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The NT Center for IT ROSA has released a corrective update for the freely distributed and community-developed ROSA Fresh 12.3 distribution, built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Builds for free download have been prepared for the x86_64 platform in versions with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce, and without a GUI. Users who already have the ROSA Fresh R12 distribution installed will receive the update automatically. […]
A corrective release of Firefox 106.0.4 is now available, which has fixed several issues: crashes during video playback with digital rights management (DRM), inability to fill in the date input field when dynamically changing the field type from date to datetime-local, and crashes when playing multimedia content. A few days ago, release 106.0.3 was also formed which fixed two […]
A new release of the 9front project is now available, within which the community has been developing an independent fork of the distributed operating system Plan 9 since 2011, separate from Bell Labs. Ready installation builds have been prepared for the i386, x86_64 architectures and Raspberry Pi 1-4 boards. The project's code is distributed under the open Lucent Public License, based on the IBM Public License, but differing in the lack of a requirement […]
Mark Surman, the head of the Mozilla Foundation, announced the creation of Mozilla Ventures, a venture fund that will invest in startups promoting products and technologies aligned with Mozilla's ideals and manifesto. The fund will begin operating in the first half of 2023, with an initial investment size of at least 35 million dollars. Among the values that startup teams should share, […]
The first release of the high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server, Angie, has been published by a group of former developers from the Nginx project who left F5 Networks. The source code for Angie is available under the BSD license. To support the development of the project and continue supporting Nginx users in Russia, a company called 'Web Server' has been created, which received an investment of 1 million dollars. Among the co-owners of the new company are: Valentin […]
The non-profit fund overseeing the development of the anonymous Tor network has published its financial report for the 2021 fiscal year (from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021). During the reporting period, the project's funding amounted to 7.4 million dollars (compared to 4.8 million in the 2020 fiscal year). Approximately 1.7 million dollars was earned through the sale of […]
GitHub has expanded the mandatory two-factor authentication in the NPM repository, which will now apply to developer accounts maintaining packages with over 1 million downloads per week or used as dependencies in more than 500 packages. Previously, two-factor authentication was only mandatory for those maintaining the 500 most popular NPM packages (based on the number of dependent packages). Those maintaining significant packages will now […]
Andrey Savchenko from the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Higher School of Economics published the results of his research in the field of machine learning related to emotion recognition in the faces of people present in photographs and videos. The code is written in Python using PyTorch and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Several ready-to-use models are available, including those suitable for mobile devices. […]
TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U3 has been released, a distribution for quickly deploying Network-Attached Storage (NAS) that continues the development of the FreeNAS project. TrueNAS CORE 13 is based on the FreeBSD 13 codebase, features integrated support for ZFS, and offers management through a web interface built using the Django Python framework. Access to the storage is supported via FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and iSCSI, for […]
A patch release of the OpenSSL cryptographic library 3.0.7 has been published, addressing two vulnerabilities. Both issues are caused by buffer overflows in the code that checks the email field in X.509 certificates and could potentially lead to code execution when processing specially crafted certificates. At the time of the release, OpenSSL developers have not reported any confirmed working exploits that could lead to execution […]
The release of exfatprogs 1.2.0 has been published, developing the official set of Linux utilities for creating and verifying exFAT file systems, which replaces the outdated exfat-utils package and accompanies the new exFAT driver built into the Linux kernel (available starting with kernel release 5.7). The set includes the utilities mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat, tune.exfat, exfatlabel, dump.exfat, and exfat2img. The code is written in C and is distributed […]
After five months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 252 has been presented. The key change in the new version is the integration of support for an upgraded boot process, allowing for the verification of digital signatures not only for the kernel and bootloader but also for components of the base system environment. The proposed method involves using a unified kernel image (UKI) for booting, which combines the kernel boot handler […]