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The Linux kernel 6.0, which is expected to be released next Monday, includes a change that addresses performance issues in systems with AMD Zen processors. The source of the performance drop was code added 20 years ago to work around a hardware problem present in some chipsets. The hardware issue has long been resolved and does not affect current chipsets, but the old workaround was forgotten and became […]
The Wine project has released version 1.5 of the vkd3d package, featuring Direct3D 12 implementation that operates through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libraries libvkd3d with Direct3D 12 implementations, libvkd3d-shader with the translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions for simplifying the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration examples, including the port of glxgears […]
The LeanQt project has begun developing a trimmed-down branch of Qt 5, aimed at simplifying the build from source and integration with applications. LeanQt is being developed by Rochus Keller, the author of a compiler and development environment for the Oberon language, tied to Qt 5, with the aim of simplifying the compilation of his product with minimal dependencies while maintaining support for current platforms. […]
After twenty months of development, a new version of the GNU Bash command interpreter 5.2 has been released, which is the default in most Linux distributions. At the same time, the release of the readline library 8.2 has been announced, used in bash for managing command line editing. Key improvements include: The code for parsing command substitution (command substitution, the replacement of output from another command execution, for example, '$(command)') has been rewritten […]
The developers of the OpenBSD project have introduced a new release of the Got (Game of Trees) version control system, focusing primarily on simplicity of design and use. Got stores versioned data in a repository compatible with the disk format of Git repositories, allowing interaction with the repository using both Got and Git tools. For example, Git can be used to perform operations […]
After nearly two years of development, the release of the independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.7 has been finalized, which has been developed since 2001 under the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) concept and is aimed at experienced users. The goal of the project is to create a simple and transparent distribution for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, with a maximally simplified structure and relatively few ready-made […]
A corrective release of the Redis database management system 7.0.5 has been published, which addresses a vulnerability (CVE-2022-35951) that potentially allows an attacker to execute their code with the Redis process's permissions. The issue only affects the 7.x branch and requires access to execute queries for the attack to take place. The vulnerability is caused by an integer overflow occurring when an invalid value for the 'COUNT' parameter is specified in the 'XAUTOCLAIM' command. When used in the context of stream keys […]
The OpenAI project, which focuses on the development of publicly accessible artificial intelligence systems, has released findings related to the Whisper speech recognition system. It is claimed that for English speech, the system achieves reliability and accuracy levels in automatic recognition that are close to human recognition. The code for the reference implementation based on the PyTorch framework and a set of already trained models ready for use has been made publicly available […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.18 has been announced. Since the release of version 7.17, 20 bug reports have been closed and 252 changes have been made. The most significant changes are: Symbol tables have been updated to Unicode specification 15.0.0. Support for WoW64 has been implemented in the macOS driver, a layer for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. Issues with asynchronous reading in the implementation have been resolved […]
The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 7.2.0 has been published, featuring a server for the ONLYOFFICE online editors and facilitating collaborative work. The editors can be used for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project code is distributed under the AGPLv3 free license. At the same time, the release of the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 7.2 product has been formed, built on a unified codebase with the online editors. The desktop editors are designed as desktop applications […]
Corrective updates for stable branches of the BIND DNS server versions 9.16.33 and 9.18.7 have been released, along with a new release of the experimental branch 9.19.5. The new versions address vulnerabilities that may lead to denial of service: CVE-2022-2795 - significant performance degradation may occur when delegating large volumes, causing the server to be unable to handle requests. CVE-2022-2881 - buffer overflow during reading, […]
The developers of Arch Linux have announced the discontinuation of Python 2 packages in the project's repositories. The Python 2 branch was declared unsupported back in January 2020, but it took considerable time to gradually phase out packages tied to Python 2. Users who require Python 2 are given the option to retain the packages in the system, but […]