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[$] Inkscape 1.4 coming soon

Linux Weekly News
9 hónap 1 hét óta
The open-source vector-graphics editor, Inkscape, is expected to release version 1.4 in October. The release represents an evolutionary step for the program, which brings new features, user-interface improvements, new and improved file-format support, and important changes to the code base. The changes in this release should improve the user experience for both casual and professional designers, and make Inkscape more compatible with proprietary vector-graphics software, including Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer.
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[$] BTF, Rust, and the kernel toolchain

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9 hónap 1 hét óta

BPF Type Format (BTF), BPF's debugging information format, has undergone rapid evolution to match the evolving needs of BPF programs. José Marchesi spoke at Kangrejos about some of that work — and how it could impact Rust, specifically. He discussed debug information, kernel-specific relocations, and the planned changes to kernel stack unwinding. Each of these will require some amount of work to fully support in Rust, but preliminary signs look promising.

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Manjaro 24.1 released

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9 hónap 1 hét óta

Version 24.1 of the Arch-based Manjaro distribution is now available with the 6.10 Linux kernel, GNOME 46.5, KDE Plasma 6.1 and KDE Gear 24.08:

Plasma 6.1 on Wayland now has a feature that "remembers" what you were doing in your last session like it did under X11. Although this is still work in progress, If you log off and shut down your computer with a dozen open windows, Plasma will now open them for you the next time you power up your desktop, making it faster and easier to get back to what you were doing. At Manjaro we are still defaulting to X11, however switching to Wayland can be done easily by selecting the wanted session in your display manager.

The project also offers minimal install images with the 6.6 LTS and 6.1 LTS kernels to support older hardware as needed.

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Security updates for Wednesday

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9 hónap 1 hét óta
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana), Fedora (cjson and php), Oracle (389-ds-base, freeradius, grafana, kernel, and krb5), Slackware (cryfs, cups, and mozilla), SUSE (OpenIPMI, openssl-3, openvpn, thunderbird, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (cups, cups-filters, knot-resolver, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, orc, php7.4, php8.1, php8.3, python-asyncssh, ruby-devise-two-factor, and vim).
jzb

Hangot adott a Microsoft a Copilotnak

HWSW
9 hónap 2 hét óta
Emberszerűbb interakciókkal teszi valódi virtuális asszisztenssé a Copilotot a Microsoft, amivel próbálja felvenni a versenyt az egyre erősebb AI-mezőnyben.
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FFmpeg 7.1 released

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9 hónap 2 hét óta

Version 7.1 of the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit has been released. Important changes in this release include the VVC decoder reaching stable status, and inclusion of support for MV-HEVC decoding (which is generated by recent phones and VR headsets), as well as support for Vulkan encoding with H264 and HEVC. See the announcement and changelog for full details.

jzb

[$] An update on gccrs development

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9 hónap 2 hét óta
One concern that has often been expressed about the Rust language is that there is only one compiler for it. That makes it hard to say what the standard version of the language is and restricts the architectures that can be targeted by Rust code to those that the available compiler supports. Adding a Rust frontend to GCC would do much to address those concerns; at the 2024 GNU Tools Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry gave an update on the state of that work and what its objectives are.
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Security updates for Tuesday

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9 hónap 2 hét óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support, nghttp2, and sqlite3), Oracle (cups-filters, kernel, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (openssl-3), and Ubuntu (bubblewrap, flatpak and python2.7, python3.5).
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