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Release of Nebula 1.5, a system for creating overlay P2P networks

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The Nebula 1.5 project release is available, offering tools for building secure overlay networks. The network can connect from a few to tens of thousands of geographically dispersed hosts hosted by different providers, creating a separate isolated network over the global network. The project is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. It is developed by Slack, the company behind the eponymous corporate messenger. Support for work in […]

Web framework Pusa, shifting JavaScript frontend logic to the server side

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The web framework Pusa has been released, implementing a concept that shifts browser-executed frontend logic using JavaScript to the backend — managing the browser and DOM elements, as well as business logic executed on the backend. The JavaScript code executed in the browser is replaced with a universal layer, calling handlers located on the backend. The need to develop with JavaScript for the frontend is eliminated. The reference […]

Release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 distribution

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Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 distribution. Installation builds are prepared for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 architectures, but are available for download only to registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal. The source code for the rpm packages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is distributed through the CentOS Git repository. The 8.x branch will be supported at least until 2029 […]

The CentOS project transitions to development using GitLab.

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The CentOS project has announced the launch of a collaborative development service based on the GitLab platform. The decision to use GitLab as the primary platform for hosting CentOS and Fedora projects was made last year. Notably, the infrastructure is not hosted on their own servers, but on the service gitlab.com, where a section for CentOS-related projects is provided at gitlab.com/CentOS. […]

Release of an alternative build of KchmViewer, a program for viewing chm and epub files.

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An alternative release of KchmViewer 8.1, a program for viewing files in chm and epub formats, is now available. This alternative branch includes some enhancements that have not made it to and are unlikely to make it to upstream. The KchmViewer program is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. This release focuses on improving the translation of the user interface (initially, the translation was working […]

Eight Critical Vulnerabilities Fixed in Samba

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Correction releases of the Samba package versions 4.15.2, 4.14.10, and 4.13.14 have been published, addressing 8 vulnerabilities, most of which could lead to complete compromise of the Active Directory domain. Notably, one of the issues had been fixed since 2016, and five since 2020; however, one fix resulted in an inability to start winbindd when the "allow trusted domains" setting was enabled […]

The Use of Invisible Unicode Characters to Conceal Actions in JavaScript Code

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Following the Trojan Source attack method, which utilizes Unicode characters to alter the display order of bidirectional text, another technique for injecting hidden actions applicable to JavaScript code has been published. This new method is based on the use of the unicode character "ㅤ" (code 0x3164, "HANGUL FILLER"), which is categorized as a letter but has no visible content. The Unicode category that includes this character, […]

Release of the Deno 1.16 JavaScript Platform

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The release of the JavaScript platform Deno 1.16 has taken place, designed for the isolated execution (without using a browser) of applications written in JavaScript and TypeScript. The project is being developed by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. The platform's code is written in the Rust programming language and is distributed under the MIT license. Pre-built binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The project is similar to the Node.js platform and, like it, […]

Chromium has added the ability to locally disable viewing of web page code.

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Functionality has been added to the Chromium codebase to block the opening of the built-in browser interface for viewing the source code of the current page. Blocking occurs at the level of local policies set by the administrator, by adding a mask "view-source:*" to the list of prohibited URLs, configured using the URLBlocklist parameter. This change complements the existing DeveloperToolsDisabled option, which allows closing access to web developer tools. The need to disable the interface […]

The security analysis of the BusyBox package identified 14 insignificant vulnerabilities.

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Researchers from Claroty and JFrog have published the results of a security audit of the BusyBox package, widely used in embedded devices and offering a set of standard UNIX utilities packaged as a single executable file. During the review, 14 vulnerabilities were identified, which have already been fixed in the August release of BusyBox 1.34. Almost all issues are non-critical and questionable in terms of their real-world application […]

Release of the ncurses console library 6.3

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After a year and a half of development, the release of the ncurses 6.3 library has been announced, designed for creating cross-platform interactive console user interfaces and supporting the emulation of the curses API from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). The ncurses 6.3 release is source-level compatible with the ncurses 5.x and 6.0 branches but expands the ABI. Among the popular applications built using ncurses are […]

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