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The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 1.0 has been introduced, implemented as a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing rules to be changed dynamically through D-Bus, without the need to restart the packet filter rules and without breaking established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
A corrective release for Firefox 90.0.2 is available, which includes several fixes: The menu display style has been corrected for certain GTK themes (for example, when using the GTK theme Yaru Colors in Firefox's Light theme, the text in the menu appeared white on a white background, and in the Minwaita theme, context menus became transparent). An issue with truncated output when printing has been fixed. Changes have been made to include DNS-over-HTTPS […]
A new release of the cross-platform library for creating graphical interfaces SixtyFPS 0.1.0 has been published, aimed at use on embedded devices and in desktop applications on Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms, as well as for use in web browsers (WebAssembly). The library's code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 license or a commercial license allowing use in proprietary products without disclosing […]
Google has released version 92 of its web browser Chrome. Simultaneously, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. Chrome features Google's branding, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 93, is scheduled for August 31. Key changes […]
Security researchers from Qualys have revealed details of two vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel and the system manager systemd. The kernel vulnerability (CVE-2021-33909) allows a local user to execute code with root privileges through manipulations with deeply nested directories. The risk is exacerbated by the fact that researchers have prepared working exploits that function in Ubuntu 20.04/20.10/21.04, Debian 11, and Fedora 34 […]
The experimental branch of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.13 has been released. Since the release of version 6.12, 31 bug reports have been closed and 284 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Correct theme support for scroll bars has been implemented. Work on converting WinSock and IPHLPAPI into libraries based on the PE (Portable Executable) format has continued. Preparations have been made for the implementation […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.24 virtualization system, which includes 18 fixes. Key changes: Support for kernel 5.13 has been added for guest systems and hosts running Linux, as well as kernels from the SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 distribution. Additional support for Linux kernels provided in Ubuntu has been added to the guest system extensions. The component installer for host systems has been updated to include […]
The Stockfish project, distributed under the GPLv3 license, has sued ChessBase, revoking the GPL license for the use of its code. Stockfish is known as the strongest chess engine used on chess services lichess.org and chess.com. The lawsuit was filed regarding the inclusion of Stockfish code in a proprietary product without releasing the source code of the derivative work. ChessBase is known […]
In response to Linus Torvalds’ remark that the example driver provided with the patchset implementing Rust support for the Linux kernel is useless and does not address real tasks, a version of the PL061 GPIO driver rewritten in Rust has been proposed. The feature of this driver is that its implementation closely follows the existing GPIO driver written in C. For developers, […]
Muse Group, founded by the Ultimate Guitar project and owning open projects MusesCore and Audacity, has resumed attempts to close the musescore-downloader repository, which develops an application for free downloading of musical scores from musescore.com without the need to log in to the site and without connecting to the paid Musescore Pro subscription. Claims also concern the musescore-dataset repository with a collection of scores copied from musescore.com. […]
Enthusiasts have managed to boot a Linux 5.0-based environment on the ESP32 board with a dual-core Tensilica Xtensa processor (ESP32 devkit v1, without a full MMU), equipped with 2 MB of Flash and 8 MB of PSRAM, connected via SPI interface. A ready-made Linux firmware image for the ESP32 has been prepared for loading. The loading process takes about 6 minutes. The firmware is based on the image […]
Raymond Hill, the author of the ad-blocking system uBlock Origin, has published a new version of the browser extension uMatrix 1.4.2, which offers blocking capabilities for external resources similar to a firewall. The update was released as an exception, even though development of the extension was halted last year. The release of the new version does not indicate a resumption of development — following publication […]