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The Wine development team proudly announces the availability of the new stable release Wine 6.0. This release represents a year of active development and contains over 8300 changes. Significant changes include: PE format kernel modules, a Vulkan backend for WineD3D, support for DirectShow and Media Foundation, and a redesign of the text console. This release is dedicated to the memory of Ken Thomases, who passed away […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.13.0 has taken place — a Linux distribution focused on security, lightweight design, and resource efficiency (also used in many Docker images). The distribution utilizes the musl C library, the BusyBox set of standard UNIX utilities, the OpenRC initialization system, and the apk package manager. Key changes include: the beginning of the formation of official cloud images. Initial support for cloud-init. Replacement of ifupdown from […]
The release of bladeRF-wiphy has occurred — an open implementation of a WiFi modem in VHDL by Nuand. Wiphy operates on bladeRF 2.0 micro xA9 and supports both client and access point modes. It also supports network monitoring mode. The source code is published on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 license. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the cross-platform frameserver for video processing AviSynth+ 3.7.0 has occurred, written in C++ and using its own scripting language. Ready packages, including plugins, are provided in the Arch Linux repository. Instructions for building your own version are available here. Key changes and features include: Added support for ARM, Haiku, and PowerPC. All built-in plugins are compiled under Linux. Built-in audio support. Support for 16-bit […]
xVA-Synth is a language engine that allows text to be voiced by characters from games. Currently, it supports the games Oblivion, Morrowind, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout New Vegas. Voices such as Serana, Geoffrey, Jiub, and others are available. The best results are achieved with voiced text no longer than 5 seconds. It is written in Electron. You can download the Haskill voice and others here […]
JuiceFS is a POSIX-compliant file system with open source code, built on top of Redis and object stores (e.g., Amazon S3), developed and optimized for cloud environments. Key features: JuiceFS is a fully POSIX-compliant file system. Existing applications can work with it without any changes. Outstanding performance. Latencies can be as low as a few milliseconds, and throughput can be […]
The first major update of the Linux Mint 20 distribution (codenamed 'Ulyssa') has been released. Linux Mint is based on the Ubuntu package base, but has a number of differences, including the default distribution policy of certain software. Linux Mint positions itself as a ready-to-use solution for the end user, so many common applications and dependencies are included in the standard distribution. The main […]
Wasmer 1.0 has been released — a WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime, written in Rust. Wasm automatically places applications in a sandbox for safe execution, protecting the host from errors and vulnerabilities in them. Wasm also provides a cost-effective runtime that allows Wasmer containers to run where Docker containers are too bulky. Release features: Parallel compilation has drastically reduced compilation times for programs. […]
As of January 5, 2021, access to the source code of LTS versions of Qt is provided only to holders of a commercial license. This was announced in a mailing list by the development director of the Qt Company, Tuukka Turunen. With the release of Qt 6.0.0, as well as the upcoming release of the first bug fix release (Qt 6.0.1), it has come time to transition to exclusively commercial licensing for Qt 5.15 LTS. All existing branches […]
The 1.49 release of the Rust programming language has been published. The Rust compiler supports a wide range of systems, but the Rust team cannot provide the same level of support for all of them. To clearly indicate how well each system is supported, a level system is used: Level 3. The system is supported by the compiler, but no pre-built compiler binaries are provided and no tests are run. Level 2. Pre-built binaries are provided […]
After 9 years of development, Dmitry Grochev releases a new stable version of the raster graphics editor mtPaint 3.50. The application's interface uses GTK+ and supports running without a graphical shell. Changes include: GTK+3 support, scripting support (automation), the ability to run without a graphical shell (key —cmd), customizable key combinations, performance improvements through multithreading, additional text tool settings […]
On December 31, the latest New Year release 0.5.1 of the real-time OS for embedded systems, Embox, which is freely distributed under the BSD license, was announced: Changes include: added JS support based on the duktape project, improved support for STM32 platforms, added support for the STM32H7 series, added RTC subsystem, improved support for the efm32zg sk3200 platform, added support for the USB host controller UHCI, improved time subsystem, redesigned clock subsystem […]
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