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On January 31, after a year and a half of continuous development, version 1.0 of the lightweight and portable cross-platform vector graphics library ThorVG, intended for visualizing vector scenes and animations, has been released. It supports file loading in Lottie and SVG Tiny 1.2 formats (the list of implemented SVG Tiny features is available on the project's Wiki). The library provides convenient APIs for importing, creating, and displaying vector graphics, as well as […]
Camilla Moraes, a product manager at GitHub, initiated a discussion about adding a feature to GitHub for automatically blocking spam pull requests generated by AI assistants that are submitted without manual review and do not meet quality standards. Such changes create additional burden on maintainers, who have to spend time sifting through useless code. As a short-term solution to the problem, […]
Microsoft has revised the security guidelines for Windows 11. Now, administrator rights are required to access the local storage settings page, a key section for managing disk space, cleanup tools, and system files. On paper, this change seems minor, but it may confuse users who will encounter a previously accessible section that now necessitates elevated permissions. Microsoft plans […]
Niels Möller I'm pleased to announce the major new release of GNU Nettle, a low-level cryptographic functions library. This release includes several API changes, some of which are quite significant, as well as the removal of deprecated functions. There is one notable new feature: support for SLH-DSA signatures (a stateful hash-based digital signature algorithm). This is a major new release. It includes […]
The ninth release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment has been published, developed from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine some innovative ideas that have not been seen before in user environments with traditional elements such as a plugin-supported panel, application menu, and a desktop where shortcuts can be placed. Work is currently focused on launching in environments on […]
New details have emerged about the promotion of the Aluminium operating system, developed by Google for laptops, mini-PCs, and tablets as part of the plan to merge the Android and Chrome OS platforms. In a transcript of a Google representative's speech during a court hearing related to the antitrust case by the U.S. Department of Justice against Google, it is mentioned that support for Chromebook devices with the ChromeOS operating system […]
A release of the main branch nginx 1.29.5 has been formed, in which the development of new features continues, along with the simultaneous release of a stable branch nginx 1.28.2, which only includes changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The updates address a vulnerability (CVE-2026-1642), allowing an attacker who has the ability to intercept (MITM) the communication channel between nginx and the upstream server to substitute the messages sent to the client […]
The first major release from the Document Foundation in 2026 focuses on performance, compatibility, and file formats, specifically addressing the issues that truly hinder productivity, rather than adding flashy features or, more importantly, chasing the hype surrounding AI, as other office suites do. New features: LibreOffice 26.2 allows importing and exporting files in Markdown format […]
James Morris, the maintainer of the Linux kernel security subsystem and head of the "Linux Emerging Technologies" team at Microsoft, has presented the Litebox project, billed as a security-focused operating system in the form of a Library OS. Litebox can be used in applications or kernels as an additional layer of isolation, blocking access to excess kernel functionality or APIs to reduce the attack surface […]
After almost four months of development, the release of the 0.40 console utility nwipe has taken place, designed for securely wiping disk content using various wiping methods and pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). It can wipe one disk or several simultaneously. nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command from the Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) project, featuring numerous enhancements and optimizations. The utility is written […]
The official release of 9.10 GNU Coreutils has occurred—essentially the standard core utilities set in Linux systems and some other platforms. Significant changes include: The man-page generation process has been modified. Command-line options described in the man-page can be made hyperlinked. The timeout command now intercepts all signals leading to process termination and guarantees that the child command is completed before its own termination. The paste(1) command has been corrected […]
JetBrains has announced plans to include support for the Wayland protocol by default in the upcoming IntelliJ 2026.1 integrated development environments. Prior to the release, users can test Wayland support using EAP builds of IntelliJ IDEA (Early Access Program). IDEs based on IntelliJ will now be able to run directly in Wayland-based desktop environments without using XWayland. […]