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Muen 1.0, an open source microkernel: 10/25/2021 After eight years of development, the Muen 1.0 Separation kernel was released. The absence of errors in the source code was confirmed using mathematical methods of formal verification of reliability. The kernel is available for the x86_64 architecture and can be used in mission-critical systems that require an increased level of reliability and guarantee that there are no failures. The source of the project are written in the Ada language and its verifiable dialect SPARK 2014 . The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. https://groups.google.com/g/muen-dev/c/mzd5E6lLomw
OpenLDAP 2.6.0 released: 10/26/2021 The OpenLDAP 2.6.0 package has been released, offering a multi-platform implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for organizing and accessing directory services. The project is developing a modular server part that supports various storage and data access backends, a proxy balancer, client utilities and libraries. The code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like OpenLDAP Public License. https://www.openldap.org/software/release/announce.html
Launch of ncspot, a console Spotify client: 10/26/2021 There was a release ncspot 0.9 , a lightweight console client for the music service Spotif, written in Rust. The interface is skinnable and developed using the ncurses library. By default, PulseAudio is used as the sound server (compilation flags must be specified to use an alternative sound backend). Source code is distributed under BSD license. According to the developer, this client compares favorably with the official and alternative clients by a wider coverage of operating systems (in particular, * BSD systems are supported), significantly lower resource consumption (RAM consumption is more than 20 times lower, 46.2 MiB instead of 1000.0 MiB ), as well as the increased stability of the work provided by the use of the Rust language. https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/releases/tag/v0.9.0
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Vulkan 1.1 Graphics API Certified for Raspberry Pi 4: 10/26/2021 Raspberry Pi developers announced a certification by Khronos - v3dv graphics driver that has successfully passed more than 100 thousand tests from a set of CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and is recognized as fully compliant with the specification Vulkan 1.1 . The driver is certified using the Broadcom BCM2711 chip used in the Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400 and Compute Module 4 boards. Verification was performed on a Raspberry Pi 4 board with a Raspberry Pi OS distribution based on Linux kernel 5.10.63, Mesa 21.3.0 and X -server. Obtaining the certification allows you to officially declare compatibility with graphics standards and use the associated Khronos trademarks. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/vulkan-update-version-1-1-conformance-for-raspberry-pi-4/
Crabz 0.7, multithreaded compression utility: 10/27/2021 Crabz implements multi-threaded data compression and decompression, similar to the pigz utiliy. Both of these utilities are multi-threaded versions of gzip that are optimized to run on multi-core systems. Crabz itself differs in that it is written in the Rust programming language, in contrast to the pigz utility written in C/C++, and demonstrates a performance gain, in some cases reaching 50% (when using an alternative backend). The developer page has a detailed comparison of the speed of both utilities with different keys and used backends. The measurements were made on a 1.5 gigabyte csv file using a PC based on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor and 64 GB DDR4 RAM and on the Ubuntu 20 operating system as a test bench. https://github.com/sstadick/crabz
X.Org Server 21.1 available: 10/27/2021 After three and a half years since the last major release of X.Org Server 21.1 there is a ne version. Starting with the presented branch, a new issue numbering scheme has been put into operation, allowing you to immediately see how long ago this or that version was published. By analogy with the Mesa project, the first number of the version reflects the year, the second number indicates the serial number of the major release for the year, and the third number is used to flag corrective updates. https://www.mail-archive.com/xorg@lists.x.org/msg06880.html
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Trisquel GNU / Linux 9.0.1: 28.10.2021 A year after the last release, an update has been published for the completely free Linux distribution Trisquel 9.0.1. It is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and aimed at small businesses, educational institutions and home users. Trisquel is personally endorsed by Richard Stallman and is officially recognized as completely free by the Free Software Foundation, and is listed as a recommended distribution by the Free Software Foundation. Installation images are available for download in sizes 2.6 GB, 2 GB and 1.1 GB (x86_64, i686). The release of updates for the distribution will be carried out until April 2023. In the new release, the installation images have been updated and the new versions of the fix packages from the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS branch have been ported. The Abrowser browser (Firefox with patches) has been updated to version 93. The installation builds solved the problem with access to repositories and updates due to the delivery in the ca-certificates package of the outdated IdenTrust root certificate, which was used to cross-sign the Let's Encrypt CA root certificate. They updated the completely free version of the Linux kernel - Linux Libre, in which additional cleaning of proprietary firmware and drivers containing non-free components was carried out . https://trisquel.info/en/release-announcement-trisquel-901-etiona-security-update
