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The release of the Ubuntu 21.10 'Impish Indri' distribution is now available, which is classified as an interim release with updates being provided for 9 months (support will continue until July 2022). Installation images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). Key changes include: Transition to using GTK4 […]
The openSUSE project has announced its intention to create additional intermediate respin builds, in addition to the builds published annually during the release cycle. Respin builds will include all package updates accumulated for the current release of openSUSE Leap, which will help reduce the amount of data downloaded from the network needed to bring a freshly installed distribution up to date. ISO images of the intermediate respin builds are planned to be published […]
The release of LanguageTool 5.5 has occurred, a free software for checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style. The program is available as an extension for LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, as well as an independent console and graphical application, and a web server. Additionally, an interactive form for checking grammar and spelling is available on languagetool.org. The program is also available as an extension for […]
The release of the Qbs build tool 1.20 has been announced. This is the seventh release since the Qt Company stepped away from developing the project, prepared by a community committed to continuing the development of Qbs. Qbs requires Qt among its dependencies for building, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the building of any projects. Qbs utilizes a simplified version of QML to define project build scripts, allowing […]
The release of Dear PyGui 1.0.0 (DPG) has been announced, a cross-platform toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces in Python. The most significant feature of the project is the use of multithreading and offloading operations to the GPU for faster rendering. A key goal of the 1.0.0 release is to stabilize the API. Breaking changes will now be proposed in a separate 'experimental' module. To ensure high performance, the core […]
The release of project BK 3.12.2110.8960 is now available, developing an emulator for the 16-bit home computers BK-0010-01, BK-0011, and BK-0011M that were produced in the 1980s, compatible with the instruction set of PDP-11, SM EVM, and DVK computers. The emulator is written in C++ and is distributed as source code. The overall license for the code is not explicitly defined, but LGPL is mentioned in some files, and […]
After nearly a year of development, the gaming platform Lutris 0.5.9 has been released, providing tools to simplify the installation, configuration, and management of games on Linux. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project supports a catalog for quick search and installation of gaming applications, allowing users to launch games on Linux with one click through a unified interface, without worrying about […]
The author of mitmproxy, a tool for analyzing HTTP/HTTPS traffic, has noticed a fork of their project appearing in the Python package catalog PyPI (Python Package Index). The fork was distributed under a similar name mitmproxy2 and a non-existent version 8.0.1 (the current release of mitmproxy is 7.0.4), hoping that unsuspecting users would perceive the package as a new edition of the main project (type-squatting) and would want to try the new version. […]
Microsoft has announced the availability of a version of the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environment for Windows 11, enabling the execution of Linux executable files. Unlike the WSL distributions for previous versions of Windows, the version for Windows 11 is not integrated into the system image, but is presented as an application distributed through the Microsoft Store. From a technological standpoint, […]
GitHub has blocked SSH keys of users from Git clients that used the JavaScript library keypair to generate keys. For example, keys from the Git client GitKraken were affected by the block. The vulnerability leads to the generation of predictable RSA keys due to a flaw that significantly reduces the quality of entropy during the random sequence generation for keys. The issue has been resolved in keypair versions 1.0.4 and GitKraken 8.0.1. The cause of the vulnerability was the use of faulty key formation processes […]
NTC IT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 12 distribution based on the new rosa2021.1 platform. ROSA Fresh 12 is positioned as the first release showcasing the capabilities of the new platform. This release is primarily aimed at Linux enthusiasts and includes fresh versions of software. Currently, only the image with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment has been officially formed. Releases of images […]
Details have been revealed about three vulnerabilities in the LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice office suites, allowing attackers to prepare documents that appear to be signed by a trustworthy source, or alter the date of an already signed document. The issues were fixed in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 and LibreOffice 7.0.6/7.1.2 releases, presented as not security-related bugs (the LibreOffice 7.0.6 and 7.1.2 releases were published in early May, […]
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