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The release of the web browser Firefox 77 has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.9 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.9.0 has been formed. Soon, the Firefox 78 branch will enter beta testing, with a release scheduled for June 30. Key new features: A new service page "about:certificate" has been added for accessing the built-in certificate viewer interface. In […]
Good day. The team translating the GitLab product on a voluntary basis would like to reach out to the community of developers, testers, managers, and other professionals working with this product, as well as to all those who care. It should be noted that this is not a new initiative; the Russian language has existed in GitLab for quite some time. However, recently the percentage of translations has been increasing, and we would like to make […]
In mid-May, version 5.0 of Zabbix was released, and we organized a series of online meetups in various languages to clearly demonstrate all the changes and innovations to the community. We invite you to take a look at the presentation by Zabbix's CEO and creator, Alexey Vladychev, where he explained step by step what’s new in Zabbix 5.0, Zabbix 4.2, and Zabbix 4.4. Let's start with the changes, […]
The story began long ago, back when CentOS 7 (RHEL 7) was released. If you used disk encryption on CentOS 6, there were no problems with automatic disk unlocking upon connecting a USB flash drive with the necessary keys. However, with the release of version 7, everything suddenly stopped working as you were used to. At that time, a solution could be found by reverting dracut to […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.27.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, offering flexible nonlinear development based on branching and merging. Implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used to ensure the integrity of the history and resist "backdating" changes, and digital certification is also possible […]
The release of the lightweight MX Linux 19.2 distribution has taken place, created through the collaborative efforts of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. This release is based on a Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and numerous proprietary applications that simplify software setup and installation. By default, the Xfce desktop is offered. 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available for download, with a size of 1.5 GB […]
SQL, what could be simpler? Each of us can write a simple query — we type select, list the necessary columns, then from, the table name, a few conditions in where, and voila — we have useful data in our pocket, almost regardless of which DBMS is running under the hood (or maybe it's not even a DBMS at all). In […]
The release of the web browser qutebrowser 1.12.0 has been published, providing a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from viewing content, along with navigation styled like the Vim text editor, built entirely on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The use of Python does not affect performance, as rendering and parsing content […]
The Latin American Free Software Foundation has released a fully free version of the 5.7 kernel — Linux-libre 5.7-gnu, cleaned of firmware elements and drivers containing proprietary components or sections of code with restricted usage by the manufacturer. Additionally, Linux-libre disables kernel features for loading proprietary components not included with the kernel and removes mentions of using proprietary components from the documentation. For […]
The developers of the OpenBSD project have released a portable edition of the LibreSSL 3.2.0 package, which is a fork of OpenSSL aimed at achieving a higher level of security. The LibreSSL project focuses on providing quality support for SSL/TLS protocols by removing unnecessary functionality, adding additional security measures, and conducting significant cleanup and restructuring of the codebase. The release of LibreSSL 3.2.0 is considered experimental, in which […]
On Saturday, May 30, 2020, an initially unclear problem arose with popular SSL/TLS certificates from the vendor Sectigo (formerly Comodo). The certificates themselves continued to function normally; however, one of the intermediate CA certificates in the chains provided with these certificates had 'expired.' The situation was not fatal, but it was unpleasant: current versions of browsers detected nothing wrong, but a large […]
This spring, we already discussed some introductory topics, such as how to check the speed of your disks and what RAID is. In the latter, we even promised to continue exploring the performance of various multi-disk topologies in ZFS. This is a next-generation file system that is now being implemented everywhere: from Apple to Ubuntu. So, today is the perfect day to get acquainted […]