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The release of the Crystal programming language 1.0 has been announced. This version marks the first significant release, summarizing 8 years of development and signifying the stabilization of the language, making it ready for use in production projects. The 1.x branch will maintain backward compatibility, ensuring no changes to the language and standard library negatively impact the compilation and operation of existing code.
The release of the Porteus Kiosk 5.2.0 distribution has taken place, based on Gentoo and designed for equipping standalone internet kiosks, exhibition stands, and self-service terminals. The bootable image of the distribution occupies 130 MB (x86_64). The basic build includes only the minimal set of components necessary to run a web browser (Firefox and Chrome are supported), which is limited in its capabilities to prevent unwanted activity in the system (for example, […]
Mozilla has changed the method of generating the HTTP Referer header in the upcoming release of Firefox 87, scheduled for tomorrow. To block potential leaks of confidential data, by default, when navigating to other sites, the HTTP Referer header will only include the domain, not the full URL of the source from which the transition was made. The path and query parameters will be trimmed. That is, instead of "Referer: https://www.example.com/path/?arguments" it will be […]
After nearly two years of development, the release of the open parametric 3D modeling system FreeCAD 0.19 is now officially available. The source code for the release was published on February 26, and then updated on March 12, but the official release announcement was delayed due to the unpreparedness of installation packages for all declared platforms. Just a few hours ago, a warning that the FreeCAD 0.19 branch is still not officially ready […]
Nightly builds of Firefox, as well as the beta version, have HTTP/3 support enabled by default. In the stable branch, the inclusion of HTTP/3 is scheduled for the release of Firefox 88, planned for April 20. In Chrome, selective activation of HTTP/3 began in October 2020. HTTP/3 support in Firefox is based on the neqo project developed by Mozilla, which provides a client and server implementation for […]
The developers of the Debian project have announced the transition of the Debian 11 "Bullseye" package base to a full freeze stage, during which the process of transferring key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing will be completely halted and an intensive testing and blocking issues fixing phase will begin. In exceptional cases, packages from unstable may be manually transferred, but for this […]
The release of the OnlyOffice Desktop 6.2 suite is now available, designed for working with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The editors are presented as desktop applications written in JavaScript using web technologies, but they combine both client and server components packaged for standalone use on the user's local system, without relying on an external service. The project code is distributed […]
After two years of development, a new version, RetroShare 0.6.6, has been released. This platform allows for secure file and message sharing through an encrypted Friend-to-Friend network. In this type of peer-to-peer network, users establish direct connections only with peers they trust. Builds are prepared for Windows, FreeBSD, and many GNU/Linux distributions. The source code for RetroShare is written in C++ using the […]
The linux-next branch, on which the Linux kernel version 5.13 will be based, has included an initial set of components for developing device drivers in Rust. Documentation on using Rust in the Linux kernel and an example kernel module with a character device driver in Rust have been separately published. The code was added by Stephen Rothwell, the maintainer of the linux-next branch. Typically, the branch […]
The team responsible for maintaining the infrastructure for Linux kernel development has announced the launch of a new mailing list service at lists.linux.dev. In addition to traditional mailing lists for Linux kernel developers, the server allows for the creation of mailing lists for other projects with domains different from kernel.org. All mailing lists serviced on vger.kernel.org will be migrated to the new server, preserving all […]
The release of the minimalist web browser links 2.22 has occurred, supporting both console and graphical modes. In console mode, color display and mouse control are possible, as long as the terminal being used supports it (for example, xterm). In graphical mode, image output and font smoothing are supported. All modes provide support for table and frame rendering. The browser supports the HTML specification […]
Several vulnerabilities have been identified in the open-source web forum engine MyBB, which in combination allow for the execution of PHP code on the server. The issues are present in versions from 1.8.16 to 1.8.25 and have been fixed in the MyBB 1.8.26 update. The first vulnerability (CVE-2021-27889) allows an unprivileged forum participant to embed JavaScript code in posts, discussions, and private messages. The forum allows the addition of images, lists, and multimedia […]