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Rust 1.98.0 Release: Compromise of the arrayref package, which has been downloaded 53 million times in 3 months

The Rust programming language, version 1.98, was released. It was founded by the Mozilla project but is now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on memory safety and provides means for achieving high parallelism of task execution, while doing without the use of a garbage collector and runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). The methods of work […]

Release of package manager RPM 6.1

RPM 6.1, the package manager that will be used in the Fedora distribution, has been released. Linux 45. The project is developed by Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, Pink Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS and Tizen. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. In preparation for RPM 6.1, a transition to the new […]

The SoLo project develops a system SO library loader for completely static Linux-programs

The SoLo project has been published, allowing for completely static LinuxPrograms built with musl load glibc libraries installed on the system, primarily GPU drivers, via dlopen() . Static linking is typically incompatible with Vulkan and OpenGL drivers, which distributions ship as shared libraries built with glibc. SoLo overcomes this limitation by using an ELF loader embedded in the executable and a layer that translates […]

X.Org Server Release Candidate 26.1 is now available.

X.Org Server 26.1.0 Release Candidate (xorg-server 26.0.99.901) has been published, marking the start of the testing phase leading up to the final stable release. X.Org Server 26.1.0 will be the first major release of X.Org Server in five years—the previous major branch, 21.1, was released in 2021. Key changes compared to xorg-server 21.1 include: Removal of the autoconf/automake build system in favor of support for […]

KDE Gear 26.08, a suite of applications from the KDE project, has been released.

After four months of development, the August update to KDE Gear 26.08, developed by the KDE project, is now available. The set includes releases of over 250 programs, libraries, and plugins. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be found on this page. New versions of individual applications can be downloaded from Flathub and SnapCraft. The most notable changes include: The file […]

COSMIC Desktop Environment 1.6.0 Release

System76, a company developing LinuxPop!_OS, the distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.6.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.6.0 are available in Pop!_OS 24.04 and are expected to be available in Fedora, NixOS, and Arch soon. Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and licensed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries). COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]

Release of IncidentRelay 2.0, a system for organizing duty and routing alerts

IncidentRelay 2.0, an open-source system for on-call management, alert routing, and incident response, has been released. It can be deployed on a self-hosted server. The project is aimed at SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure teams seeking an on-premises alternative to cloud-based on-call management platforms. The code is written in Python and distributed under the MIT license. IncidentRelay receives events from Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana Alerting, Zabbix, […]

nginx 1.31.4 release

The nginx 1.31.4 mainline has been released, continuing to develop new features. The parallel stable 1.30.x branch only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The 1.31.x mainline branch will later be converted into the stable 1.32 branch. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: In […]

VirtualBox 7.2.16 release

Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 7.2.16 virtualization system, which introduces 9 changes: In additions for guest systems and host environments with Linux Improved work with the shared clipboard on Wayland systems. In additions for host environments with Linux Support for 7.1 kernels with the Intel FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) mechanism enabled has been implemented, ensuring the return […]

Firefox 154 release

Firefox 154 has been released, along with updates to previous long-term support branches—153.1.0, 140.14.0, and 115.39.0. Firefox 155, scheduled for release on September 1st, will soon enter beta testing. Key new features in Firefox 154 (1, 2, 3): The Local Network Access (LNA) specification has been extended to WebSocket connections. LNA limits […]

Development of the MuQSS task scheduler and the "-ck" kernel patch set has been resumed. Linux

Con Kolivas has resumed work on the MuQSS (Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler) task scheduler and the -ck patch set for the kernel. Linux, aimed at improving responsiveness and interactivity in user-facing tasks and games. Development of these projects was discontinued in 2021 due to loss of motivation and lack of time. Now, Kon has returned to his previous work and released […]

Kernel release Linux 7.2

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds released the kernel. Linux 7.2. Among the most notable changes: USB4STREAM data streaming mechanism, btrfs, xfs and ext4 performance optimizations, continued removal of code for i486 CPU support, the ability to create nested SCHED_EXT schedulers, reduced memory consumption in the swap subsystem, accelerated unnamed pipes, support for Intel MBEC and AMD GMET extensions in […]

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