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Google has released Chrome 98.0.4758.102, which contains fixes for 11 vulnerabilities, including one critical issue already being exploited by attackers (0-day). Details are not yet disclosed, but it is known that the vulnerability (CVE-2022-0609) is caused by accessing memory after it has been freed (use-after-free) in code related to the Web Animations API. Other serious vulnerabilities include buffer overflow […]
AV Linux MX-21 is now available, featuring a collection of applications for creating/processing multimedia content. The distribution is based on the package base of the MX Linux project and additional packages of its own build (Polyphone, Shuriken, Simple Screen Recorder, etc.). The distribution can operate in Live mode and is available for the x86_64 architecture (3.4 GB). The user environment is based on Xfce4 with the OpenBox window manager instead of xfwm. […]
The release of the Firefox add-on libredirect 1.3 is available, which performs automatic redirection to alternative versions of popular websites that ensure privacy, allowing content viewing without registration and functioning without JavaScript. For example, to view Instagram in anonymous mode without registration, it redirects to the front-end Bibliogram, and to view Wikipedia without JavaScript, it uses Wikiless. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Applied replacements: […]
qxkb5 has been released, an interface for switching keyboard layouts, allowing different behaviors for different windows. For instance, for messaging application windows, only the Russian layout can be fixed. The program also allows using both embedded graphical and text language labels. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Supported operating modes: Normal mode — the active window remembers the last […]
Researchers from the Google Project Zero team summarized data on manufacturers' response times to newly discovered vulnerabilities in their products. According to Google's policy, vulnerabilities identified by Google Project Zero researchers are to be fixed within 90 days, and additional public disclosure can be delayed by another 14 days upon separate request. After 104 days, information about […]
Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, proposed for consideration by the Linux kernel developers the fifth variant of components for developing device drivers in the Rust language. Rust support is considered experimental but is already included in the linux-next branch and is sufficiently developed to begin working on creating abstraction layers over kernel subsystems, as well as for writing drivers and modules. Development […]
After more than a year of development, the release of the communication client Dino 0.3 has been published, supporting participation in chats and messaging using the Jabber/XMPP protocol. The program is compatible with various XMPP clients and servers, focused on ensuring the privacy of conversations and supports end-to-end encryption using the OMEMO XMPP extension based on the Signal protocol or encryption using OpenPGP. The project code is written in […]
Google has released the first beta version of the open mobile platform Android 13. The release of Android 13 is expected in the third quarter of 2022. To evaluate the new features of the platform, a pre-testing program has been proposed. Firmware builds have been prepared for the Pixel 6/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a, Pixel 4/4 XL/4a/4a (5G) devices. The key innovations in Android 13 include: Implemented system […]
The uChmViewer 8.2 release is now available, a fork of KchmViewer, a program for viewing files in chm (MS HTML help) and epub formats. The release adds support for KDE Framework 5 instead of KDE4 and initial support for Qt6 instead of Qt4. The fork includes some improvements that did not make it into and likely will not make it into the main KchmViewer project. The code is written in C++ and is provided […]
With the release of version 0.2, the toolkit for creating graphical interfaces SixtyFPS has been renamed to Slint. The renaming was motivated by user criticism of the name SixtyFPS, which led to confusion and ambiguity when sending requests to search engines, and did not reflect the project's purpose. The new name was chosen during discussions with the community on GitHub, where users suggested new names. […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.2 has been made. Since the release of version 7.1, 23 bug reports have been closed and 643 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: A major cleanup of the MSVCRT library code and support for the 'long' type has been ensured (over 200 changes from 643). The Wine Mono engine with the .NET platform implementation has been updated to release 7.1.1. Improvements include […]
The release of the free graphical client Nicotine+ 3.2.1 for the P2P file-sharing network Soulseek has taken place. Nicotine+ aims to be a convenient, free, open-source alternative to the official Soulseek client, providing additional functionality while maintaining compatibility with the Soulseek protocol. The client code is written in Python using the GTK graphical library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for GNU/Linux, […]