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It was decided to suspend the synchronization of world atomic clocks with astronomical time from 2035

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At the General Conference on Weights and Measures, it was decided, starting at least from 2035, to suspend the periodic synchronization of the world's reference atomic clocks with the Earth's astronomical time. Due to the inhomogeneity of the Earth's rotation, astronomical clocks are slightly behind the reference ones, and in order to synchronize the exact time, starting from 1972, atomic clocks stopped every few years for one second, […]

Release of IWD 2.0, a package for providing Wi-Fi connectivity in Linux

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The release of the Wi-Fi daemon IWD 2.0 (iNet Wireless Daemon), developed by Intel as an alternative to the wpa_supplicant tool for establishing connections, is available. Linux-systems to a wireless network. IWD can be used both standalone and as a backend for network configurators such as Network Manager and ConnMan. The project is suitable for embedded devices and is optimized for minimal memory consumption […]

GIMP 2.99.14 graphics editor release

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The release of the GIMP 2.99.14 graphics editor is available, which continues the development of the functionality of the future stable branch of GIMP 3.0, in which the transition to GTK3 has been made, native support for Wayland and HiDPI has been added, support for the CMYK color model has been implemented, a significant cleaning of the code base has been carried out, and a new API for plug-in development has been proposed , rendering caching has been implemented, support for multi-layer selection has been added, and […]

Issue Linux-wattOS 12 distribution

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6 years after the last release, the release is available Linux- wattOS 12 distribution, built on a package base Debian and comes with the LXDE graphical environment and the PCManFM file manager. The distribution strives to be simple, fast, minimalist, and compatible with legacy hardware. The project was founded in 2008 and initially developed as a minimalist edition. Ubuntu. The size of the installation […]

Stockfish and ChessBase Settle GPL Litigation

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The Stockfish project announced that it had reached an agreement in a lawsuit with ChessBase, which was accused of violating the GPLv3 license by including code from the Stockfish free chess engine in its proprietary products Fat Fritz 2 and Houdini 6 without opening the source code of the derivative work and without informing customers about using GPL code. The agreement provides for the cancellation of the revocation from ChessBase […]

Vulnerability in Bitbucket Server leading to code execution on the server

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-43781) has been identified in Bitbucket Server, a package for deploying a web interface for working with git repositories, which allows a remote attacker to achieve code execution on the server. The vulnerability can be exploited by an unauthenticated user if self-registration is allowed on the server (the "Allow public signup" setting is enabled). Operation is also possible by an authenticated user who has rights to change the username (i.e. has […]

Release of labwc 0.6, a composite server for Wayland

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A release of the labwc 0.6 (Lab Wayland Compositor) project is available, developing a composite server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is touted as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Of the features of labwc, minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options and high performance are called. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the GPLv2 license. As a basis […]

Cinnamon 5.6 userspace release

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After 6 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.6 user environment has been formed, within the framework of which the distribution developer community Linux Mint is a fork of the GNOME Shell, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2-style environment while maintaining the successful GNOME Shell interaction elements. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]

Release of VirtualBox 7.0.4 and VMware Workstation 17.0 Pro

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Oracle has released a hotfix release of the VirtualBox 7.0.4 virtualization system, which includes 22 fixes. Key changes include: Improved startup scripts for hosts and guests based on LinuxIn additions for guest systems with Linux Initial support for kernels from SLES 15.4, RHEL 8.7, and RHEL 9.1 has been implemented. The handling of kernel module rebuilds during […]

The distribution has been published AlmaLinux 9.1

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The distribution release has been released AlmaLinux 9.1, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise distribution Linux 9.1, which contains all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of a bootable (840 MB), minimal (1.6 GB), and full image (8.6 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, and Xfce will be created later, as well as images […]

Release of the Red Hat Enterprise distribution Linux 9.1

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Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise distribution. Linux 9.1. Ready-made installation images are available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (ISO images can also be used to evaluate functionality) CentOS Stream 9). The release is available for the x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. Red Hat Enterprise RPM package sources Linux 9 are placed in […]

MariaDB 10.10 stable release

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The first stable release of the new MariaDB 10.10 (10.10.2) DBMS branch has been published, within which a branch from MySQL is being developed that maintains backward compatibility and is distinguished by the integration of additional storage engines and advanced features. MariaDB development is overseen by the independent MariaDB Foundation, following an open and transparent development process independent of individual vendors. MariaDB is shipped in place of MySQL in many […]

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