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The SATA 3.5 specification has been released: bandwidth hasn't increased, but there is potential for performance growth.

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Eleven years ago, the SATA Revision 3.0 specifications were released, allowing for a twofold increase in peak speed for one of the most widely used interfaces for connecting hard drives. Today, the SATA specification has reached version 3.5. The maximum transfer speed remains unchanged at 6 Gbps. However, the standard's developers promise to enhance overall performance and improve integration with […]

Release of the Midnight Commander 4.8.25 file manager

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After six months of development, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.25 has been published, distributed in source form under the GPLv3+ license. Major changes include: A graphical dialog has been added for modifying file attributes supported by the chattr utility, similar to how access permissions are managed. Attribute modification is available only for Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4 file systems. The ability to override […]

Final update of Debian 9.13

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A corrective update has been released for the previous stable branch of Debian 9, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes issues in the installer. The release includes 75 updates addressing stability issues and 73 updates fixing vulnerabilities. This is the final release of the Debian 9 branch, and further preparation of package updates will be handed over to the LTS Team. Standard support for Debian 9 ended on the 18th […]

Release of CMake build system 3.18

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The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 3.18 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. CMake is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, functionality extension through modules, and minimal dependencies (no binding to […]

A new version of the Dr.Web antivirus for macOS has been released.

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The company 'Doctor Web' announced the release of the updated antivirus solution D.Web 12.0.0 to protect computers running macOS version 10.7 and above from common types of threats. Dr.Web for macOS detects and automatically blocks suspicious web pages and files, thus preventing the download of malware onto the computer, while also warning the user about potentially dangerous sites. In addition to […]

A BGP configuration error led to a 27-minute outage at Cloudflare.

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The company Cloudflare, which provides a content delivery network for 27 million internet resources and handles traffic for 13% of the top 1000 sites, has revealed details of an incident that disrupted the operation of many segments of the Cloudflare network for 27 minutes, including those responsible for delivering traffic to London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Amsterdam, Paris, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. The problem was caused by […]

Release of Wine 5.13

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An experimental release of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.13 has occurred. Since the release of version 5.12, 22 bug reports have been closed and 407 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The implementation of the IniFileMapping call to map ini format configuration files (win9x) to the corresponding registry parameters (NT). Support for mapping has been added to the functions GetPrivateProfileStringW(), WritePrivateProfileStringW(), GetPrivateProfileSectionNames(), and WritePrivateProfileSection(). […]

Size Isn't Everything: What the NVMe Protocol Brings Us

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A familiar story. As more powerful computers emerge, as processor performance and data storage capacity increase, and users breathe a sigh of relief—"now I have enough for everything, no need to cut back or save"—new needs arise almost immediately, demanding more resources, new software that also "doesn't hold back on anything." […]

Auto-generating secrets in Helm

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The Mail.ru Kubernetes aaS team translated a short note on how to automatically generate Helm secrets during updates. Below is the text from the article's author—the technical director of Intoware, a SaaS solutions development company. Containers are great. Initially, I was an opponent of containers (shame to admit), but now I fully support using this technology. If you’re reading this, I hope you’ve been successfully swimming […]

A Brief Note on the LSI RAID Controller Overheating Incident in a Cold Data Center

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TL;DR; configuring the cooling system mode for the Supermicro server Optimal does not ensure the stability of the LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i controller in a cold data center. We try not to use hardware RAID controllers, but we have one client who specifically prefers configurations with LSI MegaRAID. Today, we faced overheating of the MegaRAID 9361-8i card because the platform did not sense […]

The single-board computer ODROID-N2 Plus measures 90 × 90 mm

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The Hardkernel team has released the ODROID-N2 Plus development board, which can be used for various projects in the Internet of Things, robotics, and more. At the core of the solution is the Amlogic S922X Rev.C processor. Its six computing cores feature a big.LITTLE configuration: four Cortex-A73 cores operate at a clock speed of up to 2.4 GHz, while two Cortex-A53 cores run at a frequency of up to […]

Update of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102.4

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The release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102.4 has been announced, which addresses three vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-3350 — allows an unprivileged local attacker to delete or move arbitrary files in the system, for instance, they can delete /etc/passwd without having the necessary permissions. The vulnerability is caused by a race condition that occurs during the scanning of malicious files, enabling a user with shell access in the system to change the target directory […]

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