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Release of Samba 4.17.0

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The release of Samba 4.17.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a complete implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2008 implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server, printing service, and identification server (winbind) implementations. Key changes […]

The server-side Linux distribution SME Server 10.1 is now available.

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The release of the server-oriented Linux distribution SME Server 10.1 has been announced, built on the package base of CentOS 7 and designed for use in the server infrastructure of small and medium businesses. A key feature of the distribution is the presence of pre-configured standard components, fully ready to operate and configurable through a web interface. Among such components are a mail server with spam filtering, a web server, and a print server, […]

Release of Polemarch 2.0, a web interface for Ansible.

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The release of Polemarch 2.0.0, a web interface for managing server infrastructure based on Ansible, has taken place. The project code is written in Python and JavaScript using the Django and Celery frameworks. The project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. To run the system, it is sufficient to install the package and launch 1 service. For industrial use, it is additionally recommended to use MySQL/PostgreSQL and Redis/RabbitMQ+Redis (cache and MQ broker). For […]

The Fedora Linux 37 distribution has entered beta testing phase.

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Testing of the beta version of the Fedora Linux 37 distribution has begun. The beta release marks the transition to the final testing stage, during which only critical errors are allowed to be corrected. The release is scheduled for October 18. The release covers Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, and Live images provided in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, […]

A cross-platform web browser, Ladybird, has been introduced.

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The developers of the SerenityOS operating system have introduced Ladybird, a cross-platform web browser based on the LibWeb engine and the LibJS JavaScript interpreter, which have been under development by the project since 2019. The graphical interface is based on the Qt library. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. It supports operation on Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL), and Android. The interface is designed in a classic style and supports tabs. […]

WD is developing an NVMe driver in Rust. Experiments with Rust in FreeBSD

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At the ongoing Linux Plumbers Conference 2022, an engineer from Western Digital presented a report on the development of an experimental driver for SSDs with the NVM-Express (NVMe) interface, written in Rust and operating at the Linux kernel level. Although the project is still in its early stages, testing has shown that the performance of the NVMe driver is […]

Release NNCP 8.8.0, a utility for file/command transfer in store-and-forward mode.

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The Node-to-Node CoPy (NNCP) has been released, a set of utilities for secure file transfers, email, and commands in store-and-forward mode. It supports operation on POSIX-compliant operating systems. The utilities are written in Go and are distributed under the GPLv3 license. They are aimed at helping to build small peer-to-peer friend-to-friend networks (dozens of nodes) with static routing for secure file transfers […]

Significant performance degradation in kernel 5.19 caused by defense against the Retbleed attack.

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An engineer from VMware drew the attention of the Linux kernel developer community to a significant drop in performance when using Linux kernel 5.19. Testing a virtual machine with kernel 5.19 in the VMware ESXi hypervisor environment showed a 70% drop in computational performance, a 30% reduction in network operations, and a 13% decrease in storage actions compared to the same configuration based on kernel […]

Continued development of GNOME Shell for mobile devices

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Jonas Dressler from the GNOME project published a report on the work done over the past few months to enhance the capabilities of the GNOME Shell for use on smartphones and tablets with touchscreen interfaces. The work is funded by the German Ministry of Education, which provided GNOME developers with a grant under an initiative to support socially significant software projects. The current state of development can be reviewed […]

Release of the GNU Shepherd initialization system 0.9.2

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The GNU Shepherd 0.9.2 service manager (formerly dmd) has been released, developed by the GNU Guix System distribution team as an alternative to the SysV-init initialization system, which supports dependencies. The managing daemon and Shepherd utilities are written in Guile (one of the implementations of the Scheme language), which is also used to define the settings and parameters for launching services. Shepherd is already utilized in the GuixSD GNU/Linux distribution and […]

Debian 11.5 and 10.13 Update

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The fifth corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, including accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release includes 58 updates addressing stability issues and 53 updates for security vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.5 include: Updated to the latest stable versions of packages clamav, grub2, grub-efi-*-signed, mokutil, nvidia-graphics-drivers*, nvidia-settings. The cargo-mozilla package has been added […]

The free audio codec FLAC 1.4 has been released.

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After nine years since the last significant version release, the Xiph.Org community has presented a new version of the free codec FLAC 1.4.0, which provides lossless audio encoding. FLAC employs only lossless coding methods that ensure complete preservation of the original sound stream's quality and its identity with the reference version that has been encoded. Additionally, the compression methods used are […]

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