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The release of UDisks 2.9.0 package has occurred, which includes a system background process, libraries, and tools for organizing access to and management of disks, storage devices, and associated technologies. UDisks provides a D-Bus API for working with disk partitions, configuring MD RAID, handling block devices in a file (loop mounting), manipulating file systems, etc. Additionally, modules for monitoring […]
A new major version of the popular free audio editor has been released, along with a hurried fix. A number of changes have been made to the interface and bugs have been corrected. New from versions 2.3.*: The current time has been moved to a separate panel. It can be placed anywhere and resized (by default — double). The time format is independent of the format in the selection panel. Audio tracks can display […]
On May 22, 2020, the release of the popular cross-platform free BitTorrent client Transmission took place, which supports not only a standard graphical interface but also management via CLI and web, and is characterized by its speed and low resource consumption. The new version includes the following changes: General changes across all platforms: RPC servers have been enabled to accept connections via IPv6 By default, SSL certificate verification is turned on for […]
A new version of Ardour has been released — a free digital audio workstation. The main changes compared to version 5.12 are mostly architectural and may not always be noticeable to the end user. Overall, the application has become more user-friendly and stable than ever before. Key innovations include: Transparent latency compensation. A new high-quality resampling engine for variable playback speed (varispeed). The ability to monitor input and playback simultaneously (cue […
Hello, recently I encountered an interesting challenge of configuring storage for backing up a large number of block devices. Every week, we perform backups of all virtual machines in our cloud, so we need to manage thousands of backups and do it as quickly and efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, standard RAID5 and RAID6 configurations won’t work in this case due to […]
Introduction "You have to run as fast as you can just to stay in place, and if you want to get somewhere, you have to run at least twice as fast!" (c) Alice in Wonderland Some time ago, I was asked to give a lecture to our company's analysts on the topic of data model design. After sitting on projects for long periods (sometimes for several years), we often lose sight of […]
Samyang, which also sells its products under the Rokinon brand, has released updated versions of its two best-selling lenses: the MF 14mm f/2.8 MK2 and the MF 85mm f/1.4 MK2. The updated manual focus lenses have the same optical elements and specifications as their predecessors (14 elements in 10 groups for the 14mm model and 9 elements […]
The minimalist multi-platform web browser NetSurf 3.10 has been released, capable of running on systems with just a few dozen megabytes of RAM. The release is prepared for Linux, Windows, Haiku, AmigaOS, RISC OS, and various Unix-like systems. The browser's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. It supports tabs, bookmarks, thumbnail page display, URL autocompletion in the address bar, page zooming, HTTPS, […]
After three months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.3 has been announced, an open implementation of a client and server for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new release includes protection against a scp attack, allowing the server to transmit file names different from those requested (unlike the previous vulnerability, this attack does not allow changing the chosen user directory or glob mask). Remember, […]
The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.83 is available, with its components supplied under the GPLv2 license. New features: Internet+ module added the ability to search comments in the GLOBAL search. In internet monitoring, Maps has been replaced with Maps2. Service ID has been added to the search. Expressions have been added to include the "pause" service. A calculation of the subscription fee for active days has been added, even if the session is not yet closed. […]
On May 22, Wine 5.9 was released. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems, translating Windows API calls to POSIX calls on the fly instead of emulating Windows logic like a virtual machine. In addition to over 28 fixes in the bug tracker, the new release features: Significant progress in the WineD3D backend on Vulkan. Initial support for splitting DLL libraries into PE and […]
On May 19, the release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 6.7 was announced. This system emphasizes code quality and security. The project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the developers of NetBSD. The most significant changes in the release are listed below. Up to 15 partitions are now supported on a single physical device. More details on the machine-independent implementation of mploc for […]
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