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A significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 12.0 has been created, which has transitioned to the Firefox 102 ESR branch. The browser focuses on providing anonymity, security, and privacy; all traffic is routed only through the Tor network. It is impossible to connect directly through the current system's standard network connection, which prevents tracking the user's actual IP address (in case the browser is hacked, attackers may gain access […]
The developers of the gccrs project (GCC Rust) have released the fourth edition of patches implementing the frontend of the Rust language compiler for GCC. It is noted that this new edition addresses nearly all comments previously raised during the review of the proposed code, and the patches meet all technical requirements for code added to GCC. Richard Biener, one of the maintainers of GCC, mentioned that the code now […]
Amazon has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims. By joining OIN, the company has demonstrated its commitment to collaborative innovation and non-aggressive patent management. Amazon considers Linux and open-source software key factors in driving innovation within the company. It is noted that the aim of Amazon joining OIN is to strengthen […]
After two and a half years of development, a significant release of the ProFTPD FTP server 1.3.8 has been published, with strengths in extensibility and functionality, but weaknesses due to the periodic discovery of critical vulnerabilities. Additionally, a patch release of ProFTPD 1.3.7f is available, which will be the last in the ProFTPD 1.3.7 series. Key innovations in ProFTPD 1.3.8 include the implementation of support for the FTP command CSID (Client/Server ID), which can be used to send information […]
The release of the Armbian 22.11 Linux distribution has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. Debian package repositories are used to build the images […]
The release of FreeBSD 12.4 has been announced. Installation images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments like Amazon EC2 have been prepared. FreeBSD 12.4 will be the last update for the 12.x branch, which will be supported until December 31, 2023. An update for FreeBSD […] will be prepared in the spring.
The release of the PoCL 3.1 project (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) has been announced, which develops the implementation of the OpenCL standard, independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers and allowing for the use of various backends to execute OpenCL kernels on different types of graphics and central processors. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. It supports operation on X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU, NVIDIA GPU platforms, and various specialized […]
The release of the FerretDB 0.7 project has been published, allowing for the replacement of the document-oriented database MongoDB with PostgreSQL without changing application code. FerretDB is implemented as a proxy server, translating MongoDB queries into SQL requests to PostgreSQL, enabling the use of PostgreSQL as the actual storage. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The need for migration may arise due to […]
Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-41034) has been identified in the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor, allowing for code execution when a user opens a link crafted by an attacker. Code can be executed both on the computer with VS Code and on any other computers connected to VS Code using the ‘Remote Development’ feature. This issue poses the greatest danger to […]
The release of the Live distribution NomadBSD 131R-20221130 is available, which represents a FreeBSD edition adapted for use as a portable desktop that can be booted from a USB drive. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. DSBMD is used for mounting drives (supporting CD9660, FAT, HFS+, NTFS, Ext2/3/4 mounting). The size of the boot image is 2 GB (x86_64, i386). In the new release: The base environment has been updated to FreeBSD 13.1. […]
The release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2022.10 has been published, which replaces the binary distribution OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which advances the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and the basic set of user system utilities […]
Participants in the Fosshost project, which provides virtual servers for free projects, have announced the impossibility of continuing their services and anticipate the imminent shutdown of the company’s servers. The issues at Fosshost have arisen because Thomas Markey, the company director, has not been in contact for over six months, and without him, it has been impossible to resolve both financial and technical matters. Access […]