New version of Cygwin 3.3.0: 10/28/2021 Red Hat has published a stable release of Cygwin 3.3.0, which includes a DLL for emulating the basic Linux API on Windows, allowing you to build Linux-specific programs with minimal changes. The package also includes standard Unix utilities, server applications, compilers, libraries and header files directly assembled for execution on Windows. Cygwin 3.3.0 will be the last release to support Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and 32-bit installations, while Cygwin 3.4.0 will be the last release to support Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012. On branches after this, Cygwin will only support systems starting with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/msg09893.html
Sniffglue traffic analyzer 0.14.0 released: 30.10.2021 The sniffglue 0.14.0 network analyzer has been released, which analyzes traffic in passive mode and uses multithreading to distribute packet parsing work across all processor cores. The project is aimed at safe and reliable operation when intercepting packets in untrustworthy networks, as well as displaying the most useful information in the default configuration. The product code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 + license. An interesting feature of sniffglue is the use of the seccomp mechanism for additional protection, which prevents a compromised process from using those system calls that are clearly not needed for its work. In addition, before running the utility, you need to set up a directory for chroot and an unprivileged account, on behalf of which, the sniffer will be launched. The program supports ethernet, ipv4, ipv6, arp, tcp, udp, icmp, http, tls, dns, dhcp, ssdp, ppp and 802.11 protocols. The new version marks several corrective changes, adding SLL support for PPP, providing seccomp with access to the getpid system call, and publishing the installation instructions in the Guix distribution. https://github.com/kpcyrd/sniffglue
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Termination of Trident development: 10/30/2021 The termination of development of the custom Trident distribution , originally developed on FreeBSD and TrueOS (PC-BSD), but two years ago transferred to the Void Linux package base, was announced. The distribution used the ZFS file system and the OpenRC init system. The decision to phase it out, was made by key developers, whose life circumstances have changed recently, as have personal preferences. The gradual decommissioning of infrastructure elements will begin on November 1 and will end on March 1, 2022, when the project site will be stopped and the package repository is disabled. https://project-trident.org/post/2021-10-29_sunset/
Apache OpenMeetings 6.2 available: 31.10.2021 The Apache Software Foundation presented the 'web-conferencing server' release of Apache OpenMeetings 6.2, allowing you to organize audio and video conferencing via the Web, as well as the collaboration and the exchange of messages between the parties. Both webinars with one speaker and conferences with an arbitrary number of participants interacting with each other are supported. The project code is written in Java and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Additional features include: tools for integrating with a calendar-scheduler, sending individual or broadcast notifications and invitations, sharing files and documents, maintaining the address book of participants, keeping an event protocol, jointly scheduling tasks, broadcasting the output of running applications (screencast demonstration), and conducting polls. https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/openmeetings-v6-2-0-openapi
Vaultwarden 1.23, released: 11/01/2021 The Vaultwarden 1.23.0 project (former bitwarden_rs) has been released. They developing an alternative server side for the Bitwarden password manager, API-compatible and able to work with official Bitwarden clients. The goal of the project is to provide a cross-platform implementation that allows you to run Bitwarden servers at your own facilities, but unlike the official Bitwarden server, they consume significantly less resources. The Vaultwarden project code is written in Rust and is licensed under the GPLv3.0 license. PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL are supported as DBMS. For comparison, the official Bitwarden server is written in C# using .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, tied to MS SQL Server and supplied under the AGPLv3.0 license, which does not allow creating services without opening their code. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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Blender Community Releases Sprite Fright Animated Movie: 11/01/2021 The Blender Project has unveiled a new animated short, “ Sprite Fright ”, a Halloween-themed 80's horror comedy movie. The project was led by Matthew Luhn, known for his work at Pixar Studios. The film was created using only open working tools for modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking and video editing. The project acted as a test base for honing new capabilities and technologies for creating modern visual effects developed in the new Blеnder branches. This is the thirteenth animation project of the Blender community. https://www.blender.org/
