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After two and a half years since the formation of branch 12.x, FreeBSD 13.0 has been released, which is prepared for architectures amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64. Additionally, images have been created for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. Key innovations include the transition to a unified c […]
Research groups Forescout Research Labs and JSOF Research have published the results of a joint security study on various implementations of the compression scheme used to pack repeated names in DNS messages, mDNS, DHCP, and IPv6 RA (packing duplicate parts of domains in messages containing multiple names). The work identified 9 vulnerabilities collectively named NAME:WRECK. The issues were identified […]
Google has introduced a new declarative logic programming language called Logica, designed for data manipulation and translating programs into SQL. The new language is aimed at those looking to use logic programming syntax when writing database queries. Currently, the resulting SQL code can be executed in Google BigQuery storage or in the PostgreSQL and SQLite databases, which are still […]
Amazon has announced the creation of the OpenSearch project, which is a fork of the search, analysis, and data storage platform Elasticsearch, along with the associated web interface platform Kibana. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. In the future, it is planned to rename the Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch is forked from the Elasticsearch 7.10.2 codebase. Official work on the fork […]
The development of the Slackware 15.0 distribution has transitioned to the beta testing stage. Slackware has been evolving since 1993 and is the oldest of the currently existing distributions. Its features include a lack of complications and a simple initialization system in the style of classic BSD systems, making Slackware an interesting solution for learning about Unix-like systems, conducting experiments, and getting acquainted with Linux. An installation image has been prepared for download, […]
Sawyer X has announced his departure from the leadership council of the Perl project and from the Core Team. He has also stepped down from his role in release management for Perl, ceased participation in the grants committee, withdrawn from speaking at the Perl conference, and deleted his Twitter account. Nevertheless, Sawyer X expressed his willingness to complete the ongoing release […]
The formation of a new nonprofit organization, the Open-Source FPGA Foundation (OSFPGA), has been announced. This foundation aims to develop, promote, and create an environment for collaborative development of open hardware and software solutions related to the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), which allow for reprogramming of logic after the chip has been manufactured. Key binary operations (AND, NAND, OR, NOR, and XOR) in such […]
After eight months of development, the release of the free hypervisor Xen 4.15 has been published. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, and EPAM Systems participated in the development of this new release. Updates for the Xen 4.15 branch will continue until October 8, 2022, with security vulnerability fixes available until April 8, 2024. Key changes in Xen 4.15 include: In the processes of Xenstored […]
The release of the Sway 1.6 compositor, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 tiling window manager and the i3bar panel, is now available. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use in Linux and FreeBSD. Compatibility with i3 is ensured at the level of commands, configuration files, and IPC, allowing for […]
Hector Martin has proposed to include the first set of patches prepared by the Asahi Linux project in the Linux kernel. This project is working to adapt Linux for Mac computers equipped with Apple M1 ARM chips. The mentioned patches have already been approved by the maintainer of the Linux SoC branch and accepted into the Linux-next codebase, which forms the basis for the functionality of kernel 5.13. Technically, Linus Torvalds can block the delivery […]
The developers of FreeBSD have decided in the new branch of FreeBSD 13, which is expected to be released on April 13, to assign Tier 1 status to the ARM64 (AArch64) architecture port as the primary platform. Previously, this level of support was provided for 64-bit x86 systems (up until recently, i386 architecture was also primary, but it was downgraded to tier two support in January). The first level of support […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.6 has been announced. Since the release of version 6.5, 56 bug reports have been closed and 320 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.1.1 with some updates moved from the main project. The DWrite and DnsApi libraries have been transformed into PE executable file format. Driver support for devices has been improved […]