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A new twist in the investigation related to GPL license violations by Vizio Inc.

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The software freedom advocacy organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has reported a new phase in its lawsuit against Vizio, accused of failing to meet GPL licensing requirements while distributing firmware for smart TVs based on the SmartCast platform. SFC representatives succeeded in moving the case from the U.S. Federal Court back to the California State District Court, which has significant implications regarding the classification of GPL […]

Release of FreeBSD 13.1

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After a year of development, FreeBSD 13.1 has been released. Installation images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additional builds have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. In the new version: An iwlwifi driver for Intel wireless cards with support for […]

Release of the Rocky Linux 8.6 distribution, developed by the founder of CentOS

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The release of the Rocky Linux 8.6 distribution has occurred, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS, after Red Hat abruptly ended support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, instead of 2029, as previously anticipated. This is the third stable release of the project, recognized as ready for production deployments. Rocky Linux builds have been prepared […]

Update Firefox 101.0.1. Strengthening Mozilla's requirements for Certificate Authorities

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A corrective release of Firefox 101.0.1 is available, notable for enhancing sandbox isolation on the Windows platform. The new version includes by default the blocking of access to the Win32k API (Win32 GUI components operating at the kernel level) from isolated content processing processes. This change was made ahead of the Pwn2Own 2022 competition, which will take place from May 18-20. Participants of Pwn2Own will demonstrate working exploitation techniques for previously unknown vulnerabilities and in […]

PAPPL 1.2 is available, a framework for organizing printing output

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Michael R Sweet, the author of the CUPS printing system, has released PAPPL 1.2, a framework for developing printing applications based on the IPP Everywhere protocol, which is recommended for use instead of traditional printer drivers. The framework code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license with an exception allowing linking with code under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. […]

A vulnerability in unrar allows overwriting files during archive extraction

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-30333) has been discovered in the unrar utility, allowing specially crafted archive extraction to overwrite files outside the current directory, subject to user permissions. The issue has been resolved in RAR 6.12 and unrar 6.1.7 releases. The vulnerability affects versions for Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, but does not impact builds for Android and Windows. The problem arises from inadequate checks against the ‘/..’ sequence […]

Release of the TrueNAS 13.0 distribution for creating network storage

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After a year and a half of development, iXsystems has released TrueNAS CORE 13, a distribution for quickly deploying network-attached storage (NAS). TrueNAS CORE 13 is based on the FreeBSD 13 codebase, featuring integrated ZFS support and management through a web interface built using the Django Python framework. It supports FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and […]

Release of the iptables 1.8.8 packet filter

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A new release of the classic toolkit for managing the iptables packet filter 1.8.8 has been published, with recent development focused on components to maintain backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables and ebtables, but translating the received rules into bytecode nf_tables. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables, is included in […]

Release of the NetworkManager 1.38.0 network configurator

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A stable release of the interface to simplify network parameter configuration — NetworkManager 1.38.0 is now available. Plugins for supporting VPN, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN, and OpenSWAN are developed under their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.38 include: The logic for selecting the source address has been revamped when multiple IP addresses exist on the network interface. The rules for establishing priority for IPv6 addresses have been aligned with the rules previously applied […]

Release of Alt Workstation K 10.0 Distribution

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The release of the Alt Workstation K 10 distribution has been published, shipped with a graphical environment based on KDE Plasma. Boot images have been prepared for the x86_64 architecture (HTTP, Yandex mirror, Distrib Coffee, Infania Networks). The operating system has been registered in the Unified Register of Russian Software and meets the requirements for transitioning to infrastructure based on domestic operating systems. The KDE-based build is the final part of the overall update […]

Release of the ONLYOFFICE Docs 7.1 office suite

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The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 7.1 has been published, implementing a server for online editors ONLYOFFICE and facilitating collaboration. The editors can be used to work with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project's code is distributed under the free license AGPLv3. At the same time, the release of the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 7.1 product has been formed, built on a unified codebase with the online editors. The desktop editors are presented as desktop applications, […]

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