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VKD3D-Proton 2.14 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-13 16:01 by Philipp Esselbach 0

VKD3D-Proton Version 2.14 has been released, introducing a variety of new features, enhancements in performance, bug fixes, and solutions for specific games. The update features the implementation of DXGI frame statistics, a global frame rate limiter, support for planar video formats, D24 depth bias, a new command interop interface, GPU upload heap from the latest AgilitySDKs, and ID3DDestructionNotifier.

CentOS Stream 10 released

CentOS 5533 Published 2024-12-13 15:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CentOS Stream 10 has been released, featuring updates such as Linux kernel 6.12, Python 3.12, Go 1.23, Rust 1.82, Valkey 7.2, and GNOME 47.

Intel Arc B580 Reviews and more

Reviews 52183 Published 2024-12-13 09:42 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Here is a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Computers: Comino Grando H100 Review - 188GB of NVL GPU Memory
Cooling: Valkyrie V360 Lite ARGB Black Review
Displays: AOC AGON Pro 326UD 4K OLED 165Hz Gaming Monitor Review
Gaming: The Thaumaturge Review – A Promising RPG Practice Run, Woojer Vest 3 High Fidelity Haptic Vest Review
Graphics Cards: Intel Arc B580 Review - Excellent Value, Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Review: A Mighty Midrange Gaming GPU, Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition 12 GB "Battlemage" Graphics Card Review - A New Mainstream King, Intel ARC B580 Limited Edition graphics card
Headphones: 1MORE SonoFlow Pro Review, Powercolor Alphyn AH10 wireless gaming headset review - Not bad at all, if it weren't for the price
Networking: XikeStor SKS1200-8XGT Review A Cheap 8-port 10Gbase-T Switch
Power: Green Medel GP1000B-EDGE ATX v3.1 PSU Review
Storage: Samsung PM1743 E3.S 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - OG Gen5 Standard Beare

Bottles 51.16 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-13 08:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Bottles 51.16 has undergone bug fixes, enhancements to blueprints, and refinements in the Flatpak manifest. The identified issues encompass a restoration process for snapshots, the need for alphabetising options for programs, crashes occurring during bottles-cli execution, and launch options that are not being respected when initiated from the desktop entry.

GE-Proton9-21 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-13 08:53 by Philipp Esselbach 0

GE-Proton9-21 has been released, featuring updates to multiple proton game files, including mono, icu for both 64 and 32 bit, wine, dxvk, vkd3d-proton, and vkd3d. The patch 56653 has backported a bug fix from Wine for GetLogicalProcessorInformation, effectively addressing edge case crashes encountered in certain games. Proton updates encompass addressing issues with Dirt 3 outside of Steam, eliminating unnecessary fixes, and disabling Esync and Fsync for Supreme Commander.

VSCodium 1.96.0.24347 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-13 08:51 by Philipp Esselbach 0

VSCodium 1.96.0.24347 has been released, featuring a range of updates such as patch enhancements, elimination of mangling in extensions, client support, substitution of the ripgrep binary for riscv64, modifications to URLs, improvements in the build process, PPC64LE UI support, and an updated version of Electron.

LibSoup, Kernel, PgPool, Smarty, Chromium updates for Debian

Debian 10253 Published 2024-12-13 08:42 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Debian GNU/Linux has received several security updates, including libsoup2.4, linux-6.1, pgpool2, smarty4, and chromium:

Debian GNU/Linux 8 (Jessie), 9 (Stretch), 10 (Buster) Extended LTS:
ELA-1272-1 libsoup2.4 security update

Debian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch) and 10 (Buster) Extended LTS:
ELA-1271-1 linux-6.1 new linux version

Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) LTS:
[DLA 3993-1] pgpool2 security update

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm):
[DSA 5830-1] smarty4 security update
[DSA 5829-1] chromium security update

Smarty, NVIDIA, GKE, AsyncSSH, PHP updates for Ubuntu

Ubuntu 6605 Published 2024-12-13 08:37 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Ubuntu Linux has received a series of security updates, addressing vulnerabilities in Smarty, NVIDIA, GKE, AsyncSSH, and PHP:

[USN-7158-1] Smarty vulnerabilities
[USN-7159-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
[USN-7155-1] Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
[USN-7156-1] Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities
[USN-7154-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
[USN-7108-2] AsyncSSH vulnerabilities
[USN-7153-1] PHP vulnerability

Govulncheck-vulndb, NodeJS20, Socat, and more updates for SUSE

SUSE 5172 Published 2024-12-13 08:35 by Philipp Esselbach 0

SUSE Linux has received several security updates, including moderate updates for govulncheck-vulndb, nodejs20, socat, nodejs18, python310-Django, libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring, radare2, govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20241209T183251-1.1, buildah, java-1_8_0-ibm, qemu, and chromium:

SUSE-SU-2024:4299-1: moderate: Security update for govulncheck-vulndb
SUSE-SU-2024:4300-1: moderate: Security update for nodejs20
SUSE-SU-2024:4302-1: moderate: Security update for socat
SUSE-SU-2024:4301-1: moderate: Security update for nodejs18
openSUSE-SU-2024:14568-1: moderate: python310-Django-5.1.4-1.1 on GA media
openSUSE-SU-2024:14570-1: moderate: libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring-1-0-1.14.5-1.1 on GA media
openSUSE-SU-2024:14569-1: moderate: radare2-5.9.8-1.1 on GA media
openSUSE-SU-2024:14567-1: moderate: govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20241209T183251-1.1 on GA media
SUSE-SU-2024:4303-1: moderate: Security update for buildah
SUSE-SU-2024:4306-1: moderate: Security update for java-1_8_0-ibm
SUSE-SU-2024:4304-1: important: Security update for qemu
openSUSE-SU-2024:0406-1: important: Security update for chromium
openSUSE-SU-2024:0405-1: important: Security update for chromium

