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The release of the Devuan 3.1 distribution, a fork of Debian without systemd.

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The release of the Devuan 3.1 'Beowulf' distribution has been announced, a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, delivered without the system manager systemd. Devuan 3.1 is an intermediate release, continuing the development of the Devuan 3.x branch, based on the Debian 10 'Buster' package base. Live builds and installation iso images for AMD64 and i386 architectures are prepared for download. Builds for ARM (armel, armhf, and arm64) and images for virtual machines […]

Release of SANE 1.0.32 with support for new scanner models.

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The release of the sane-backends package 1.0.32 has been prepared, which includes a set of drivers, the command-line utility scanimage, a daemon for organizing network scanning saned, and libraries implementing the SANE-API. The package supports 1652 scanner models, of which 737 have full support for all functions, for 766 the level of support is rated as good, for 126 as acceptable, and for 23 as […]

Linux kernel version 5.11

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.11. Among the most notable changes: support for Intel SGX enclaves, a new system call interception mechanism, an auxiliary bus, prohibiting module builds without MODULE_LICENSE(), a fast filtering mode for system calls in seccomp, ceasing support for the ia64 architecture, moving the WiMAX technology to the 'staging' branch, and the ability to encapsulate SCTP in UDP. In […]

Port scanning led to a subnet block by the provider due to being listed on UCEPROTECT.

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Vincent Canfield, administrator of the email service and hosting reseller cock.li, discovered that his entire IP network was automatically added to the DNSBL UCEPROTECT for port scanning from neighboring virtual machines. Vincent's subnet was listed at Level 3, where blocking is done by autonomous system numbers and covers entire subnets that have repeatedly triggered incidents for different addresses […]

Release of Wine 6.2, Wine Staging 6.2, and Proton 5.13-6

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.2 has been announced. Since the release of version 6.1, 51 bug reports have been closed and 329 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.0 with DirectX support. Support for the NTDLL debugger API has been added. The WIDL (Wine Interface Definition Language) compiler has expanded support for WinRT IDL (Interface Definition Language). […]

Release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 distribution.

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After a year of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 distribution has been made. The project is being developed by the community after the company Mandriva S.A. transferred project management to the nonprofit organization 'OpenMandriva Association'. A Live image of size 2.4 GB (x86_64), a 'znver1' build optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors, as well as images for use on ARM devices Pinebook Pro, are available for download […]

A new version of the Vivaldi 3.6 browser for Android has been released.

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Today, the new version of the Vivaldi browser 3.6 for Android was released. This browser is developed by former Opera Presto developers and uses the open-source Chromium engine. Among the new features of the browser, we can highlight: Page Effects — a set of JavaScript tools that allow you to modify the display of the web pages you visit. The effects are activated through the browser's main menu and can be used either individually or in combination.

JFrog has announced the imminent shutdown of Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter services.

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The shutdown of these services will be gradual: Right now — no changes. On February 28 — the acceptance of new data will cease, the GoCenter and ChartCenter websites will stop functioning, but their services will still be available from April 12 to April 26 — preparing for shutdown. On May 1 — Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter will be completely inaccessible. Alternatives offered: Bintray.

The possibility of executing user code in kernel context has been identified and fixed in the futex system call.

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In the implementation of the system call futex (fast userspace mutex), the use of stack memory after release was discovered and eliminated. This, in turn, allowed an attacker to execute their code in the context of the kernel, with all the resulting security implications. The vulnerability was found in the error handler code. A fix for this vulnerability was released in the Linux mainline on January 28 and […]

The first public release of JingOS

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The first public release of the mobile-oriented operating system JingOS has been made, specifically for the JingPad C1, with mass production scheduled to begin in July 2021. The system is a fork of Ubuntu, coming with many qualities borrowed from Apple's iPad OS forked from KDE. A set of stock applications is also being developed, including a calendar, app store, PIM, voice memos, and […]

Critical vulnerability in libgcrypt 1.9.0

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On January 28, a 0-day vulnerability was discovered in the cryptographic library libgcrypt by Tavis Ormandy from Project Zero (a team of security specialists at Google looking for 0-day vulnerabilities). The vulnerability affects only version 1.9.0 (now renamed on the upstream FTP server to avoid accidental downloads). Due to incorrect assumptions in the code, a buffer overflow is possible, potentially leading to remote code execution. The overflow can […]

Release of EiskaltDC++ 2.4.1

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The stable release of EiskaltDC++ v2.4.1 has been published — a cross-platform client for Direct Connect and Advanced Direct Connect networks. Builds have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Haiku, macOS, and Windows. Maintainers of many distributions have already updated packages in the official repositories. Key changes since version 2.2.9, released 7.5 years ago: General Changes OpenSSL support >= 1.1.x has been added (support […]

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