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The release of the main branch nginx 1.31.5 has been published, continuing the development of new features. Only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities are being made in the parallel stable branch 1.30.x. Subsequently, a stable branch 1.32 will be formed based on the main branch 1.31.x. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. In this new release: Added […]
Attackers were able to substitute elements of the Softaculous company's infrastructure by injecting a fake route through the BGP protocol, which allowed them to redirect traffic from the subnet with Softaculous servers to a server controlled by the attackers. As a result of the attack, among other things, they were able to redirect requests to the company's customer website, billing, and update distribution servers for Virtualizor software, after which they used them to distribute malware […]
After more than two years of development, the release of the WinBtrfs project 1.10 has been published, which develops a driver for using the Btrfs file system on the Windows platform. WinBtrfs is not based on the Btrfs code from the Linux kernel, but is a ground-up alternative implementation. It supports operation with Windows XP and later releases. The driver is included in the ReactOS operating system and can be used […]
The Linux From Scratch 13.1 (LFS) guide is now available, starting with the 13.x branch, which is only created as an edition with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using the source codes of the required software. Additionally, the Beyond Linux From Scratch edition expands on the LFS instructions with information about building and configuring around […]
The release of the Firefox 155 web browser has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches have been formed — 153.2.0, 140.15.0, and 115.40.0. Firefox 155 is the first release to be formed under the new two-week release cycle, which will allow new features to reach users more frequently, ensure a more predictable release process, and reduce the workload on developers before releases. At this stage […]
Amazon has announced the acquisition of DuckLabs, a company developing the open-source DBMS DuckDB. The acquisition process was completed on August 31, and the deal amount is not disclosed. The DuckDB development team will join AWS and continue working on DuckDB technologies under the guidance of the co-founders of DuckLabs. DuckDB's advancements are planned to be used to modernize, simplify, and enhance the analytics stack offered on the AWS platform. The Amazon service […]
The release of the uutils coreutils project 0.11.0 (Rust Coreutils), which develops an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been published. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The aim of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among other things capable of working on Windows, Redox […]
The support period for the LTS branch of the Debian 11 "Bullseye" distribution, formed in 2021, has been announced as completed. Updates for the LTS branch were released by a separate group of developers, the LTS Team, formed from enthusiasts and representatives of companies interested in the long-term provision of updates for Debian. After the end of LTS support, Freexian will provide support until June 30, 2031, as part of the extended "Extended LTS" program […]
The founders of the Packman package repository have announced their decision to wind down the project on December 31, 2026, unless someone volunteers to continue working on it. The Packman project (not to be confused with the pacman package manager) was created 25 years ago and develops an independent repository of RPM packages for openSUSE and SUSE Linux distributions, aimed at supplying fresher versions of packages or components […]
The first release of the FreeCORE project has been published, which develops a distribution for rapid deployment of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) based on FreeBSD and OpenZFS technologies. FreeCORE was created as a fork of the TrueNAS CORE distribution codebase (descendant of FreeNAS), which in 2024 was moved to maintenance mode, limited to fixing bugs and security issues. The development of TrueNAS CORE was halted by iXsystems in favor of the […] edition.
The release of the pfSense CE 2.9.0 (Community Edition) distribution for creating firewalls and network gateways has been published. This distribution is based on the FreeBSD codebase, utilizing the developments from the m0n0wall project and pf packet filter. To download the new version, please use the installer. Management of the distribution is performed through a web interface. Captive […] can be used to provide wired and wireless network access for users.
After a year and a half of development, the release of the ReactOS 0.4.16 operating system has been presented, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers, as well as offering a Windows-style interface. The operating system is in alpha development stage. A bootable ISO image (198 MB) has been prepared for download. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Since the last release, 2808 changes have been made and […].