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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...
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Pine64 Februrary Update: Show and Tell
Welcome to this month’s community update. As many of you know, we have now entered the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, which means that all manufacturing and related business activities have ground to a halt. It is always a mad rush to complete ongoing work prior to CNY, but now that the festive period is upon us we…
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Sq, Sequoia PGP's CLI, Released
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
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K-9 Mail is looking for funding
K-9 Mail is looking to raise money to fund development.
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Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
Today Mozilla is thrilled to join the Rust community in announcing the formation of the Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation will be the home of the popula
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ReactOS Updates
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Haiku Activity Report – January 2021
Hello everyone, apparently we made it to 2021! This year we will see the 20th anniversary of Haiku. This report covers hrev54806-hrev54947. Architectures, ports, bootloaders PulkoMandy fixed the build of the openfirmware bootloader for PowerPC. It …
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Homebrew 3.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.0.0. The most significant changes since 2.7.0 are official Apple Silicon support and a new bottle format in formulae.
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Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
Docker has contributed Docker Distribution to the CNCF. This move will ensure Docker Distribution has a broad group maintaining what is the foundation for many registries.
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Apache Arrow 3.0
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 3.0.0 release. This covers over 3 months of development work and includes 666 resolved issues from 106 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected…
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
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LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition
A brand new version of the best free open source office suite, based on the LibreOffice Technology platform for desktop, mobile and cloud productivity Berlin, February 3, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.1 Community, the volunteer-supported version of the best open source office suite for desktop productivity, is available from…
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VideoLAN is 20 years old today
The VideoLAN project and the VideoLAN non-profit organization are happy to celebrate today the 20 th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the project.
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Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsearch lockdown
Crate.io will no longer use Elastic’s Elasticsearch as an upstream project for CrateDB and open source its entire codebase under the APLv2 with CrateDB 4.5
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Open Sourcing Tilt Brush
Tilt Brush, Google's virtual reality painting application, has collaborated with amazing creators over the years.
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Mozilla announces Open Web Docs
We’re happy and proud to announce Open Web Docs, to support a community of technical writers that is open and inclusive for all.
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Krita 4.4.2 Released
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic License (which limits how it can be used) or the Server…
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How We Ported Linux to the M1
Virtual iOS, Android, and Arm devices to speed up security testing, research, and DevSecOps for security teams, mobile pentesters, and software developers.
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report
This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between October and December, and is the fourth of four planned reports for 2020.
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Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch
In this blog, we describe how we leverage the authentication and authorization support in Open Distro for Elasticsearch to make elasticsearch a...
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Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Software That Sucks Less
We are the home of quality software such as dwm , dmenu , st and plenty of other tools , with a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for…
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PeerTube v3
Today we are releasing a major new version of PeerTube, our alternative to centralized video platforms like YouTube. Please note: La version Française (originale) de cet article est disponible ici ; Here is a direct link to the release, complete with its changelog. Wait... What is PeerTube? PeerTube is not a platform…
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SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone
After 3.5 years of development, Buttplug, the open source intimate haptics controls library created and maintained by Nonpolynomial, has finally arrived at its v1 release. Fitting that it’s also the first real blog post on the new Nonpolynomial Blog! For the project, this is actually a contraction rather than an…