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On January 26, the release of version 1.12 of the cross-platform widget library TGUI, written in C++ and distributed under the Zlib license, took place. The minimum standard version is C++14. For compilers GCC >= 11, Clang >= 16, and IntelLLVM, C++17 is used by default. The library supports several input-output backends (CMake parameter TGUI_BACKEND): SFML_GRAPHICS – sfml-graphics SFML_OPENGL3 – sfml-window + OpenGL + […]
On February 2, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.53 was announced. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for nonlinear development, based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience to 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of all previous history in each commit is used, along with digital signatures by developers for individual tags and commits. […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of Linux kernel 6.19. Among the most notable changes are: the Live Update Orchestrator subsystem, support for PCIe Link Encryption, the listns system call, Zero-Copy Receive mode in io_uring, support for the ARM MPAM extension, klp-build for generating live patches, support for the LoongArch32 architecture, QoS for s2idle, optimization of the audit subsystem, Intel LASS for protection against Spectre, and support for hashes […]
On February 5, 2026, a new version of Ardour, the popular cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) with open-source code for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems, was released. This is a major release that includes much-anticipated user features and numerous improvements. Ardour is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPL 2+ license. Key innovations include Region FX: the ability to add a plugin (such as a delay) to an individual audio fragment. […]
Anthropic has announced an expansion in its AI model Claude Opus 4.6, enhancing its capabilities for finding vulnerabilities in code and sharing the results of an experiment that identified over 500 previously unknown (0-day) vulnerabilities in the latest versions of various open-source projects. The work focused on vulnerabilities caused by memory handling issues, as these are easier to verify. Everyone […]
Christian Hergert, the author of the GNOME Builder integrated development environment, the Ptyxis terminal emulator, and the GNOME Text Editor, has announced that due to relocating from the USA to France and changing life priorities, he will no longer be able to dedicate the necessary attention to GNOME development. Christian was almost the sole active maintainer for 16 GNOME modules and over forty hours […]
The release of the mobile platform LineageOS 23.2 is now available, continuing the development of the codebase based on Android 16. The LineageOS 23.2 branch has reached feature and stability parity with the 23.0 branch and is deemed ready for release. Builds have been prepared for 148 device models. LineageOS can also be run in the Android Emulator, in QEMU, and in the Android Studio environment. Additionally, provided […]
On January 31, after a year of development, a new release of ScummVM was made — a collection of rewritten game engines originally designed to run games from LucasArts using the SCUMM system. Thanks to its thoughtful architecture, ScummVM also supports many non-SCUMM games from companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft, for which custom resource interaction interfaces have been developed. According to the developer, this is the largest release […]
Version 1.21.0 of the highly precise console scientific calculator Numbat, written in Rust and distributed under the MIT and/or Apache 2.0 licenses, has been released. Key features of Numbat include full support for physical dimensions and units of measurement; a statically typed programming language for scientific computing; autocompletion of function names, units of measurement, and variables; input history search; and a large set of built-in functions and constants: […]
Vyacheslav Dubeyko from IBM initiated a discussion on the kernel developers' mailing list regarding the use of machine learning models in the Linux kernel and proposed a set of patches for testing that includes a library for integrating ML models into the kernel along with an example of a symbolic driver utilizing the library. Integrating ML models into the kernel could enhance how subsystems operate based on the data being processed, […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.2 — has been published. Since the release of 11.1, 32 bug reports have been closed and 238 changes made. The most significant updates include optimization of PDB file loading in DbgHelp, support for running constructors and destructors in MSVC added to the CRT (C runtime), and simplified generation of versioned resources from variables in the makefile. The libpng 1.6.54 libraries have also been updated, […]
The release of version 9.5.0 of the libzim library, designed for working with ZIM format files, has been announced. The library is developed and sponsored by the Kiwix project. ZIM is a format intended for offline storage of information obtained from the Internet in a single file. A ZIM file contains logically related HTML pages (and sometimes entire website images) in compressed form with functioning hyperlinks, images, audio […]