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Following the announcement of RHEL 9, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6. Installation builds are prepared for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 architectures, but are only available for download to registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal. The source texts of rpm packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 are distributed via the CentOS Git repository. The 8.x branch, which […]
In the May update of the Dasharo project, which develops an open firmware set based on CoreBoot, an open firmware implementation for the MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 motherboard was introduced. This motherboard supports the LGA 1700 socket and the current 12th generation (Alder Lake) Intel Core, Pentium Gold, and Celeron processors. In addition to the MSI PRO Z690-A, the project also provides open firmware for Dell motherboards […]
The release of the Pale Moon 31.0 web browser has been announced, which forked from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher efficiency, maintain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic interface layout, without […]
Docker Inc has announced the release of a Linux version of the Docker Desktop application, which provides a graphical interface for creating, running, and managing containers. Previously, the application was available only for Windows and macOS. Installation packages for Linux are prepared in deb and rpm formats for Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora distributions. Additionally, experimental packages for ArchLinux are offered and packages for […] are being prepared for publication.
The developers of the Rust language have warned about the discovery of a package rustdecimal in the crates.io repository, containing malicious code. The package was based on a legitimate package called rust_decimal and exploited a similarity in naming (typosquatting) hoping that users would not notice the absence of an underscore when searching or selecting a module from the list. Notably, this strategy proved to be successful […]
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The ready installation images will soon be available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (ISO images of CentOS Stream 9 can also be used for functionality evaluation). The release is built for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. The source texts of the RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise […]
The release of Fedora Linux 36 has been announced. Products including Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, CoreOS, Fedora IoT Edition, and Live images with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt are available for download. The builds are designed for x86_64, Power64, ARM64 (AArch64), and various devices with 32-bit ARM processors. The publication of Fedora Silverblue builds has been delayed. […]
Intel has released ControlFlag 1.2, a toolkit that allows for the identification of errors and anomalies in source texts using a machine learning system trained on a large volume of existing code. Unlike traditional static analyzers, ControlFlag does not apply pre-made rules that struggle to cover all possible scenarios, but is based on statistics of usage of various language constructs across a vast number of existing […]
Microsoft has released the first stable update of the new branch of the CBL-Mariner 2.0 (Common Base Linux Mariner) distribution, which is developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project aims to unify the Linux solutions applied by Microsoft and simplify the maintenance of Linux systems for various purposes. Project developments are distributed under the […]
Ben Johnson, the author of the NoSQL storage system BoltDB, has introduced the Litestream project, which provides an extension for organizing data replication in SQLite. Litestream does not require changes to SQLite and can work with any applications using this library. Replication is managed by a separate background process that tracks changes in the database files and transfers them to another file or to […]
The Chrome OS 101 operating system release is available, based on the Linux kernel, with the upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and web browser Chrome 101. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are used; however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The Chrome OS 101 build […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-29176) has been discovered in the RubyGems.org package repository that allows unauthorized substitution of certain foreign packages in the repository by initiating the withdrawal (yank) of a legitimate package and uploading a different file with the same name and version number in its place. Three conditions must be met for successful exploitation: the attack can only be performed on packages with names […]