New release of antiX 21: 11/01/2021 A new release of the lightweight Live-distribution AntiX 21, optimized for installation on outdated hardware, was announced. The release is based on Debian 11, but comes without the systemd system manager and with eudev instead of udev. You can choose to use runit or sysvinit for initialization. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager. ZzzFM and ROX-Filer file managers are available. The new release includes Linux kernels 4.9.0-279 with fbcondecor splash and 5.10.57 (x64 full only), LibreOffice 7.0.4-4, Firefox-esr 78.14.0esr-1 in antiX-full, Seamonkey 2.53. 9.1 in antiX-base, Claws-mail 3.17.8-1, CUPS for print, XMMS for listening to music, Celluloid and mpv for playing videos, SMTube for playing YouTube videos without a browser, Streamlight-antix for streaming videos with very low RAM usage, Qpdfview is a PDF reader. https://antixlinux.com/antix-21-grup-yorum-released/
Release of MPV 0.34: 02.11.2021 After 11 months of development, the open-source video player MPV 0.34 was released , which in 2013 forked from the code of the MPlayer2 project. MPV focuses on developing new features and ensuring that innovations are continually brought from the MPlayer repositories without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is licensed under the LGPLv2.1 + license, some parts remain under the GPLv2, but the migration to the LGPL is almost complete and the “–enable-lgpl” option can be used to disable the remaining GPL code. http://mpv.io/
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Fedora Linux 35 Distribution Released: 02.11.2021 Prepared for download are Fedora Workstation , Fedora Server , CoreOS , Fedora IoT Edition , as well as a set of “spins” with Live-assemblies of desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, i3, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE and LXQt. It is available for x86_64, Power64, ARM64 (AArch64) architectures and various devices with 32-bit ARM processors. The release of Fedora Silverblue builds is delayed. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35/
OpenSUSE Leap 15.3-2 First Quarterly Update Available: 02.11.2021 The openSUSE project has published the first update to the installation images for the openSUSE Leap 15.3 QU1 distribution (15.3 Quarterly Update 1 or 15.3-2). The proposed builds include all package updates that have accumulated four months after the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3, and also fix the installer bugs. Systems installed earlier and kept up to date received updates through the standard update installation system. In the future, distribution updates are planned to be published once a quarter. It is expected that the publication of additional quarterly updates will reduce the amount of data downloaded. https://news.opensuse.org/2021/11/02/leaps-first-quarterly-update-is-released/
Canonical unveils Intel-optimized Ubuntu builds: 03.11.2021 Canonical announced the beginning of separate system images of Ubuntu Core 20 and Ubuntu Desktop 20.04, optimized for 11th generation Intel Core processors (Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake), Intel Atom X6000E chips and N and J series Intel Celeron and Intel Pentium. The reason for creating separate images is the desire to improve the efficiency of using Ubuntu in Internet of Things (IoT) systems based on Intel chips. https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-optimised-for-intel-processors-accelerates-adoption-of-iot-innovations
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Release of Asterisk 19 communication platform and FreePBX 16 distribution 03.11.2021 After a year of development, a new stable branch of the open communication platform Asterisk 19 was released, which is used for deploying software PBXs, voice communication systems, VoIP gateways, organizing IVR systems (voice menu), voice mail, telephone conferences and call centers. The source code of the project is available under the GPLv2 license. Asterisk 19 article listed in the category of issues with the usual support, updates, which are available for two years. Support for the past LTS branch Asterisk 18 will last until October 2025, and Asterisk branch 16, until October 2023. LTS branch 13.x and intermediate branch 17.x are no longer supported. LTS releases focus on stability and performance optimization, while regular releases prioritize functionality enhancements. Simultaneously, after three years of development, the release of the FreePBX 16 project was published, which develops a web interface for managing Asterisk and a ready-made distribution kit for rapid deployment of VoIP systems. The changes noted support for PHP 7.4, API extension based on the GraphQL query language, transition to a single PJSIP driver (the Chan_SIP driver is disabled by default), support for creating templates to change the design of the user control panel, a redesigned firewall module with advanced capabilities for managing SIP- traffic, the ability to configure protocol parameters for HTTPS, binding AMI only to localhost by default, an option to check the strength of passwords. https://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-news/asterisk-19-0-0-now-available/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 beta testing begins: 03.11.2021 Red Hat has announced the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Ready- to-use installation images have been prepared for registered users of Red Hat Customer Portal ( CentOS Stream 9 iso images can also be used to evaluate functionality ). Package repositories are available without restriction for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. The sources for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rpm packages are located in the CentOS Git repository. The release is expected in the first half of next year. In line with a 10-year support cycle the RHEL 9 distribution will be maintained until 2032. Updates for RHEL 7 will continue to be released until June 30, 2024, and RHEL 8 until May 31, 2029. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-85-beta-now-available
