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Ardour 5.9 released

Ardour 5.9 is now available, representing several months of development that spans some new features and many improvements and fixes. Among other things, some significant optimizations were made to redraw performance on OS X/macOS that may be apparent if you are using Ardour on that platform. There were further…

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Fuzzing Irssi

There have been recent efforts within the Irssi and open source security communities to make Irssi more secure through the use of fuzzing. For example the security bugs revealed in the first Irssi security advisory of 2017 were found by fuzzing. In this blog post, we will cover an introduction to fuzzing, how to fuzz…

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Homebrew 1.2.0

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.2.0. The most significant change since 1.1.0 is that most Homebrew taps (package repositories) in the Homebrew GitHub organisation have been deprecated and the currently buildable software moved into Homebrew/homebrew-core. This will improve the quality and availability of all…

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Ubuntu 17.04 Released

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the…

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Terraform 0.9

We've released Terraform 0.9. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching any infrastructure. Since our last major Terraform release, we had 8 minor releases to add and improve hundreds of resources and dozens of providers and the number of community contributors has increased…