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The release of Parrot 4.11, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a collection of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering, is now available. Several ISO images are offered for download, featuring the MATE environment (full 4.3 GB and minimal 1.9 GB), KDE desktop (2 GB), and Xfce desktop (1.7 GB). The Parrot distribution […]
After more than a year of development, Red Hat has released the stable version of the Cygwin 3.2.0 package, which includes a DLL library for emulating the basic Linux API on Windows, allowing Linux programs to be compiled with minimal changes. The package also includes standard Unix utilities, server applications, compilers, libraries, and header files compiled to run directly on Windows. Key changes: Overhauled support for the pseudo-console, […]
John Sullivan announced his departure from the position of Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, a role he has held since 2011. He promised to share details of the transition period and the handover to the new director in the coming days. It is noted that the employees of the FSF deserve full trust, and it has been an honor for him to serve the Foundation and work alongside its […]
The PHP project developers warned about the compromise of the Git repository and the discovery of two malicious commits added on March 28 to the php-src repository under the names of Rasmus Lerdorf, the founder of PHP, and Nikita Popov, one of the key PHP developers. Since there is no confidence in the reliability of the server hosting the Git repository, the developers decided that maintaining their own Git infrastructure presents additional risks […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-28918) has been discovered in the NPM package node-netmask, which has around 3 million downloads per week and is used as a dependency in over 270,000 GitHub projects. This vulnerability allows bypassing checks that use a network mask to determine inclusion in address ranges or for filtering. The issue has been resolved in the release of node-netmask 2.0.0. The vulnerability allows processing an external IP address as […]
In accordance with the previously proposed process for changing the governance of the Open Source Foundation, Geoffrey Knauth, the president of the Foundation, announced the inclusion of a new voting member on the board of directors who will represent the staff's opinions and was elected by the regular employees of the Foundation. System administrator Ian Kelling has joined the board. At the same time, there was an announcement of departures from the board […]
The release of 4MLinux 36.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and utilizes a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and addressing user tasks but also as a recovery system and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […]
The release of the new stable branch WebKitGTK 2.32.0 has been announced, a port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform. WebKitGTK allows access to all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented API based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include Midori […]
In light of Twitter's policy regarding the imposition of JavaScript, enthusiasts have developed Nitter—a free frontend for Twitter that operates without the imposition of JavaScript, analytics, trackers, or resources from Google, CloudFlare, and other third-party services. The project's code is written in Nim and is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Project features include: No JavaScript or ads All requests are routed through the backend, […]
The ninth corrective update for the Debian 10 distribution has been released, including accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release includes 45 updates addressing stability issues and 30 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 10.9 include an update to the latest stable version of the postgresql-11 package and the addition of UEFI SBAT (Secure Boot) support in fwupd.
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.5 — has taken place. Since the release of version 6.4, 25 bug reports have been closed and 413 changes made. The most significant changes include support for the OpenCL 1.2 specification, defining the API and C language extensions for organizing cross-platform parallel computing using multi-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, DSPs, and other specialized chips.
From the codebase on which the FreeBSD 13 release was based, the code implementing the WireGuard VPN protocol, developed under contract by Netgate without consultations with the original WireGuard developers, has been controversially removed. This code was already included in stable releases of the pfSense distribution. After code review by Jason Donenfeld, the author of the original WireGuard, it was determined that the proposal for FreeBSD contained significant issues.