ClamAV 0.104.1 update: 11/04/2021 Cisco has released a new free ClamAV antivirus package 0.104.1 and 0.103.4 . Recall that the project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, which develops ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. https://blog.clamav.net/2021/11/clamav-01034-and-01041-patch-releases.html
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Open source Luau, a type-checking variant of Lua: 04.11.2021 Robox announced and published the first standalone release of the Luau programming language, continuing the development of Lua and backward compatible with Lua 5.1. The Luau language is designed primarily for embedding scripting engines into applications and aims to achieve high performance and low resource consumption. The project code is written in C++ and is open under the MIT license. Luau extends Lua with type checking capabilities and some new syntax such as string literals. The language is backward compatible with Lua 5.1 and partially with newer versions. The Lua Runtime API is supported, which allows you to use Luau with pre-existing code and bindings. The language runtime is based on a heavily revised Lua runtime 5.1 code, but the interpreter has been completely rewritten. During the development, some new optimization techniques were used, which allowed it to achieve higher performance compared to Lua. The project was developed by Roblox and is used in the code of the gaming platform, games, and custom applications of this company, including the Roblox Studio editor. Initially, Luau was developed behind closed doors, but in the end it was decided to transfer it to the category of open projects for further joint development with the participation of the community. https://luau-lang.org/2021/11/03/luau-goes-open-source.html
Release of Tixati 2.86: 11/05/2021 The free proprietary torrent client Tixati 2.86, available for Windows and Linux, has been released. Tixati is notable for giving the user more control over torrents over memory consumption, comparable to clients such as µTorrent and Halite. The Linux version uses a GTK2 based interface . https://update-check.tixati.com/checkver/2.85.1/
LXQt 1.0 Graphics Environment Released: 11/05/2021 After six months of development, the LXQt 1.0 user environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) was released, developed by the joint development team of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface continues to follow the classic desktop organization, bringing a modern look and feel to enhance the user experience. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast and convenient continuation of the development of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktops, incorporating the best features of both shells. The code is hosted on GitHub and licensed under GPL 2.0+ and LGPL 2.1+. Ready builds are expected for Ubuntu (LXQt is offered by default in Lubuntu), Arch Linux , Fedora , openSUSE , Mageia , FreeBSD , ROSA and ALT Linux . https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/1.0.0
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Tails 4.24 distribution released: 06.11.2021
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.24 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on Debian and designed to provide anonymous access to the internet, has been published . Anonymous logging into Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data mode between runs. A 1.1 GB iso-image capable of working in Live mode has been prepared for download .
In the new version, we switched to the Tor Browser 11 browser branch, the stable release has not yet been formed (instead of the expected stable release of Browser 11.0, another test release of Tor Browser 11.0a10 was published, based on Firefox 91.3 ESR and the alpha version of Tor 0.4.7.2).
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.24/index.en.html
Cryptographic library wolfSSL 5.0.0 released: 11/07/2021
A new release of the wolfSSL 5.0.0 compact cryptographic library is now available, optimized for use on embedded devices with limited processor and memory resources, such as IoT devices, smart home systems, automotive information systems, routers and mobile phones. The code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
The library provides high-performance implementations of modern cryptoalgorithms, including ChaCha20, Curve25519, NTRU, RSA, Blake2b, TLS 1.0-1.3 and DTLS 1.2, which, according to the developers, are 20 times smaller than the OpenSSL implementations. Both its simplified API and a layer for compatibility with the OpenSSL API are provided. There is support for OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) and CRL (Certificate Revocation List) for checking certificate revocation.
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/tag/v5.0.0-stable
Release of Snoop 1.3.1: 11/07/2021
The release of Project Snoop 1.3.1, an OSINT forensic tool that searches for user accounts in public data, has been released. The program analyzes various sites, forums and social networks for the presence of the desired username, i.e. allows you to determine on which sites there is a user with the specified nickname. The project was developed off research work in the field of public data scraping.
