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Red Hat has established a team for the development of the EPEL repository

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Red Hat has announced the creation of a separate team to oversee activities related to maintaining the EPEL repository. The team's goal is not to replace the community but to organize its ongoing support and ensure EPEL is ready for the next significant RHEL release. The team is formed as part of the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) group, which maintains the infrastructure for developing and publishing Fedora releases […]

Results of the Mozilla VPN client audit have been published

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Mozilla has announced the completion of an independent audit of the client software for connecting to the Mozilla VPN service. The audit analyzed a standalone client application developed using the Qt library and available for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS. Mozilla VPN operates over 400 servers from the Swedish VPN provider Mullvad, located in more than 30 countries. Connection […]

The Pale Moon project has ceased development of the Mypal browser.

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The author of the Mypal web browser, which develops a fork of Pale Moon for the Windows XP platform, created after support for this OS was discontinued with the release of Pale Moon 27.0, has announced the cessation of further development of the project at the request of the Pale Moon developers. The main complaint from the Pale Moon developers was that Feodor2, the developer of Mypal, did not provide the source code with the specific release, published in the form of […]

Vulnerability in NPM package pac-resolver, which has 3 million downloads per week

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A vulnerability (CVE-2021-23406) has been discovered in the NPM package pac-resolver, which has over 3 million downloads per week. This vulnerability allows the execution of custom JavaScript code within the context of an application when sending HTTP requests from Node.js projects that support automatic proxy configuration. The pac-resolver package parses PAC files that include an automatic proxy configuration script. A PAC file contains regular JavaScript code with a FindProxyForURL function that defines the proxy selection logic based on […]

Linux From Scratch 11 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11 have been released

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New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11 (BLFS) guides have been presented, as well as editions of LFS and BLFS with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch, using only the source code of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building […]

GitHub introduces new requirements for remote connections to Git

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GitHub has announced changes to the service aimed at enhancing the security of the Git protocol used during git push and git pull operations over SSH or the 'git://' scheme (access via https:// will not be affected). Following the implementation of these changes, at least OpenSSH version 7.2 (released in 2016) or PuTTY will be required to connect to GitHub via SSH […]

Release of Armbian 21.08

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The release of the Armbian 21.08 Linux distribution has been announced, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including models such as Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard using Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are based on Debian 11 and Ubuntu package repositories […]

Release of Chrome 93

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Google has released version 93 of the Chrome web browser. A stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is also available. Chrome features Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the transfer of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release of Chrome 94 is scheduled for September 21 (development has been transferred […]

Release of nginx 1.21.2 and njs 0.6.2

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The release of the main branch of nginx 1.21.2 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (the parallel stable branch 1.20 only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes include: Blocking HTTP/1.0 requests that include the HTTP header "Transfer-Encoding" (which appeared in HTTP/1.1). Support for the export cipher suite has been discontinued. Compatibility with OpenSSL 3.0 has been ensured. Implemented […]

A fully free version of the Linux-libre kernel 5.14 is now available

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The Latin American Free Software Foundation has published a fully free version of the Linux kernel 5.14 — Linux-libre 5.14-gnu1, cleansed of firmware and driver elements that contain non-free components or code segments limited by the manufacturer. Additionally, Linux-libre disables kernel functions for loading non-free components not included with the kernel and removes mentions of non-free use […]

Release of NTFS-3G 2021.8.22 with vulnerability fixes

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After more than four years since the last release, the NTFS-3G 2021.8.22 package has been published, which includes a free driver that operates in user space using the FUSE mechanism, and a set of utilities called ntfsprogs for managing NTFS partitions. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The driver supports reading and writing data on NTFS partitions and can operate across a wide range of operating systems, […]

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