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The developers of the anonymous Tor network have introduced the Arti project, which aims to create an implementation of the Tor protocol in Rust. Unlike the implementation in C, which was initially designed as a SOCKS proxy and later adapted for other needs, Arti is being developed from the ground up as a modular embedded library that various applications can utilize. Work has been ongoing […]
The release of Linux Mint 20.2 has been announced, continuing the development of the branch based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but significantly differs in its approach to user interface organization and the selection of default applications. The Linux Mint developers provide a desktop environment that adheres to classic desktop organization standards, which is more familiar to users who are resistant to new […]
After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 249 has been announced. This new release provides the ability to define users/groups in JSON format, stabilizes the Journal protocol, simplifies the organization of booting alternating disk partitions, adds the ability to bind BPF programs to services, implements user ID mapping in mounted partitions, and introduces a large number of new network settings and container launching capabilities. Key […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux aimed at deploying and servicing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, capable of serving as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 1 GB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.21.1 has been formed, within which the development of new features continues (only changes related to eliminating serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the parallel stable branch 1.20). Key changes include: Nginx now always returns an error when using the CONNECT method; when both "Content-Length" and "Transfer-Encoding" headers are specified; and in the presence of spaces or control characters in the line […]
Mozilla has decided to discontinue the development of the Firefox Lite web browser, which was positioned as a lightweight version of Firefox Focus, designed to work on systems with limited resources and on low-speed connections. The project was developed by Mozilla's team in Taiwan and primarily aimed at markets in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and other developing countries. Updates were planned to be rolled out […]
Ubuntu developers have begun migrating deb packages to use the zstd algorithm, which will nearly double the speed of package installation at the cost of a slight increase in size (~6%). Notably, support for zstd was added to apt and dpkg back in 2018 with the release of Ubuntu 18.04, but it was not used for package compression. In Debian, zstd support is already […]
After ten months of development, a significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 10.5 has been unveiled, continuing the functionality development based on the ESR branch of Firefox 78. The browser focuses on anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic routed exclusively through the Tor network. Direct access through the operating system’s regular network connection is not possible, making it impossible to track the user's real IP (in case […]
The founder of the 'temporary-audacity' fork (now tenacity) announced his resignation as maintainer due to harassment during the voting process for the project's name. Users in the /g/ section of the 4chan forum pushed for the name Sneedacity, where 'sneed' is a reference to the meme 'Sneed’s Feed & Seed'. The fork's author rejected this name, held a new vote, and approved the name 'tenacity'. […]
The release of the Nextcloud Hub 22 platform has been presented, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration among enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. The underlying cloud platform Nextcloud 22 has also been published, allowing the deployment of a cloud storage solution with support for synchronization and data sharing, enabling data viewing and editing from any device anywhere on the network (with […]
Red Hat developers have started forming builds of CentOS Stream 9, a continuously updated edition of CentOS, which is the basis for the development of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 branch. CentOS Stream allows for earlier access to features of the future RHEL branch, but includes not yet fully stabilized packages. CentOS Stream 9 builds are being developed for x86_64, Aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures, but […]
VMS Software, which acquired the rights to continue developing the OpenVMS (Virtual Memory System) operating system from Hewlett-Packard five years ago, has released OpenVMS 9.1, notable for implementing support for the x86-64 architecture. The OpenVMS operating system has been in development since 1977, used in fault-tolerant systems requiring high reliability, and was previously available only for VAX, Alpha, and Intel Itanium architectures. Notably, […]