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The Apache Foundation has presented its report for the 2021 fiscal year (from May 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021). The total assets during the reporting period amounted to $4 million, which is $500,000 more than in the 2020 fiscal year. The annual income was $3 million, which is about $800,000 more than last year. Expenses at the same time […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Xiaomi, one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones, smart devices, and IoT platforms, has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), which protects the Linux ecosystem from patent claims. By joining OIN, the company has demonstrated its commitment to the ideas of collaborative innovation development and non-aggressive patent management. It is noted that Linux and open technologies are a key part of Xiaomi's products and […]
A new implementation of a file server using the SMB3 protocol has been proposed for inclusion in the next Linux kernel release. The server is designed as a kernel module ksmbd and complements the previously available SMB client code. It is noted that unlike a user-space SMB server, the kernel-level implementation is more efficient in terms of performance, memory consumption, and integration with […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.14. Among the most noticeable changes are the new system calls quotactl_fd() and memfd_secret(), the removal of ide and raw drivers, a new input/output priority controller for cgroups, the SCHED_CORE task scheduling mode, and infrastructure for creating verified BPF program loaders. The new version incorporates 15883 fixes from 2002 developers, with the patch size being 69 […]
All users of the stable version of the Chrome browser have been informed about a change that activates new code by default for output organization on systems with an X server, based on the use of the Ozone layer, which abstracts interaction with the graphics subsystem. The use of Ozone allows for support of both X11 and Wayland in a single Chrome build, without being tied to any specific graphics subsystem. The old backend, which only supports operation through […]