The code is written in Python and is licensed under a limited personal use license. At the same time, the project is a fork of the code base of the Sherlock project, supplied under the MIT license (the fork was created due to the inability to expand the base of sites).
https://github.com/snooppr/snoop/releases
System76 is creating a new user environment: 11/08/2021
Michael Aaron Murphy, development leader for the Pop!_OS distribution and contributor to the Redox operating system, has confirmed that System76 is developing a new non-GNOME Shell desktop environment written in Rust. System76 intends to completely move away from building its user environment based on the GNOME Shell and develop a new desktop using the Rust language in development. It should be noted that System76 has extensive experience in Rust development. The company employs Soller Jeremy, founder of the operating system Redox, GUI Orbital and toolkit OrbTk, written in Rust. Pop! _OS already ships with Rust components such as an update manager , a power management system, a firmware management toolkit, service for launching programs, installer, settings widget and configurators.
Rav1e 0.5, AV1 encoder, released: 08.11.2021
Rav1e 0.5.0 , an encoder for AV1 video encoding format, was released. The product is being developed by the Mozilla and Xiph communities and differs from the libaom reference implementation written in C / C++ in terms of increased coding speed and increased attention to security (compression efficiency is still lagging behind). The product is written partly in Rust with assembly optimizations (72.2% - assembler, 27.5% - Rust), the code is distributed under the BSD license. Ready builds are prepared for Windows and macOS (Linux builds were temporarily skipped due to continuous integration issues).
Rav1e supports all major AV1 features, including support for intra- and inter-coded frames (intra and inter frames), 64×64 superblocks, 4: 2: 0, 4: 2: 2 and 4: 4: 4, 8 color subsampling -, 10- and 12-bit color depth coding, RDO (Rate-distortion optimization) distortion optimization, various modes of predicting interframe changes and detecting transformations, flow rate control and scene truncation detection.
The AV1 format is noticeably ahead of H.264 and VP9 in terms of compression capabilities, but due to the complexity of the algorithms that implement them, it takes significantly more time for encoding (in terms of encoding speed, libaom lags behind libvpx-vp9 by hundreds of times, and thousands of times behind x264). The rav1e encoder provides 11 performance levels, the highest of which achieve speeds close to real-time encoding. The encoder is available both as a command line utility and as a library.
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/releases/tag/v0.5.0
Godot 3.4 released: 08.11.2021
After 6 months of development, the free Godot 3.4 game engine has been released, suitable for creating 2D and 3D games. The engine supports an easy-to-learn language for defining game logic, a graphical environment for designing games, a one-click game deployment system, extensive animation and physics simulation capabilities, a built-in debugger and a system for identifying performance bottlenecks. The game engine code, game design environment and related development tools (physics engine, sound server, 2D / 3D rendering backends, etc.) are distributed under the MIT license.
New release of Raspberry Pi OS distribution: 09.11.2021
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have published an autumn update for the Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) distribution based on Debian. Three builds are prepared for download - a reduced ( 463 MB ) for server systems, with a desktop ( 1.1 GB ) and a complete one with an additional set of applications (3 GB). The distribution comes with a custom PIXEL environment (a fork of LXDE). About 35 thousand packages are available for installation from the repositories .
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-debian-bullseye/
Release of an alternative build of KchmViewer: 10.11.2021
An alternate release of KchmViewer 8.1, a chm and epub file viewer, is available. The alternative fork is distinguished by the inclusion of some enhancements that did not make it and most likely will not make it to the upstream. The KchmViewer program is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license.
https://github.com/u-235/kchmviewer/releases/tag/v8.1-rc
Release of the turn-based game Rusted Ruins 0.11: 11.11.2021
Rusted Ruins 0.11, cross-platform roguelike computer game was released. The game uses pixel art and typical Rogue-like interaction mechanisms. According to the plot, the player finds himself on an unknown continent, filled with the ruins of a ceased civilization, and collecting artifacts and fighting enemies, bit by bit, collects information about the secret of the lost civilization. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready packages are generated for Linux (DEB) and Windows.
https://github.com/garkimasera/rusted-ruins/releases
Release of Nebula 1.5, a system for creating overlay P2P networks: 12.11.2021
The Nebula 1.5 project is available, which offers tools for building secure overlay networks that can combine from several to tens of thousands of geographically separated hosts, forming a separate isolated network on top of the global network. The project is designed to create your own overlay networks for any needs, for example, to combine corporate computers in different offices, servers in different data centers or virtual environments from different cloud providers. The code is written in Go and is licensed under the MIT license. The project was founded by Slack, which develops the corporate messenger of the same name. Supports Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.