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Chrome Release 107

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Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 107 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, always turning on Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and passing […]

Documentation for PostgreSQL 15.0 is available in Russian

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Postgres Pro has published (PDF, Epub) a complete translation into Russian of the documentation for the PostgreSQL 15.0 DBMS. In addition to the translation of official documentation, several public Russian-language books on PostgreSQL have been released - “Postgres: first acquaintance” (PDF), “PostgreSQL from the inside” (PDF), “PostgreSQL. Fundamentals of the SQL Language (PDF) and Fundamentals of Database Technology (PDF). Source: opennet.ru

Lennart Poettering proposed a new architecture for verified boot Linux

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Lennart Poettering has published a proposal to modernize the boot process. Linux-distributions, aimed at addressing existing issues and simplifying the organization of a fully verified boot process that confirms the validity of the kernel and the underlying system environment. The changes required to implement the new architecture have already been incorporated into the systemd codebase and affect components such as systemd-stub, systemd-measure, systemd-cryptenroll, systemd-cryptsetup, systemd-pcrphase, and systemd-creds. The proposed changes […]

Desktop Wallpaper Contest for Xfce 4.18

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The developers of the Xfce user environment have announced a competition to create new wallpapers for the desktop, which will be part of the release of Xfce 4.18, scheduled for December 15, 2022. Works should be submitted in vector graphics formats and distributed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. A prerequisite is the presence of an unmodified image of the Xfce mouse in the work. Entries are accepted until November 20, […]

Sigstore cryptographic verification system announced

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Google announced the first stable releases of components that make up the Sigstore project, which has been declared ready for production deployments. Sigstore develops tools and services for software verification using digital signatures and maintaining a public log confirming the authenticity of changes (transparency log). The project is being developed under the auspices of a non-profit organization. Linux Foundation by Google, Red Hat, Cisco, vmWare, […]

Vulnerabilities in Samba leading to buffer overflows and base directory out-of-bounds

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Samba 4.17.2, 4.16.6, and 4.15.11 patches have been released, addressing two vulnerabilities. You can track the release of package updates in these distributions on the following pages: Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, RHEL, SUSE, Arch, FreeBSD. CVE-2022-3437 — A buffer overflow in the unwrap_des() and unwrap_des3() functions provided in the GSSAPI library from the Heimdal package (included with Samba since version 4.0). Exploitation of the vulnerability […]

Draft of the third edition of PNG format published

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The W3C has published a draft version of the third edition of a specification that standardizes the packaging format for PNG images. The new version is fully backward compatible with the second edition of the PNG specification, released in 2003, and is distinguished by the inclusion of additional features such as support for animated images, the ability to integrate EXIF ​​metadata, and the supply of CICP (Coding-Independent Code Points) properties for defining color spaces (including number […]

Release of Brython 3.11, implementations of the Python language for web browsers

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The Brython 3.11 (Browser Python) project release is presented with an implementation of the Python 3 programming language for execution on the side of a web browser, allowing you to use Python instead of JavaScript to develop scripts for the Web. The project code is written in Python and distributed under the BSD license. By including the brython.js and brython_stdlib.js libraries, a web developer can use the Python language to define the […]

Bumble opened a machine learning system to detect obscene images

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The company Bumble, which develops one of the largest online dating services, has opened the source code for the Private Detector machine learning system used to detect obscene images in photos uploaded to the service. The system is written in Python, uses the Tensorflow framework and is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. For classification, the convolutional neural network EfficientNet v2 is used. A ready-made model for image detection is available for download […]

To the code base Android Initial support for the RISC-V architecture has been added.

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To the AOSP repository (Android Open Source Project), which develops the platform's source code Android, the patch rollout for devices with RISC-V processors has begun. The RISC-V patch set was prepared by Alibaba Cloud and includes 76 patches covering various subsystems, including the graphics stack, sound system, video playback components, the bionic library, the dalvik virtual machine, […]

Release of the Python 3.11 programming language

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After a year of development, a significant release of the Python 3.11 programming language has been published. The new branch will be supported for a year and a half, after which patches with vulnerabilities will be formed for it for another three and a half years. At the same time, alpha testing of the Python 3.12 branch began (according to the new development schedule, work on the new branch begins five months before […]

Release of the IceWM 3.1.0 window manager, which continues the development of the concept of tabs

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The lightweight window manager IceWM 3.1.0 is now available. IceWM provides full control through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, the taskbar and application menus. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, it is possible to use themes. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, traffic. Separately, several third-party GUIs are being developed for customization, desktop implementations, and editors […]

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