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Hello, Habr! I present to you the translation of the post: Migrating from Nginx to Envoy Proxy. Envoy is a high-performance distributed proxy server (written in C++) designed for individual services and applications, as well as a communication bus and 'universal data plane' developed for large microservice architectures 'service mesh'. The development took into account the solutions to problems that arose during the development of such […]
The Wine 4.17 release for developers is now available. It fixes 14 bugs and includes 274 changes. Major changes: the Mono engine has been updated; support for compressed textures in the DXTn format has been added; an initial version of the Windows Script runtime library has been proposed; support for processing device change notifications via the XRandR API; RSA key generation support; seamless proxy support has been implemented for the ARM64 architecture […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 is disabled by default (the setting security.tls.version.min is set to 3, establishing TLS 1.2 as the minimum version). In stable releases, TLS 1.0/1.1 is planned to be disabled in March 2020. Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be discontinued in Chrome 81, expected in January 2020. The TLS specification […]
An emergency release of the Exim mail server, version 4.92.3, has been published, fixing yet another critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-16928) that potentially allows remote code execution on the server via the transmission of a specially crafted string in the EHLO command. The vulnerability manifests itself after privilege escalation and is limited to code execution with the rights of an unprivileged user under which the incoming message handler runs. The issue occurs only in the […]
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in the world. It was created by the web development community in the late 2000s, leading to the emergence of a rich ecosystem of websites, plugins, and frameworks that use jQuery under the hood. However, in recent years, its status as the main tool for web development has waned. Let's explore why jQuery became popular and why it has fallen out of favor, as well as in […]
On September 27, 2019, Oracle announced in their blog the planned support timelines for Java SE and Solaris. The Java SE 8 branch will be supported until March 2025, while Java SE 11 will be supported until September 2026. Oracle also noted that these dates are not final and support may extend until 2030. Maintenance for these branches of Java […]
A common question from Windows developers is: "Why is still not available?" Whether it's powerful scrolling with less or familiar tools like grep or sed, Windows developers want easy access to these commands in their daily work. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has made significant strides in this regard. It allows invoking […]
Currently, this is one of the most expensive positions on the market. The hype around 'DevOps' engineers exceeds all conceivable limits, especially with Senior DevOps engineers. I work as the head of the integration and automation department, guess the English abbreviation — DevOps Manager. Does the English abbreviation truly reflect our everyday activities? Probably not, but the Russian version […]
Google has launched the release of the Chrome OS 77 software platform, which opens access to the Google Assistant voice assistant for most owners of devices running this operating system. Previously, only Pixel device owners could use the voice assistant. With the release of the new operating system version, Google Assistant will be available on many Chromebooks. To start interacting with the assistant, simply […]
According to reports from network sources, thousands of computers running Windows have been infected with a new type of malware that downloads and installs a copy of the Node.js infrastructure, turning infected systems into proxy servers used for conducting fraudulent operations. The malware, named Nodersok in a Microsoft report and Divergent in a Cisco Talos report, was discovered this summer. It was spread through […]
Google has announced the release of Chrome OS 77, based on the Linux kernel, using the upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and Chrome 77 web browser. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web apps are utilized; however, Chrome OS does include a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The Chrome build […]
A few hours ago, Richard Stallman announced on his personal website his immediate departure from the position of leader of the GNU project without explanation. Notably, just two days earlier, he stated that he would remain in charge of the GNU project and had no plans to leave this position. It is possible that this message is vandalism, published by an outsider as a result of a hack.