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Enthusiasts have created a prototype open server for the MAX messenger

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The enthusiast community has developed its own implementation of a server for proprietary messengers MAX and TamTam. The protocol for interacting with the server has been recreated through reverse engineering. The project is presented as a server emulator that can be used to replace the official server after modifications to the client software. Any clients compatible with the official server api.oneme.ru or api.tamtam.chat are supported. The code is written in Python and is open under […]

Genode OS v26.02

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Last month, the free (AGPLv3) microkernel OS (or rather a generalized framework for building such) Genode delighted us with the release on 26.02: completion of the transition from XML to a custom HID (genode.org); migration of the repository from Github to Codeberg; updating the Linux DDE (Device Driver Environment) to 6.18 LTS; support for SDL3; support for GSS Spec in Goa; a number of minor changes and improvements. With […]

Release of the March 2026 version of CachyOS

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The installer now features animated previews of the desktop, integration with Winboat, an updated website, and significant changes to the portable version. The installer now shows animated previews in GIF/WebP format in the 'Desktop Selection' section to showcase all available options. This feature is currently available for Plasma, GNOME, Niri, and COSMIC, allowing users to better understand what […]

Dynamics of the codebase changes in the Python project

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The developers of the Python programming language visualized the changes in the codebase of the CPython interpreter in relation to key events over the 36 years of the project's existence. Over the past 10 years, the volume of code in Python and C languages within CPython has almost doubled. The cloc utility was used to count the lines of code. Source: opennet.ru

Release of uutils 0.7, a variant of GNU Coreutils in Rust

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The release of the uutils coreutils 0.7.0 project (Rust Coreutils) has been published, which is developing an analogue of the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils collection includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on Windows platforms, Redox […]

PPSSPP 1.20.0

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PPSSPP is an open-source emulator for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). It runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and mobile devices powered by Android and iOS. PPSSPP belongs to HLE (High Level Emulation) emulators and does not require the BIOS of the original console, as it uses HLE BIOS. Key improvements: enhanced UI; improved multiplayer support; fixed graphical issues […]

Wine 11.4

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Wine 11.4 has been released today — a software with open source code, an alternative and free implementation of the Windows API that allows running Windows games and applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems such as Linux, BSD, and macOS. Wine also forms the basis of Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Key changes: Reworked SAX reader in MSXML. Resampling optimizations in DirectSound. […]

Up to 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by hardware memory issues.

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Gabriele Svelto, an engineer at Mozilla, has published results from an analysis of Firefox crashes linked to memory bit distortions caused by hardware issues. Of the 470,000 crash reports from the last week, 25,000 identified potential bit distortion due to unstable memory chip operation as the cause. It was indicated that this […]

GTK 4.22

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Ahead of the GNOME 50 release, expected in less than two weeks, a new stable version of the GTK user interface library has been released. Key fixes in GTK 4.22: Drag-and-Drop (DnD) fixes: A regression where the ::leave signal for DropTarget widgets was no longer sent upon completion of the drop operation has been addressed (#8037, Matthias Clasen). Adjustments in demo applications: the demo programs now […]

Layouts of the updated Firefox interface, developed under the codename Nova.

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Mozilla is working on modernizing the Firefox interface as part of the Nova project. Several layouts of the new design are available to assess the key trends. The most noticeable change is the increased rounding of tab buttons and the address bar, as well as the grouping into distinct rounded blocks in the top area with the tab bar, navigation bar, sidebar, and content area of web pages […]

Release Wine 11.4

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.4 has been published. Since the release of 11.3, 17 bug reports have been closed and 211 changes made. The most important changes include the continued development of the msxml3 library (Microsoft® XML Core Services), required for the Adobe Cloud product installer to work, including Adobe Photoshop. Support for the SAX Reader API, implementing event-driven […]

Code rewriting using AI for relicensing open projects.

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Dan Blanchard, the developer of the chardet library for character encoding detection in Python, has released a new version of the library under a new license. Version 7.0 uses the MIT license instead of LGPL. The developer claims that the AI assistant Anthropic Claude, now listed among contributors, rewrote the library without using the original code, allowing him to replace the copyleft license with a permissive one. [ ... ]

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