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The release of the rclone 1.59 utility has been published, which is an alternative to rsync, designed for copying and synchronizing data between a local system and various cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Mail.ru Cloud, and Yandex.Disk. The project code is written in Go and is distributed under the […]
The developers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have announced a plan to require two-factor authentication for packages categorized as critical. The importance is determined by the number of downloads, and the change will apply to the accounts of maintainers and owners of projects linked to 1% of the most downloaded packages over the past six months. Currently, the PyPI repository includes over […]
The fourth point release of the Debian 11 distribution has been published, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release features 81 updates addressing stability problems and 79 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.4 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as apache2, clamav, postfix, network-manager, ganeti, libtgowt, nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-persistenced, nvidia-settings, […]
The release of the cross-platform client-server backup system Bacula 13.0.0 has been announced. The 12.x branch was skipped to separate version numbering between free and commercial editions — odd numbers are used for the free version, while even numbers are used for the commercial version. The free version of Bacula is distributed under the AGPLv3 license, but excessive control over development and functionality reduction in favor of the commercial version […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.26 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the basic Wayland protocol and provide features necessary for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases — development, testing, and stabilization. After the development stage is completed (the 'unstable' category), the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols set, […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has published the release of the nDPI toolkit for deep packet inspection 4.4, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established following an unsuccessful attempt to submit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has been left unsupported. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for identifying protocols used in traffic […]
After 9 years since the release of the 3.0 branch, the first release of the new stable branch of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.2.0 has been announced, allowing for the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX, and mobile platforms. Compared to the 3.0 branch, a number of API-level incompatibilities have been observed. The toolkit is written in C++ and is distributed under the wxWindows Library License, which is approved […]
The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.2 has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The output can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. Initially, the system was created between 1985 and 1995 at the Hewlett Packard laboratory, in […]
The developers of the Ubuntu MATE distribution, built on the Ubuntu package base and offering a desktop environment based on the MATE project, have announced the formation of builds for Raspberry Pi boards. The builds are based on the Ubuntu MATE 22.04 release and are prepared for both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards. Notable features include: Default inclusion of the zswap mechanism and the lz4 algorithm for […]
Lennart Poettering, creator of projects such as Avahi (an implementation of the ZeroConf protocol), the PulseAudio sound server, and the system manager systemd, has resigned from Red Hat, where he worked since 2008 and led the development of systemd. His new workplace is said to be Microsoft, where Lennart's activities will also be related to the development of systemd. Microsoft uses […]
A corrective release of Firefox 102.0.1 is now available, addressing several shortcomings: Fixed an issue that prevented spell checking in content that combined words in English and non-Latin-based languages. For example, the issue prevented the identification of errors in Cyrillic text when both English and Russian dictionaries were enabled. A bug causing flickering white background has been fixed in […]
Oracle has released stable versions of the Oracle Linux 9 distribution and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 (UEK R7), positioned for use within the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard kernel package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Oracle Linux 9 distribution is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 package base and is fully binary compatible with […]