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System76, a company developing LinuxPop!_OS, the distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.2.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.2.0 are available in Pop!_OS 24.04 and are expected to be available in Fedora, NixOS, and Arch soon. Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and licensed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries). COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]
The second alpha release of the Pidgin 3.0 instant messaging client (2.96) has been released. This release is marked as not yet ready for everyday use. Builds have been prepared in Flatpak format and hosted in the beta repository on Flathub. The Pidgin 3 branch has been in development since 2011, and prior to that, it was discussed at the concept and idea level for three years. Pidgin 3 marks the transition […]
Oracle has released a hotfix release of the VirtualBox 7.2.12 virtualization system, which introduces three changes. The additions to host environments with Linux Fixed an issue that caused a kernel crash Linux with the kernel entering a panic state or the system freezing when starting the virtual machine. The freezing occurs when users are using VirtualBox 7.2.10. Debian 13, Arch Linux, Linux [...]
The Git 2.55 release of the distributed source control system has been announced. Key changes include: the inclusion of Rust builds by default, implementation for Linux fsmonitor process, a new strategy for repackaging the incremental MIDX index, the git history fixup command for fixing a commit, optimizations for generating object availability bitmaps, support for parallel hook execution, and the git format-rev command. Git is licensed under the GPLv2+ license. By […]
Heather VanCura, Oracle's vice president of community engagement, presented the second phase of the initiative to engage with the community and accelerate MySQL development. While the first phase focused on increasing transparency and involving the community in determining MySQL's development path, the second phase will focus on engaging community representatives in development. Among […]
Andrzej Janik announced the release of ZLUDA 6, an open-source implementation of CUDA technology. The project aims to enable unmodified CUDA applications to run on non-NVIDIA GPU systems with performance approaching that of natively implemented applications. The project's code is written in Rust and licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. ZLUDA 6 has become […]
The Git 2.55 release of the distributed source control system has been announced. Key changes include: the inclusion of Rust builds by default, implementation for Linux fsmonitor process, a new strategy for repackaging the incremental MIDX index, the "git history fixup" command for fixing a commit, optimizations for generating object availability bitmaps, support for parallel hook execution, and the "git format-rev" command. Git code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. By […]
Wine 11.12, an experimental release of the open source Win32 API implementation, has been released. Since the release of 11.11, 27 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: libswresample (for changing the audio sample rate) and libswscale (for scaling images and converting pixel formats) have been ported from FFmpeg to Wine. Previously ported libraries have been updated to FFmpeg 8.1.1. […]
The Book-Like CMS "Froggy-BLC" (1.02) has been released. This release features a custom implementation of the "p" tag—"rich-paragraph role=paragraph" (HTML5). This is necessary to support block elements within paragraphs, especially since CKEditor-4 automatically inserts "p" tags everywhere. Four vulnerabilities have been fixed. Work is underway to de-obscure the code, and significant progress has already been made. […]
Microsoft has announced the start of testing the system for launch Linux-containers in Windows, implemented on the basis of the WSL layer (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The toolkit provides a standard wslc command-line interface and API for creating, deploying, and running containers based on Linux from the entourage Windows, as well as to access running containers from WindowsFunctionality for working with […]
OpenAPV 0.3, the reference implementation of the APV (Advanced Professional Video) video codec, has been released. It is designed for professional video recording and processing without noticeable loss of quality. The library code is written in C and distributed under a BSD license. The project is being developed by the Academy Software Foundation, an organization created to promote the use of open source software in filmmaking. The APV format offers high […]
The xsnow app, which implements a falling snow effect on the desktop, has a hidden change inserted that displays the Ukrainian flag with a 2% probability. For users with the Russian locale, the probability of displaying the flag increases to 30%. Similar activity is also present in Debian-xsnow package supplied in the repository Debian 13. In a complaint sent to the team Debian Quality Assurance Team, responsible for maintaining quality […]