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A new version of the open-source monitoring system Zabbix 5.4 has been released. This release includes support for generating reports in PDF format, a new syntax for aggregating detection of more complex issues, data visualization improvements, support for API access tokens, metric-level tags, performance enhancements, and much more. Zabbix consists of three […]
The first release of the Lima project (Linux-on-Mac, macOS subsystem for Linux), which develops a layer for running Linux applications on macOS, has been announced. It addresses tasks similar to those of the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The project's code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The essence of Lima is to run virtual machines with Linux in a macOS environment with built-in […]
The developers of the fingerprintjs library, which allows for the passive generation of browser identifiers based on indirect features such as screen resolution, WebGL characteristics, and lists of installed plugins and fonts, have introduced a new identification method. This method assesses installed user applications and works through checking browser support for additional protocol handlers. The script code implementing this method has been published under the […]
The release of Zulip 4.0 has been introduced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for organizing communication among employees and developer teams. The project was initially developed by Zulip and opened after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]
Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the eBPF subsystem, allowing handlers to run inside the Linux kernel in a special virtual machine with JIT. Both vulnerabilities enable the execution of custom code with kernel privileges, outside the isolated eBPF virtual machine. Information about the issues was published by the Zero Day Initiative team, which conducts the Pwn2Own competitions, during which three attacks were demonstrated this year […]
Corrective updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22. Updates for the 9.6 branch will be provided until November 2021, for the 10 branch until November 2022, for the 11 branch until November 2023, for the 12 branch until November 2024, and for the 13 branch until November 2025. The new releases fix three vulnerabilities and address […]
A new stable version of the note-taking application OutWiker 3.0 has been released. One feature of the program is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and any number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Additionally, plugins can be used to add the capability of publishing to […]
Pali Rohár has changed the license for the libopenaptx project, which offers an implementation of the aptX codec (Audio Processing Technology) used in the A2DP Bluetooth profile. The package includes the libopenaptx.so library and utilities for encoding and decoding sound. The license has been changed from LGPLv2.1 to GPLv3+, which will prevent the use of the libopenaptx code in projects distributed only under the GPLv2 license without re-licensing linking with […]
The release of the NomadBSD 130R-20210508 live distribution is available, representing a FreeBSD edition adapted for use as a portable desktop bootable from a USB flash drive. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. DSBMD is used for mounting drives (supporting CD9660, FAT, HFS+, NTFS, Ext2/3/4 mounting). The size of the boot image is 2.4 GB (x86_64). In this new release, the base environment has been updated to FreeBSD 13.0. Offered […]
Fedora distribution developers have announced the decision to integrate a component for sending user statistics to the project server into the Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Fedora CoreOS editions, allowing insights into the number of users with the distribution installed. Previously, such statistics were sent in traditional Fedora builds, and now they will also be added to the atomically updated editions based on rpm-ostree. By default […]
The release of Bodhi Linux 6.0 has been introduced, which comes with the Moksha desktop environment. Moksha is developed as a fork of the Enlightenment 17 (E17) codebase, created to continue the development of Enlightenment as a lightweight desktop, due to disagreements with the project's development policy, the growth of the Enlightenment 19 (E19) environment, and the degradation of the codebase's stability. Three installation images are offered for download: standard (872 MB), with […]
The release of SystemRescue 8.03 is now available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 717 MB (amd64, i686). Changes in the new version include an updated Linux kernel 5.10.34, the inclusion of the gsmartcontrol utility for detecting problems with disks and SSDs, and the addition of the utility […]