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The release of the oVirt virtualization infrastructure management system 4.5.0.

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The oVirt 4.5.0 release has been presented, based on the KVM hypervisor and the libvirt library, a platform for deploying, maintaining, and monitoring virtual machines and managing cloud infrastructure. The virtualization management technologies developed in oVirt are used in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product and can serve as an open alternative to VMware vSphere. Apart from Red Hat, other companies are also participating in the development […]

A vulnerability in libinput leads to code execution when a malicious device is connected.

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In the libinput 1.20.1 library, which provides a unified input stack allowing the same event handling tools for input devices in both Wayland and X.Org environments, a vulnerability (CVE-2022-1215) has been addressed. This vulnerability enables the execution of arbitrary code when connecting a specially crafted/emulated input device to the system. The issue manifests in both X.Org and Wayland environments and can be […]

A preliminary version of the WebAssembly 2.0 standard is now available.

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The W3C consortium has published a draft of a new specification that standardizes the intermediate code of WebAssembly 2.0 along with its associated API, enabling the creation of high-performance applications that are portable across browsers and hardware platforms. WebAssembly provides a browser-independent universal low-level intermediate code for executing applications compiled from various programming languages. By leveraging JIT for WebAssembly, performance levels close to […]

Release of Solaris 11.4 SRU44

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Oracle has released an update for Solaris 11.4 SRU 44 (Support Repository Update), which includes a series of additional fixes and enhancements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes included in the update, simply execute the command 'pkg update'. Users can also take advantage of the free Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment) edition, developed using a continuous release model for new […]

The ability to generate dummy ECDSA signatures in Java SE. Vulnerabilities in MySQL, VirtualBox, and Solaris.

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Oracle has released a scheduled update for its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at addressing critical issues and vulnerabilities. The April update has resolved a total of 520 vulnerabilities. Some issues include 6 security problems in Java SE. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication and affect environments that allow the execution of untrusted code. Two issues […]

Release of VirtualBox 6.1.34

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Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.34 virtualization system, which includes 27 fixes. The new version also addresses 5 vulnerabilities rated from 7.8 to 3.8 in terms of severity. Details about the vulnerabilities are not yet disclosed, but it is known that the most critical issue only manifests on Windows systems. Key changes: Enhancements for host and guest […]

Pre-release of AlmaLinux 9, based on the RHEL 9 branch.

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A beta release of the AlmaLinux 9 distribution has been introduced, built using packages from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 branch and containing all changes proposed in this release. Builds are prepared for x86_64, ARM64, s390x, and ppc64le architectures in the form of a bootable image (780 MB), a minimal image (1.7 GB), and a full image (8 GB). Releases of RHEL 9 and AlmaLinux 9 are expected in early […]

Release of QEMU 7.0

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The release of QEMU 7.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows running a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for instance, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's performance for running code in an isolated environment is close to that of a physical system due to direct execution of instructions on the CPU and utilizing […]

A PPA has been proposed for Ubuntu to improve Wayland support in Qt.

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For the Ubuntu 22.04 distribution, scheduled for release on April 21, a PPA repository has been prepared with the qtwayland module, in which fixes from the Qt 5.15.3 branch, accompanied by the KDE project, have been transferred to improve Wayland protocol support. The package also includes changes necessary for the correct operation of qtwayland on systems with proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Additionally, there are plans to add the proposed […]

The movement towards including proprietary firmware in the Debian distribution.

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Steve McIntyre, who has served as the leader of the Debian project for several years, has initiated a rethinking of Debian's approach to supplying proprietary firmware, which is currently not included in official installation images and is provided in a separate non-free repository. According to Steve, attempts to achieve the ideal of supplying only open source software lead to unnecessary difficulties […]

Release of Git 2.36 Version Control System

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After three months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.36 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to 'backward' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, […]

Pgfe 2 is available, a client-side C++ API for PostgreSQL.

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The first stable release of Pgfe 2 (PostGres FrontEnd) has been published, an advanced and multifunctional driver (client API) for PostgreSQL, written in C++, simplifying interaction with PostgreSQL in C++ projects. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. A compiler that supports the C++17 standard is required for building. Key features include: Connection in blocking and non-blocking modes. Handling of prepared […]

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