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Release of the Deepin 20.2 distribution, developing its own graphical environment.

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The release of the Deepin 20.2 distribution has taken place, based on the Debian package base but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, installer, and software center Deepin Software Center. The project is based by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. The distribution […]

Google is developing a new Bluetooth stack for Android, written in Rust.

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A variant of the Gabeldorsh (GD) Bluetooth stack, rewritten in Rust, has been placed in the repository with the source code of the Android platform. Details about the project are currently unavailable, with only the build instructions provided. The Android-based inter-process communication mechanism Binder has also been rewritten in Rust. Notably, another Bluetooth stack is being developed for the Fuchsia OS, also using Rust for development. More […]

Release of system manager systemd 248

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After four months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 248 has been presented. The new release provides support for images to expand system directories, the configuration file /etc/veritytab, the systemd-cryptenroll utility, LUKS2 unlocking using TPM2 chips and FIDO2 tokens, running units in an isolated IPC namespace, the B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol for mesh networks, and the nftables backend for systemd-nspawn. systemd-oomd has been stabilized. Key changes: The concept of […]

The author of Libreboot defended Richard Stallman

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Leah Rowe, the founder of the Libreboot distribution and a well-known advocate for minority rights, despite past conflicts with the FSF and Stallman, has publicly defended Richard Stallman against recent attacks. Leah Rowe believes the witch hunt is orchestrated by those ideologically opposed to free software and is aimed not only at Stallman but also at […]

Release of the GTK 4.2 graphical toolkit

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After three months of development, the release of the multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces — GTK 4.2.0 — has been announced. GTK 4 is developed within a new development process that aims to provide application developers with a stable API that can be supported for several years, so they do not have to worry about rewriting their applications due to API changes every six months in another GTK branch. […]

The first stable release of AlmaLinux, a fork of CentOS 8

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The first stable release of the AlmaLinux distribution has been made, created in response to the premature discontinuation of support for CentOS 8 by Red Hat (the release of updates for CentOS 8 is set to be stopped at the end of 2021, not in 2029 as users had expected). The project is based on CloudLinux, which provided resources and developers, and has been transferred to a separate non-profit organization AlmaLinux OS […]

Release of the integrated suite of internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53.7

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The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.7 internet application suite has occurred, integrating a web browser, email client, news feed aggregation system (RSS/Atom), and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer into one product. Pre-installed extensions include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of web developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar/planner Lightning. This new release includes fixes and updates from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

Release of Parrot 4.11 distribution featuring a collection of security testing software

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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 […]

New version of Cygwin 3.2.0, a GNU environment for Windows.

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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, […]

The Free Software Foundation has lost its executive director

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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 […]

Malicious changes have been identified in the Git repository of the PHP project

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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 […]

Vulnerability in the NPM package node-netmask, used in 270,000 projects

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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 […]

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