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Release of the Armbian 22.02 distribution

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The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 22.02 has been presented, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors. Debian package bases are used for building the distributions […]

An AlmaLinux distribution variant for the PowerPC architecture is now available.

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The AlmaLinux 8.5 distribution, previously released for x86_64 and ARM/AArch64 systems, now supports the PowerPC (ppc64l) architecture. Three types of ISO images are available for download: bootable (770 MB), minimal (1.8 GB), and full (9 GB). The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 and can be used as a drop-in replacement for CentOS 8. Changes consist of rebranding, […]

Release of Coreboot 4.16

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The release of CoreBoot 4.16 has been announced, which develops a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. 170 developers contributed to the new version, which includes 1770 changes. Major new features: support for 33 motherboards has been added, 22 of which are used in devices with Chrome OS or on Google servers. Among the unmentioned […]

Release of SQLite DB version 3.38 and sqlite-utils toolkit version 3.24.

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SQLite 3.38 has been released, a lightweight database management system presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released as public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restrictions for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially established consortium, which includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Major changes: support for operators -> […]

A vulnerability in GitLab allows access to Runner tokens.

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Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-0735) have been fixed in corrective updates for GitLab collaborative development platform versions 14.8.2, 14.7.4, and 14.6.5. These vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized users to extract registration tokens in GitLab Runner, used for triggering handlers during project code compilation in continuous integration systems. Details are not provided yet, only that the issue is caused by information leakage when using Quick command […]

The release of the P2P platform GNUnet 0.16.0.

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The GNUnet 0.16 framework has been released, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks. The networks created with GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the privacy of user information, including excluding potential abuses by security services and administrators who have access to the network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, […]

Bubblewrap 0.6 has been released, a layer for creating isolated environments.

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The toolkit for organizing work in isolated environments, Bubblewrap 0.6, is now available. It is commonly used to limit individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is employed by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. Isolation employs traditional Linux container virtualization technologies based on […]

Wine 7.3 has been released.

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.3 has occurred. Since the release of version 7.2, 15 bug reports have been closed and 650 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Continued support for the 'long' type in the code (over 230 changes). Proper support for Windows API sets has been implemented. Ongoing translation of USER32 and WineALSA libraries to use the PE executable file format […]

The Neptune OS project is developing a compatibility layer for Windows based on the seL4 microkernel.

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The first experimental release of the Neptune OS project has been published, which develops a layer over the seL4 microkernel with the implementation of Windows NT kernel components, aimed at providing support for running Windows applications. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project implements 'NT Executive', one of the levels of the Windows NT kernel (NTOSKRNL.EXE), responsible for providing NT Native system call APIs and an interface for driver operation. In Neptune […]

In the Linux 5.18 kernel, the use of the C11 standard is planned to be permitted.

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During the discussion of a set of patches fixing issues related to Spectre-class vulnerabilities in the code for linked list processing, it became clear that the problem could be solved more elegantly if the kernel allowed C code corresponding to a newer version of the standard. Currently, the code added to the kernel must comply with the ANSI C (C89) specification, […]

The dahliaOS 220222 operating system is available, combining Linux and Fuchsia technologies

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After more than a year of development, a new release of the dahliaOS 220222 operating system has been published, combining technologies from GNU/Linux and the Fuchsia OS. The project's developments are written in Dart and are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. dahliaOS builds are available in two variants — for UEFI systems (675 MB) and older systems/virtual machines (437 MB). The base distribution of dahliaOS is built on […]

Release of Display Server Mir 2.7

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The Mir 2.7 display server release has been presented, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and Ubuntu editions for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in 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 compositing server for Wayland, allowing applications to run in environments […]

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