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The release of BusyBox 1.34 has been announced, featuring a set of standard UNIX utilities packaged as a single executable file and optimized for minimal system resource consumption, with a total size of under 1 MB. The first release of the new 1.34 branch is labeled as unstable, with full stabilization expected in version 1.34.1, which is anticipated to arrive in about a month. The project's code is distributed under the […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 21.1.0 has occurred, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro is available in live builds with graphical environments KDE (3 GB), GNOME (2.9 GB), and Xfce (2.7 GB). When […]
The release of the spam filtering system Rspamd 3.0 has been presented, providing tools to evaluate messages based on various criteria, including rules, statistical methods, and blacklists, which together determine the final weight of the message used to decide on blocking. Rspamd supports virtually all features implemented in SpamAssassin and includes several enhancements that enable filtering emails approximately 10 […]
The Document Foundation has released the office suite LibreOffice 7.2. Ready installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. For this release, 70% of the changes were made by employees of partner companies like Collabora, Red Hat, and Allotropia, while 30% were contributed by independent enthusiasts. The LibreOffice 7.2 release is designated as 'Community' and will be supported by enthusiasts and not […]
After a year and a half of development, the MATE 1.26 desktop environment has been released, continuing the development of the GNOME 2.32 codebase while preserving the classic desktop paradigm. Installation packages for MATE 1.26 will soon be prepared for Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, ALT, and other distributions. In this new release: Continued porting of MATE applications for Wayland. […]
A new significant release of the free content management system Joomla 4.0 is now available. Notable features of Joomla include: flexible user management tools, an interface for managing media files, support for creating multilingual page versions, an advertising campaign management system, a user address book, voting, built-in search, link categorization and click tracking functions, a WYSIWYG editor, template system, menu support, news feed management, XML-RPC API […]
The release of the Pale Moon 29.4 web browser is now available, which branched from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher performance, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without […]
Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the Realtek SDK components, which are used by various wireless device manufacturers in their firmware. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code on devices with elevated privileges. Preliminary estimates indicate that the issues affect at least 200 device models from 65 different vendors, including various models of wireless routers from Asus, A-Link, Beeline, Belkin, Buffalo, D-Link, Edison, Huawei, LG, […]
After two months of development, the release of the distributed source control system Git 2.33 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible means of nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, […]
A patch release of Firefox 91.0.1 is now available, which includes several fixes: A vulnerability (CVE-2021-29991) has been corrected, allowing for an HTTP header split attack. This issue was caused by incorrect acceptance of newline characters in HTTP/3 headers, enabling the specification of a header that would be interpreted as two different headers. A problem with button size changes in the tab bar, occurring when loading certain websites, has been fixed, […]
A vulnerability has been identified in Glibc (CVE-2021-38604) that allows for the crashing of system processes through the sending of specially formatted messages via the POSIX message queues API. This issue has not yet manifested in distributions, as it only appears in the release 2.34, published two weeks ago. The problem is caused by incorrect handling of NOTIFY_REMOVED data in the mq_notify.c code, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and crash […]
Patrick Volkerding has announced the start of testing for the release candidate of Slackware 15.0, marking the freeze of most packages prior to release and focusing developers' attention on fixing bugs that block the release. An installation image has been prepared for download, sized at 3.1 GB (x86_64), as well as a slimmed-down build for running in Live mode. Slackware has been evolving since 1993 and is the oldest […]