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The release of Samba 4.12.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a fully implemented domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of serving all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server, printing service, and identity server (winbind) capabilities. Key changes […]
Alongside email encryption and the use of digital signatures, one of the most effective and low-cost ways to protect email from hacking is a proper password security policy. Passwords written on paper, stored in shared files, or simply not complex enough always represent a significant vulnerability in an organization's information security and can lead to serious incidents with tangible consequences for […]
After I finished the New Year's Olivier salad, I found myself with nothing to do, so I decided to download all the articles from Habr (and related platforms) to explore. There ended up being several interesting storylines. The first of these is the evolution of the format and themes of articles over the 12 years of the website's existence. For example, the dynamics of certain topics are quite indicative. Continuation — below the cut. The process […]
The release of the main branch of nginx 1.17.9 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (the parallel stable branch 1.16 only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes: Specifying multiple 'Host' header lines in a request is prohibited; Fixed a bug where nginx ignored additional 'Transfer-Encoding' header lines in a request; Fixes to prevent leaks […]
The release of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 is available, an operating system with a hybrid kernel created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Notable features of DragonFly BSD include the distributed versioned file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernels as user processes, the ability to cache data and metadata of the FS on SSD drives, taking into account context-sensitive symbolic links, the ability to freeze processes […]
The release of nEMU version 2.3.0 has occurred. nEMU is an ncurses interface to QEMU that simplifies the creation, configuration, and management of virtual machines. The code is written in C and released under the BSD-2 license. What's new: A monitoring daemon for virtual machines has been added: it sends notifications to D-Bus through the org.freedesktop.Notifications interface when the state changes. New command line keys for managing virtual machines: —powerdown, —force-stop, —reset, […]
nginx 1.17.9 has been released, a new version in the current mainline branch of the nginx web server. The mainline branch is actively developed, while only bug fixes are made to the current stable branch (1.16). Change: nginx now does not allow multiple 'Host' header lines in a request. Fix: nginx ignored additional 'Transfer-Encoding' header lines in a request. Fix: socket leaks when using […]
How to Write and Publish a Smart Contract in TON What is this article about? In this article, I will share my experience of participating in the first (of two) Telegram blockchain competition, where I did not win a prize but decided to document the experience so it wouldn’t be lost and might help someone. Since I did not want to write […]
Mikhail Salosin (hereinafter – MS): – Hello everyone! My name is Mikhail. I work as a back-end developer at MC2 Software, and I will talk about using Go in the back end of the mobile app "Smotri+". Does anyone here love hockey? If so, this app is for you. It is for Android and iOS, designed for streaming various sports events online and […]
Google continues to develop its Chrome OS operating system, which recently received a major update with version 80. The stable version of Chrome OS 80 was supposed to be released a few weeks ago, but the developers apparently miscalculated the timelines and the update arrived late. One of the significant innovations in version 80 is the revamped tablet interface, which can […]
The non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, managed by the community and providing certificates for free to anyone who wants them, has warned of the upcoming revocation of many previously issued TLS/SSL certificates. Out of 116 million currently active Let’s Encrypt certificates, just over 3 million (2.6%) will be revoked, of which about 1 million are duplicates tied to a single domain (the error primarily affected certificates that were updated very frequently […]
In accordance with the previously planned schedule, the GCC compiler set has been removed from the FreeBSD source tree. The build of GCC along with the base system for all architectures was disabled by default at the end of December, and now the GCC code has been removed from the SVN repository. It is noted that at the time of removing GCC, all platforms not supporting Clang have transitioned to using external build tools, […]
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