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Fedora Linux 39 plan to disable support for SHA-1-based signatures by default

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Fedora Project developers have outlined a plan to disable support for SHA-1-based digital signatures in Fedora. Linux 39. The disabling involves removing trust in signatures that use SHA-1 hashes (SHA-224 will be declared as the minimum supported hash in digital signatures), but retaining support for HMAC with SHA-1 and providing the ability to enable the LEGACY profile with SHA-1. After applying the changes, the library […]

Based on Sway, a port of the LXQt user environment is being developed that supports Wayland

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The developments of the lxqt-sway project, which is engaged in porting the components of the LXQt user shell to work in the Sway environment and the composite manager using the Wayland protocol, have been published. In its current form, the project resembles a hybrid of two environments. LXQt settings are converted into a Sway configuration file. Additional menus have been implemented to perform operations such as changing the virtual desktop, splitting and closing windows, making it easier to […]

Debian will ship Chromium with the DuckDuckGo search engine instead of Google

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In the package with the Chromium browser offered in the distribution Debian, has switched to using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine instead of Google. The proposal to replace the search engine with DuckDuckGo has been under consideration since April 2020. The reason cited for the switch is user privacy concerns—DuckDuckGo does not personalize search results and strips out data that could be used for tracking […]

Release of the MX distribution Linux 21.2

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The lightweight MX distribution has been released. Linux 21.2, created as a result of the collaboration between the communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. The release is based on the package base Debian With improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and its own tools for system configuration and deployment. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for download […]

Programming language rating from IEEE Spectrum

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The IEEE Spectrum magazine, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has published a new edition of the popularity rating of programming languages. Python remains the leader of the ranking, followed by C, C++ and C# with a slight lag. Compared to last year's ranking, Java has moved from 2nd to 5th place. Strengthening position noted for C# languages ​​(up from 6 […]

Wine 7.16 release

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The experimental release of the open source WinAPI implementation, Wine 7.16, has taken place. Since the release of version 7.15, 20 bug reports have been closed and 226 changes have been made. The most important changes: The X11 driver now supports WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs in a 64-bit environment. WindowsThe MSHTML engine implements session storage. MSXML now handles Unicode correctly in regular […]

Release of GIMP 2.99.12 graphics editor with initial CMYK support

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The release of the GIMP 2.99.12 graphics editor is available for testing, 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, a significant cleanup of the codebase has been carried out, a new API for plugin development has been proposed, rendering caching has been implemented , added support for selecting multiple layers (Multi-layer selection) and provided editing in the original color […]

Project Debian started a general vote on the issue of supplying proprietary firmware

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Project Debian announced a general resolution (GR) vote among project developers on the issue of including proprietary firmware in official installation images and live builds. The discussion phase for the items up for vote will last until September 2, after which the vote will begin. Approximately 1,000 developers involved in package maintenance and infrastructure support are eligible to vote. Debian. Lately […]

Release of OneScript 1.8.0, 1C:Enterprise script execution environment

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The release of the OneScript 1.8.0 project has been published, which develops a cross-platform virtual machine independent of the 1C company for executing scripts in the 1C:Enterprise language. The system is self-sufficient and allows you to execute scripts in the 1C language without installing the 1C:Enterprise platform and its specific libraries. The OneScript virtual machine can be used both for direct execution of scripts in the 1C language, and for embedding […]

Vulnerability in Bitbucket Server allowing code to be executed on the server

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-36804) has been identified in Bitbucket Server, a package for deploying a web interface for working with git repositories, which could allow a remote attacker with read access to private or public repositories to execute arbitrary code on the server by sending a specially issued HTTP request. The issue has been present since version 6.10.17 and is fixed in Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center releases 7.6.17, 7.17.10, […]

NetworkManager 1.40.0 release

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A stable release of the interface is available to simplify network settings - NetworkManager 1.40.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are developed within their own development cycles. NetworkManager 1.40 highlights: The nmcli command-line interface implements the "--offline" flag, which allows processing connection profiles in keyfile format without calling the NetworkManager background process. In particular, […]

A bug in Chrome that allows you to change the clipboard without user action

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Recent releases of the Chromium engine have changed behavior related to writing to the clipboard. While in Firefox, Safari, and older releases of Chrome, writing to the clipboard was allowed only after explicit user interaction, in newer releases, writing to the clipboard is as simple as opening the site. The change in behavior in Chrome is due to the need to read data from the clipboard when displaying the splash […]

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