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Release of Wine 5.4 and Wine Staging 5.4

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An experimental release of the open WinAPI implementation — Wine 5.4 — has occurred. Since the release of version 5.3, 34 bug reports have been closed, and 373 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Built-in programs have been transitioned to use the new C runtime UCRTBase; Improved support for domain names containing characters from national alphabets (IDN, Internationalized Domain Names); Direct2D now includes support for drawing rectangles with […]

Update RouterOS on your MikroTik

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On the evening of March 10, Mail.ru's support service began receiving complaints from users about the inability to connect to Mail.ru's IMAP/SMTP servers through mail clients. Some connections were unsuccessful, while others displayed a certificate error. This error is caused by the 'server' giving a self-signed TLS certificate. Over two days, more than 10 complaints came from users across various networks […]

How we migrated a distributed team of several hundred people to SAAS

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Collaboration is a sore point for traditional office tools. When ten people are working on a file simultaneously, more time and effort are spent on tracking changes and their authors rather than making edits. This is complicated by numerous applications that are not always compatible. One way to address this issue is to switch to cloud-based office suites. There are not many options available, […]

LoadLibrary, a layer for loading Windows DLLs into Linux applications

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Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google, is developing the LoadLibrary project, aimed at porting DLL libraries compiled for Windows for use in applications on Linux. The project provides a wrapper library that allows DLL files in PE/COFF format to be loaded and specific functions within them to be called. The PE/COFF loader is based on ndiswrapper code. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]

Release APT 2.0

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A new release of the APT package manager has been issued, numbered 2.0. Changes include: Commands that accept package names now support patterns. Their syntax is similar to aptitude. Attention! Masks and regular expressions are no longer supported! Instead, patterns are used. New commands "apt satisfy" and "apt-get satisfy" have been added to satisfy specified dependencies. Pins can be specified by source packages by adding src: […]

Tails 4.4

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On March 12, the release of the new Tails distribution version 4.4, based on Debian GNU/Linux, was announced. Tails is distributed as a live image for USB flash drives and DVDs. The distribution aims to maintain privacy and anonymity while browsing the internet by redirecting traffic through Tor, leaves no traces on the computer unless specified otherwise, and allows for the use of the latest cryptographic utilities. […]

Quarterly update of the initial builds of ALT Linux 9

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The developers of ALT Linux have announced the release of quarterly "starter builds" of the distribution. "Starter builds" are small live builds with various desktop environments, plus server, rescue, and cloud versions; they are available for free download and unlimited use under the GPL, convenient for customization, and are generally intended for experienced users; the package is updated quarterly. They do not claim to be finished solutions, […]

What's new in Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 and 4.3?

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The fourth version of OpenShift was released relatively recently. The current version 4.3 has been available since the end of January, and all changes in it are either entirely new features not available in version three or major updates of what was introduced in version 4.1. Everything we will discuss now is essential knowledge for anyone working […]

Release of NGINX Unit application server 1.16.0

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The release of the NGINX Unit application server version 1.16 has taken place, which develops a solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). Multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously under NGINX Unit, with launch parameters that can be dynamically changed without the need to modify configuration files and restart. Code […]

Quarterly update of ALT p9 starterkits

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The fourth release of starter kits on the Ninth Alt platform is available, prepared for i586, x86_64, aarch64, and armh architectures (torrents for i586, x86_64, and aarch64). Additionally, builds for the mipsel architecture are offered for the Tavolga and BFK3 systems based on the Baikal-T1 CPU (20190703). A number of starter kits (20190903) are also available for owners of the Elbrus VK based on 4C and 8C/1C+ processors. […]

The package base of Debian 11 'Bullseye' will be frozen in the spring of next year

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The developers of the distribution have published the planned freeze dates for the 11th version of the Debian 11 'Bullseye' distribution. The stable release date is set for mid-2021. The approximate freeze schedule is as follows: January 12, 2021 — the first phase, during which updates to packages requiring changes in dependencies of other packages will be halted, leading to the temporary removal of packages from the testing branch. Updates to packages will also be paused […]

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