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Release of Electron 19.0.0, an application framework based on the Chromium engine

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The release of the Electron 19.0.0 platform has been prepared, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications, using components from Chromium, V8, and Node.js as its foundation. The significant version change is associated with the update to Chromium codebase 102, Node.js platform 16.14.2, and JavaScript engine V8 10.2. Among the changes in the new release: A new method has been added to BrowserWindow that allows you to modify […]

Release of Chrome 102

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Google has released version 102 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the open-source project Chromium, which underpins Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash reporting system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, continuous Sandbox isolation, provision of Google API keys, and transmission of […]

Release of Stratis 3.1, a toolkit for managing local storage

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The release of version 3.1 of the Stratis project, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community for the unification and simplification of configuration and management tools for one or more local storage pools, has been published. Stratis provides features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. Stratis support has been integrated into Fedora and RHEL distributions since […]

Release of display server Mir 2.8

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The 2.8 release of the Mir display server has been introduced, continuing development by Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical’s projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing execution in environments […]

Release of Clonezilla Live 3.0.0 Distribution

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The release of the Clonezilla Live 3.0.0 Linux distribution, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied), has been announced. The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 356 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects like DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting from […]

Release of nginx 1.22.0

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After 13 months of development, a new stable branch of the high-performance HTTP server and multiprotocol proxy server nginx 1.22.0 has been released, incorporating changes collected in the main branch 1.21.x. In the future, all changes in the stable branch 1.22 will be focused on fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. A major branch of nginx 1.23 will soon be formed, in which development will continue […]

The OpenBSD project has released OpenIKED 7.1, a portable implementation of the IKEv2 protocol for IPsec

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The release of OpenIKED 7.1 has been published, which implements the IKEv2 protocol developed by the OpenBSD project. Initially, IKEv2 components were an inseparable part of the OpenBSD IPsec stack, but they are now separated into a portable package and can be used in other operating systems. For instance, the operation of OpenIKED has been verified on FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and various Linux distributions including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. The code is written in […]

Release of the minimalist distribution Alpine Linux 3.16

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The release of Alpine Linux 3.16 is available, a minimalist distribution built on the Musl standard library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution features enhanced security requirements and is compiled with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) enabled. OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its own package manager, apk, is utilized for package management. Alpine is used for creating official Docker container images. Bootable […]

Release of Linux Kernel 5.18

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 5.18. Among the most notable changes: a large cleanup of outdated functionality, the deprecation of the Reiserfs file system, the implementation of user process tracing events, added support for Intel's exploit mitigation technology IBT, included buffer overflow detection mode when using the memcpy() function, introduced fprobe function call tracking mechanism, and improved scheduler performance […]

Lotus 1-2-3 has been ported to Linux.

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Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google, ported the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software, released in 1988, to work on Linux. This was done out of curiosity, three years before Linux itself emerged. The port was based on a reworking of the executable files for UNIX, found in a warez archive on one of the BBS. This porting is interesting because […]

A malicious library pymafka has been detected in the Python package index PyPI.

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A library named pymafka containing malicious code has been identified in the PyPI (Python Package Index). The library was distributed under a name similar to the popular package pykafka, intending to trick inattentive users into confusing the substitute package with the main project (typosquatting). The malicious package was posted on May 17 and was downloaded 325 times before it was blocked. Inside the package, there was a 'setup.py' script that defined […]

Release of the system manager systemd 251

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After five months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 251 has been announced. Key changes include: enhanced system requirements. The minimum supported version of the Linux kernel has increased from 3.13 to 4.15. The presence of the CLOCK_BOOTTIME timer is required for operation. A compiler supporting the C11 standard and GNU extensions is needed for building (the C89 standard continues to be used for header files). An experimental utility, systemd-sysupdate, has been added for automatic […]

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