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The first alpha release of the new branch of the PHP programming language 8.2 has been announced. The release is scheduled for November 24. Major innovations already available for testing or planned for implementation in PHP 8.2 include: the addition of distinct types "false" and "null," which can be used, for example, to return a function's error completion indication or an empty value. Previously, "false" and "null" could only be used in […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-31214) has been identified in the Firejail application sandboxing utility, allowing a local user to gain root privileges on the host system. A working exploit is publicly available, tested on current releases of openSUSE, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, and Fedora with the firejail utility installed. The issue has been fixed in firejail release 0.9.70. As a workaround, configuration settings can be adjusted in (/etc/firejail/firejail.config) […]
The release of the Linux distribution Bottlerocket 1.8.0 has been announced, developed with participation from Amazon for the effective and secure deployment of isolated containers. The distribution's tooling and management components are written in Rust and released under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. Bottlerocket supports deployment in Amazon ECS clusters, VMware, and AWS EKS Kubernetes, as well as the creation of custom builds and editions allowing for […]
Barry Kauler, the founder of the Puppy Linux project, has published an experimental distribution EasyOS 4.0, combining Puppy Linux technologies with container isolation for running system components. The distribution is managed through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. The size of the boot image is 773 MB. Features of the distribution: Each application, as well as the desktop itself, can be launched in separate containers for isolation […]
The release of HTTP server Apache 2.4.53 has been announced, featuring 19 changes and fixing 8 vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-31813 — a vulnerability in mod_proxy that allows blocking the transmission of X-Forwarded-* headers containing information about the IP address from which the original request came. This issue can be exploited to bypass IP address access restrictions. CVE-2022-30556 — a vulnerability in mod_lua that allows access to data beyond […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.4 user environment has been formed, within which the community of Linux Mint developers is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, the Nautilus file manager, and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2 style environment with support for successful interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]
The release of the desktop-oriented operating system MidnightBSD 2.2 has taken place, based on FreeBSD with elements ported from DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. The basic desktop environment is built on GNUstep, but users have the option to install WindowMaker, GNOME, Xfce, or Lumina. A bootable image of 774 MB (x86, amd64) is prepared for download. Unlike other desktop builds of FreeBSD, the MidnightBSD OS was initially developed […]
The package maintainer for the Qt framework in Debian has announced the formation of packages with the Qt6 branch for Debian 11. The set includes 29 packages with various components of Qt 6.2.4 and a package with the libassimp library supporting 3D model formats. The packages are available for installation through the backports system (repository bullseye-backports). Initially, there were no plans to maintain packages for […]
The release of the PoCL 3.0 project (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) has been announced, advancing the implementation of the OpenCL standard, independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers, and allowing 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, and various specialized platforms […]
The release of the Apache CloudStack 4.17 cloud platform has taken place, allowing the automation of deployment, configuration, and maintenance of private, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure (IaaS, infrastructure as a service). The CloudStack platform was handed over to the Apache Foundation by Citrix, which acquired the project after the acquisition of Cloud.com. Installation packages have been prepared for CentOS, Ubuntu, and openSUSE. CloudStack is hypervisor-agnostic and allows the use of […]
Researchers from Intezer and BlackBerry have discovered malware codenamed Simbiote that is used to implant backdoors and rootkits on compromised servers running Linux. The malware has been detected on systems of financial institutions in several Latin American countries. To install Simbiote in the system, the attacker must have root access, which can be obtained, for example, as a result of […]
After a year of development, the release of the Regolith 2.0 desktop environment, developed by the creators of the eponymous Linux distribution, is now available. Regolith is based on GNOME session management technologies and the i3 window manager. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Packages for Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 and Debian 11 are prepared for download. The project is positioned as a modern desktop environment, developed for faster execution of typical […]