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On April 5, quietly and unnoticed, the release of version 26.1 of the popular free cross-platform planetarium Stellarium took place – the first this year. The project is written in C++ using the Qt framework (versions 5 and 6 are supported) and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. The main changes in this version include the addition of two new Chinese sky cultures: the Manchus and the Xianglin Star Chart; […]
Notepad++ is now available as a native application for macOS. It is a free text editor that supports multiple programming languages and is suitable for processing textual data in general. No additional tools such as Wine, Porting Kit, or emulation software are required to use it. This is a fully native application developed in compliance with the GNU license. Thanks to its powerful text editing tool […]
Researchers from Xint have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel that allows an unprivileged user to gain root access to the system. The issue has been assigned the code name Copy Fail. A prototype exploit is available. The exploitation of this vulnerability has been demonstrated in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Amazon Linux 2023, RHEL 10.1, and SUSE 16, though it is noted that kernel packages from other distributions, including Debian, Arch, Fedora, […]
On April 29, after more than a month of development, 521 commits, and the correction of 282 bugs, the release of version 8.20.0 (the 274th) of the cross-platform console utility and library curl, written in C and distributed under the curl license, took place. Key Changes Security As mentioned earlier ('High quality chaos'), there has been a significant increase in reports of security issues lately. This time […]
Details have been published regarding the vulnerability 'Copy Fail' CVE-2026-31431 (Base Score: 7.8 HIGH), which allows any local user to gain root privileges locally without special tools or conditions. Most systems released since 2017 are affected. The vulnerability is linked to an error in authencesn—a cryptographic template in the Linux kernel—and it is exploited through the AF_ALG interface. An exploit with code is available on […]
The Linux Containers community has released the toolkit for managing isolated containers LXC 7.0, providing a runtime suitable for running containers with complete system environments, akin to virtual machines, as well as executing unprivileged containers for individual applications (OCI). LXC belongs to low-level tools that operate at the level of individual containers. For centralized management of containers deployed in a cluster of […]
One of the developers of the Devuan distribution has presented the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow the continued provision of applications tied to GTK2 in Devuan, after the end of GTK2 support in the Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The developers of the GTK project have ceased […]
One of the developers of the Devuan distribution has presented the GTK2-NG project, which will develop a fork of the GTK2 library aimed at continuing its maintenance and ensuring quality operation in modern distributions. Maintaining the fork will allow the continued provision of applications tied to GTK2 in Devuan, after the end of GTK2 support in the Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The developers of the GTK project have ceased […]
After four years of development, Valve has released the GameNetworkingSockets library 1.5.0, featuring a message transmission system over UDP that can be used to facilitate high-speed and reliable data exchange in games. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. GameNetworkingSockets implements a TCP-like protocol over UDP that ensures connection establishment, but is focused on […]
On April 28, yet another version of the Fedora Linux distribution family was quietly released – 44. The Fedora team prefers to test the distribution before the release, which is why the launch was delayed twice as part of the standard protocol (the initial date was April 14). Key innovations in Gnome 50 include: removal of X11-related code; the Anaconda installer has had its logic for creating network profiles changed; Wine NTSYNC is enabled by default […]
The release of 26.01 of the library and console utility 7-Zip has occurred, which is designed to work with archives in the formats of 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, and many others. The project is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL license. Changes: The Linux version of 7-Zip can use large (2 MB) memory pages, which allows for increased compression speeds for 7z/xz/LZMA/LZMA2 […]
The Netherlands government has launched its own source code hosting platform, code.overheid.nl, where they plan to publish and collaboratively develop open source software for government institutions. The hosting service is positioned as a European alternative to GitHub and GitLab and aims to ensure digital sovereignty. The open collaborative development platform Forgejo has been used as the basis. The project was initiated by the Open Source Program Office, established under the Ministry of Internal […]