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Grafana has opened the source code for its Incident Response system OnCall

Grafana Labs, the company behind the Grafana data visualization platform and the Prometheus monitoring system, has announced the release of the source code for the OnCall incident response system, designed to facilitate collaboration among teams for incident resolution and analysis. OnCall was previously provided as a proprietary product and was acquired by Grafana through the acquisition of Amixr Inc. last year. The project code […]

PostgreSQL 14.4 Update with Index Corruption Fix

A corrective release of the PostgreSQL 14.4 database management system has been formed, which addresses a serious issue that, under certain circumstances, may lead to undetected data corruption in indexes when executing the 'CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY' and 'REINDEX CONCURRENTLY' commands. Certain entries may be omitted in the indexes created with these commands, resulting in missing rows when executing SELECT queries involving problematic […]

Tauri 1.0 — a competing platform to Electron for building user applications

The release of Tauri 1.0 has been published, developing a framework for creating cross-platform user applications with graphical interfaces built using web technologies. Essentially, Tauri resembles the Electron platform but features a different architecture and lower resource consumption. The project's code is written in Rust and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The application logic is defined in JavaScript, HTML, and […]

Release of Cambalache 0.10, a tool for developing GTK interfaces.

The release of Cambalache 0.10.0 has been announced, which develops a rapid interface development tool for GTK 3 and GTK 4, utilizing the MVC paradigm and the philosophy of prioritizing the data model. Unlike Glade, Cambalache provides support for managing multiple user interfaces within a single project. The code is written in Python and available under the LGPLv2.1 license. A package is available for installation in the […]

The author of the Sway shell and the Hare language is developing a new microkernel, Helios, and the Ares operating system.

Drew DeVault has introduced his new project — the Helios microkernel. The project is currently in its early development stage and only supports demonstration booting on x86_64 architecture systems. Future plans include support for iscv64 and aarch64 architectures. The project's code is written in Hare, a systems programming language close to C, with assembly insertions and […]

The monolithic distribution of Ubuntu Core 22 is available.

Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 22, a compact version of the Ubuntu distribution tailored for use on Internet of Things (IoT) devices, containers, consumer, and industrial equipment. Ubuntu Core is delivered as an indivisible monolithic image of the base system, without breaking it down into separate deb packages. Ubuntu Core 22 images are synchronized with the package base of Ubuntu 22.04, […]

Hertzbleed — a new family of side-channel attacks affecting modern CPUs

A group of researchers from the University of Texas, the University of Illinois, and the University of Washington has revealed information about a new family of side-channel attacks (CVE-2022-23823, CVE-2022-24436) dubbed Hertzbleed. The proposed attack method is based on the features of dynamic frequency management in modern processors and affects all current Intel and AMD CPUs. The issue may also manifest in processors from other manufacturers that support dynamic frequency scaling […]

Release of the EuroLinux 9.0 distribution, compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The release of the EuroLinux 9.0 distribution has been published, prepared by recompiling the source texts of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 packages and is fully binary compatible with it. Installation images of 6.5 GB (appstream) and 1.4 GB are available for download. The distribution is functionally analogous to RHEL 9.0 with the added innovations. EuroLinux builds are available both through a paid subscription and for free. […]

Valve has released Proton 7.0-3, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has released Proton 7.0-3, which is based on the Wine project’s codebase and aims to enable the launch of Windows-created gaming applications on Linux that are listed in the Steam catalog. The project’s developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Windows-only games to be run directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes […]

Release of the free CAD software FreeCAD 0.20

After over a year of development, the release of the open source parametric 3D modeling system FreeCAD 0.20 has been published, featuring flexible customization options and increased functionality through the addition of plugins. The interface is built using the Qt library. Plugins can be created in Python. It supports saving and loading models in various formats, including STEP, IGES, and STL. The FreeCAD code is distributed under […]

In Firefox, full Cookie isolation mode is enabled by default.

Mozilla has announced the default inclusion of Total Cookie Protection for all users. Previously, this mode was only enabled when opening websites in private browsing mode and when selecting strict blocking for unwanted content. The proposed protection method implies the use of an isolated storage for cookies for each site, preventing […]

RubyGems is transitioning to mandatory two-factor authentication for popular packages.

To protect against account takeover attacks aimed at gaining control over dependencies, the RubyGems package repository has announced the implementation of mandatory two-factor authentication for accounts maintaining the 100 most popular packages (by download count), as well as packages with more than 165 million downloads. The use of two-factor authentication will significantly complicate access in case of compromise […]

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