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Release of FreeDOS 1.3 Operating System

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After five years of development, the stable version of the FreeDOS operating system 1.3 has been released, which develops a free alternative to DOS with an environment of GNU utilities. At the same time, a new release of the FDTUI 0.8 (FreeDOS Text User Interface) shell is available, providing a user interface implementation for FreeDOS. FreeDOS is distributed under the GPLv2 license, and the size of the bootable ISO image is 375 MB. The FreeDOS project was […]

labwc 0.5 is now available, a composite server for Wayland.

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The release of the labwc 0.5 project has been announced, which develops a compositing server for Wayland with capabilities reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Features of labwc include minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options, and high performance. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. It is based on the […]

Release of Solaris Operating System 11.4 SRU42

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Oracle has released an update for Solaris 11.4 SRU 42 (Support Repository Update), which offers a series of further fixes and enhancements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply execute the ‘pkg update’ command. In this new release: Packages with a new branch of the OpenSSL 3.0 library have been added. In one of the following releases, OpenSSL 3.0 will […]

Vulnerabilities in the Expat library that lead to code execution while processing XML data.

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In the Expat 2.4.5 library, used for parsing the XML format in many projects including Apache httpd, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Firefox, Chromium, Python, and Wayland, five critical vulnerabilities have been fixed, four of which potentially allow remote code execution when processing specially crafted XML data in applications using libexpat. Two of the vulnerabilities have reported working exploits. Keep track of the publications […]

Release of OpenBot 0.5, a platform for creating robots based on smartphones

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The release of OpenBot 0.5 has been published, which is developing a platform for creating mobile wheeled robots based on ordinary Android smartphones. The platform was created in the research division of Intel and advances the idea of utilizing the computational capabilities of smartphones along with the GPS, gyroscopes, compasses, and cameras built into them. The software for controlling the robot, analyzing the surrounding space, and […]

Database leak in the WordPress plugin UpdraftPlus, which has 3 million installations.

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-0633) has been identified in the WordPress plugin UpdraftPlus, which has over 3 million active installations, allowing unauthorized users to download a copy of the site's database, which contains not only content but also user parameters and password hashes. The issue has been fixed in versions 1.22.3 and 2.22.3, which are recommended for all UpdraftPlus users to install as soon as possible. UpdraftPlus is presented as the most popular plugin for […]

Release of Bastille 0.9.20220216, a container management system based on FreeBSD Jail

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The release of Bastille 0.9.20220216 has been published, a system for automating the deployment and management of applications running in containers isolated using the FreeBSD Jail mechanism. The code is written in Shell, requires no external dependencies to operate, and is distributed under the BSD license. A command-line interface, bastille, is provided for managing containers, allowing users to create and update Jail environments based on the selected version of FreeBSD, and perform […]

Release of webOS Open Source Edition 2.15

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The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.15 has been published, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. The reference hardware platform considers Raspberry Pi 4 boards. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and the development is managed by the community following a collaborative model. The webOS platform was originally developed by […]

The twenty-second update of the Ubuntu Touch firmware

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The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical stepped back, has released the OTA-22 firmware update (over-the-air). The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed to Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-22 update is designed for smartphones BQ E4.5/E5/M10/U Plus, Cosmo Communicator, F(x)tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google […]

In Firefox 98, the default search engine will be changed for some users.

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A warning has appeared in the support section of the Mozilla website indicating that some users will experience a change in the default search engine in the upcoming release of Firefox 98, scheduled for March 8. It is stated that the change will affect users from all countries, but the specific search engines that will be removed have not been disclosed (the list is not defined in the code, search engine handlers are loaded […]

GNOME Discontinues Support for the Clutter Graphics Library

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The GNOME project has designated the Clutter graphics library as obsolete, ceasing its development. Starting with GNOME 42, the Clutter library and its related components Cogl, Clutter-GTK, and Clutter-GStreamer will be removed from the GNOME SDK, and the related code will be moved to archived repositories. To ensure compatibility with existing extensions, internal […] will remain in GNOME Shell.

GitHub Implements Machine Learning System to Identify Vulnerabilities in Code

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GitHub has announced the addition of an experimental machine learning system for detecting common types of vulnerabilities in code to its Code scanning service. In the testing phase, this new functionality is currently available only for repositories with code in JavaScript and TypeScript. It is noted that the use of the machine learning system has significantly expanded the range of issues detected, as the system no longer limits itself to […]

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