particularly those that explicitly prohibit competitive testing (anti-benchmarking) in their terms […]

The first release of the open-source multiplayer game engine Ambient

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After a year of development, the first release of the new open game engine Ambient is presented. The engine provides a runtime for creating multiplayer games and 3D applications, compiled to WebAssembly and utilizing the WebGPU API for rendering. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. A key task in developing Ambient is to provide tools that simplify the development of multiplayer games and make them […]

GNOME Mutter will discontinue support for older versions of OpenGL

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The codebase of the composite server Mutter, which will be used in the release of GNOME 44, has been modified to remove support for older versions of OpenGL. Drivers supporting at least OpenGL 3.1 will be required for Mutter to function. However, support for OpenGL ES 2.0 will be retained in Mutter, allowing continued functionality on older graphics cards and on GPUs used in […]

Official Ubuntu releases will cease support for Flatpak in the base installation

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Philipp Kewisch from Canonical announced the decision not to enable the installation of packages in the Flatpak format by default in the official editions of Ubuntu. This decision has been coordinated with the developers of the existing official editions of Ubuntu, which include Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Unity. Those wishing to use the Flatpak format will need […]

Release of SQLite DBMS 3.41

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SQLite 3.41 has been released, a lightweight database management system presented as a shared library. The SQLite code is released as public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. The developers of SQLite receive financial support from a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: Optimizations have been made to the scheduler […]

The promotion plan for the Intel GPU Xe driver into the Linux kernel has been published.

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Daniel Vetter, an engineer at Intel and one of the maintainers of the DRM subsystem, published in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list the promotion plan for patches implementing the Xe driver, intended for use with GPUs based on Intel's Xe architecture, which is employed in Arc family graphics cards and integrated graphics starting from Tiger Lake processors. The Xe driver is positioned […]

The decentralized communication platform Jami 'Vilagfa' is now available.

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A new release of the decentralized communication platform Jami has been introduced, codenamed “Világfa”. The project aims to create a P2P communication system that enables both large group conversations and individual calls while providing a high level of privacy and security. Jami, formerly known as Ring and SFLphone, is among the GNU projects and […]

Release of Alt Server 10.1

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The release of the Alt Server 10.1 distribution has taken place, built on the ALT 10 platform (branch p10 Aronia). The distribution is provided under a License Agreement that allows free use by individuals, but legal entities are only permitted to test it, and must purchase a commercial license or enter into a written licensing agreement for use. Installation images are prepared for x86_64, AArch64 architectures and […]

Beta release of the openSUSE Leap 15.5 distribution

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The development of openSUSE Leap 15.5 has entered the beta testing phase. The release is based on a core set of packages that are identical to those in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 5 distribution and also includes some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD image, sized at 4.3 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), is available for download. The release of openSUSE Leap 15.4 is expected in early June […]

The Fish shell is planned to be rewritten in Rust.

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Peter Ammon, the leader of the Fish interactive shell development team, has published a plan to translate the project’s development to Rust. The shell is planned to be incrementally translated from C++ to Rust, module by module, rather than being completely rewritten from scratch. According to the Fish developers, using Rust will address multithreading issues and provide a more modern and effective error-detection toolkit […]

Release of debugger GDB 13.

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The release of GDB 13.1 has been announced (the first release in the 13.x series; branch 13.0 was used for development). GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Go, Objective-C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, […]

Release of Linux Kernel 6.2

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.2. Among the most notable changes: acceptance of code under the Copyleft-Next license has been allowed, RAID5/6 implementation in Btrfs has been improved, the integration of Rust support has continued, overheads in protecting against Retbleed attacks have been reduced, and the ability to regulate memory consumption during reverse writing has been added; a PLB (Protective Load Balancing) mechanism for TCP has also been introduced […]

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