Ruby, Pythom, HawtIO, Unbound, PCS, OpenShift updates for RHEL

Red Hat 9056 Published 2024-12-13 08:33 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Matrix-Synapse, Chromium, Thunderbird, Linux-Firmware, Open62541 updates for Fedora

Fedora Linux 8801 Published 2024-12-13 08:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Fedora Linux has received several security updates, including matrix-synapse, chromium, thunderbird, linux-firmware, and open62541:

Fedora 40 Update: matrix-synapse-1.111.1-3.fc40
Fedora 41 Update: chromium-131.0.6778.139-1.fc41
Fedora 41 Update: thunderbird-128.5.2-1.fc41
Fedora 41 Update: linux-firmware-20241210-1.fc41
Fedora 41 Update: open62541-1.4.8-1.fc41
Fedora 41 Update: matrix-synapse-1.118.0-3.fc41

Audacity 3.7.1 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-12 15:25 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Audacity 3.7.1 patch release addresses issues in effects, reinstates the installation directory, and enhances the "Adjust Playback Speed" dialog, thereby preventing crashes and elevating the user experience.

pgAdmin 4 8.14 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-12 15:23 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The pgAdmin Development Team has announced the release of pgAdmin 4 version 8.14, which incorporates 23 bug fixes and introduces new features. Significant updates encompass the incorporation of tags on server nodes, enabling NULL ordering for columns in view/edit data filter dialogs, displaying auto-complete column names in filtered rows dialogs, utilizing a pgpass file in the pgAdmin container through Docker secrets, transmitting connection details as placeholders in the passexec command, and implementing pgAdmin in a container with readOnlyRootFilesystem set to true.

Proton 9.0-4 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-12 13:33 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Valve Software has announced the release of Proton 9.0-4, which addresses issues for several games, including APB Reloaded, Conqueror's Blade, Cube Hero Odyssey, Disgaea 4 Complete+, Hard Chip Demo, ScarQuest, Sniper Elite, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, Total War: SHOGUN 2, and Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2.

The update also resolves issues with Hell Let Loose, Final Fantasy XVI, and additional titles. This update addresses keyboard input issues in Rivals of Aether II, resolves the crashing of Chromacell on launch, and introduces support for NVIDIA Optical Flow API and DLSS 3 Frame Generation. The update resolves various issues, including the malfunctioning of single-player games such as Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Hard Reset Redux, and Shadow Warrior on AMD GPUs. It also addresses the improper exit of Skull and Bones on Nvidia GPU systems, the unplayability of Dark and Darker following a game update, and the lack of configurability in the EA Desktop App setup.

OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 released

Mandriva 1274 Published 2024-12-12 13:16 by Philipp Esselbach 0

OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 has been released with an updated iteration of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment, showcasing spins that include the latest desktop environments such as GNOME, LXQt Qt6, Plasma 5, and COSMIC 1.0 alpha. The Plasma6 Wayland ISO is available as well. Proton can be found in the OpenMandriva repository under the names proton and proton-experimental, allowing access beyond the Steam platform. The OM-Welcome Startup and Configuration tool undergoes continuous improvements, with software being upgraded to the latest versions.

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta released

Linux Mint 41 Published 2024-12-12 10:44 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 22.1 release is now available for testing.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta released

Red Hat 9056 Published 2024-12-12 10:38 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Red Hat has announced the release of the first beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, which is anticipated to achieve general availability in mid-2025.

ARCTIC P12 PWM PST A-RGB 120 mm Fan Review and more

Reviews 52183 Published 2024-12-12 10:16 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Here is a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Cooling: ARCTIC P12 PWM PST A-RGB 120 mm Fan Review
Gaming: Anyaroth: The Queen’s Tyranny – A Retro Action Platformer Review, Fairy Tail 2 Review - Saving the World and Not Much Else
Memory: KLEVV URBANE V RGB 32GB DDR5 7600 Memory Review
Motherboards: ASUS TUF Gaming Z890-Pro Wi-Fi Motherboard Review - Loads of Expansion Potential
Printers: QIDI TECH Plus4 3D printer in test - A tank on the move
Software: Fedora Kinoite 41 review - My first taste of immutability

QEMU 9.2.0 released

Software 42815 Published 2024-12-12 09:38 by Philipp Esselbach 0

QEMU 9.2.0 has been released, featuring more than 1700 commits contributed by 209 authors. Notable features encompass the provision for 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications through the Venus Vulkan driver, cryptographic support for SHA-384 hashes, QATzip-accelerated compression capabilities, experimental Rust support for device models, ARM emulation support for FEAT_EBF16 and FEAT_CMOW architecture features, and two-stage SMMU translation for sbsa-ref and virt boards.

UPX-UCL, Libsoup2.4, Python-Aiohttp updates for Debian

Debian 10253 Published 2024-12-12 09:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Debian GNU/Linux has received security updates, including the upx-ucl update, libsoup2.4 update, and python-aiohttp update:

Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) LTS:
[DLA 3991-1] upx-ucl security update
[DLA 3992-1] libsoup2.4 security update

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm):
[DSA 5828-1] python-aiohttp security update

Tornado and oFono updates for Ubuntu

Ubuntu 6605 Published 2024-12-12 09:04 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Ubuntu Linux has been updated with two security updates: [USN-7151-1] Tornado vulnerabilities and [USN-7151-1] oFono vulnerabilities.

[USN-7150-1] Tornado vulnerabilities
[USN-7151-1] oFono vulnerabilities