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The release of the Arkime 3.1 system for capturing, storing, and indexing network packets has been prepared, providing tools for visual traffic analysis and information search related to network activity. Initially, the project was developed by AOL with the aim of creating an open and deployable replacement for commercial network packet processing platforms, scalable to handle traffic at speeds of […]
The release of libmdbx 0.10.4 (MDBX) libraries has occurred, featuring a high-performance compact embedded key-value database implementation, along with the related libfpta 0.3.9 (FPTA) library, which provides a tabular data representation with secondary and composite indexes on top of MDBX. Both libraries are distributed under OSI-approved licenses. They support all current operating systems and architectures, including the Russian Elbrus 2000. Historically, libmdbx has been a deep […]
The release of the Live distribution Redo Rescue 4.0.0 has been published, designed for creating backups and restoring systems in case of failure or data corruption. Snapshots created by the distribution can be fully or selectively cloned to a new disk (along with a new partition table) or used to restore system integrity after malware activity, hardware failures, or accidental data deletion. The distribution […]
On the twentieth anniversary of the project, the release of the free cross-platform interpreter for classic quests ScummVM 2.5.0 has been published, which replaces executable files for games and allows many classic games to run on platforms for which they were not originally designed. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. It supports running over 250 quests and more than 1600 interactive text games, including games from LucasArts, […]
In the October ranking of programming languages popularity, published by TIOBE Software, the triumph of the Python programming language (11.27%) is noted, which has moved from third to first place over the year, displacing C (11.16%) and Java (10.46%). The TIOBE popularity index draws its conclusions based on the analysis of search query statistics in systems such as Google, Google Blogs, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, MSN, […]
A new stable branch of the Flatpak toolkit 1.12 has been released, which provides a system for building self-contained packages not tied to specific Linux distributions and executed in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, Alt Linux, and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository […]
The first corrective update for the Debian 11 distribution has been formed, which includes package updates released over the two months since the new branch's release and addresses issues in the installer. The release includes 75 updates addressing stability issues and 35 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.1 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages like clamav, […]
The first stable release of the OpenSilver project has been published, offering an open implementation of the Silverlight platform that allows the creation of interactive web applications using C#, XAML, and .NET technologies. The project code is written in C# and distributed under the MIT license. Compiled Silverlight applications can run in any desktop and mobile browsers that support WebAssembly, but direct compilation is currently only possible on Windows […]
The experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.19 has been released. Since the release of version 6.18, 22 bug reports have been closed and 520 changes have been made. The most significant changes include the conversion of IPHlpApi, NsiProxy, WineDbg, and some other modules to the PE (Portable Executable) format. Development of the backend for joysticks supporting the HID (Human Interface Devices) protocol has continued. Kernel-related […]
The release of the Brython 3.10 project (Browser Python) has been announced. This project implements the Python 3 programming language for execution on the web browser side, allowing developers to use Python instead of JavaScript for scripting on the web. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the BSD license. By including the brython.js and brython_stdlib.js libraries, web developers can use Python to define the logic of the site on […]
Chromium developers have summarized the initial results of the RenderingNG project, launched 8 years ago, aimed at continuously improving the performance, reliability, and scalability of Chrome. For instance, the optimizations added in Chrome 94 compared to Chrome 93 allowed for an 8% reduction in page processing delays and a 0.5% increase in battery life. Considering the size […]
A new attack vector has been discovered for the Apache HTTP server that remains unpatched in version 2.4.50 and allows access to files in areas outside the site's root directory. Additionally, researchers have found a method that, under certain non-standard configurations, not only allows reading system files but also executing arbitrary code remotely on the server. The issue is only present in releases 2.4.49 […]