Paul Davis has announced the release of a hotfix release of Ardour, addresses two significant issues:
1. A critical bug that disrupts workflow by causing the software to crash frequently when musical time is set as the default time domain, particularly during operations such as timestretching or pitch-shifting.
2. An issue has been identified where meters not expressed in quarter notes (e.g., 6/8 or 5/8) lead to a crash when attempting to add BBT markers.
Users of version 8.10 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 8.11 promptly to mitigate these issues.
The first release candidate for Mesa 25.0.0 is now available for testing.
The second release candidate for PHP 8.4.4 is now available.
The second beta version of Godot 4.4 has been released, resolving issues identified in beta 1. The project has reached a feature freeze, concentrating on resolving new regressions and bugs. The release date is contingent upon the reporting of bugs. Users are invited to evaluate the beta releases to enhance the overall experience. Contributions facilitate the ongoing efforts of the project, which is sustained by dedicated volunteers alongside a select group of compensated contributors. The Web and Android editors are now available, and pre-release builds are ready for testing purposes.
A new version of the ROCm Radeon compute platform is available that includes several improvements and updates to the software. The documentation has been updated to provide clearer guidance for various user needs and use cases, including compatibility with deep learning frameworks, HIP C++ language extensions, kernel language C++ support topics, and operating system and hardware support.
ROCm 6.3.2 also adds support for Azure Linux 3.0 (kernel: 6.6), which is only supported on AMD Instinct accelerators. Key changes to ROCm components include tracking of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) handlers, optimizing HSA callback performance, multi-threaded dispatches for performance improvement, and switching to std::shared_mutex in book/keep logic in streams from multiple threads simultaneously.
PHP 8.4.4 RC1 has been released for testing, featuring a range of fixes and enhancements. This list encompasses resolutions for fundamental bugs, DOM-related issues, GD-related problems, FTP errors, GD complications, Opcache discrepancies, PCNTL issues, PCRE errors, PDO-related bugs, PDO Firebird Statement destructor concerns, use-after-free scenarios when modifying default fetch class constructor arguments, PgSql errors, Phar-related issues, PHPDBG bugs, session-related problems, SimpleXML errors, SNMP issues, SPL bugs, standard discrepancies, Windows-related bugs, clang compiler detection, and zip-related issues.
The release candidate for PHP 8.3.17 has been released for testing, including issues with ini_parse_quantity(), GH-17214, and NULL arithmetic during system program execution on Windows. It also addressed potential OOB when checking for trailing spaces on Windows and fixed NULL arithmetic in System V shared memory emulation for Windows. The DOM has fixed issues with requesting nodeName on nameless doctype, enchant has fixed crashes when passing null bytes, FTP has fixed issues with ftp functions, GD has fixed issues with tilded truecolor filling, and UConverter::transcode has fixed issues with invalid encoding. The Opcache has fixed internal closure causes JIT failure, and PDO has fixed memory leaks and crashes. The PHPDBG has fixed crashes in function registration and test, session issues, SimpleXML issues, SNMP issues, SPL issues, and zip issues.
OWASP CRS 4.11.0 has been released, featuring the removal of certain rules, including those related to the absence of viable attack scenarios, aliases, and function names. Additional modifications consist of rendering 932300 case-insensitive, eliminating SQL function names, and resolving issue 3809.
VSCodium 1.96.4.25026 has been released. VSCodium is VS Code without MS branding and telemetry.
A new version of "AM", an application manager for AppImages, has been launched. The new version adds support for FISH-shell autocompletion, BASH completion, and a new -f option for locked versions. In addition, an automated action system has been introduced to Github actions to ensure correct script functionality and secure third-party database support in the event of an issue.
The first release candidate for Apache NetBeans IDE 25 has been released for testing, featuring various enhancements aimed at optimizing the development workflow. Improvements encompass Gradle, Maven, Ant, Java, Groovy, PHP, VSCode, Web, Web.jsf, OCI Cloud Assets, JS CDT Debugger, CSS, JS, and UI.
The Apache HTTP Server Project has announced the release of version 2.4.63 of Apache HTTP Server, representing the most recent update in the 2.4.x series of Apache HTTPD. This release is regarded as the most superior version of Apache, providing a range of enhancements, improvements, and performance upgrades compared to the 2.2 codebase. The release enhances and expands the Apache 2.2 API, necessitating the recompilation of modules developed for Apache 2.2. It is essential for users to guarantee the thread safety of modules when upgrading or installing this version of Apache.
Mesa 24.3.4 has been released.
Ventoy 1.1.00 has been released, which includes Shim updates, eweOS ISO support, and bug fixes.
Isaac Bennetch has announced the release of phpMyAdmin 5.2.2, a release focused on addressing bugs and including multiple security enhancements. Significant enhancements encompass the resolution of potential security vulnerabilities in sql-parser, check tables, Insert tab, slim/psr7, iconv, full path disclosure in the Monitoring tab, disabled theme manager, enabling server breadcrumb links, incorporating a cookie prefix '-__Secure-' to cookies, renaming databases with views, rectifying numerical table bugs, correcting default column order, optimizing speed during database exports, and enhancing collation support for MariaDB 10.10.
Wine Staging 10.0 based on the stable version of Wine 10.0 has been released.
The stable release of Wine 10.0 is now available and comes with over 6,000 individual changes and includes improvements such as the new ARM64EC architecture and high-DPI scaling support. The ARM64 architecture is fully supported, with feature parity with the ARM64 support. Hybrid ARM64X modules are fully supported, allowing mixing ARM64EC and plain ARM64 code into a single binary. The 64-bit x86 emulation interface is implemented, taking advantage of the ARM64EC support to run all of the Wine code as native.
VirtualBox 7.1.6, a maintenance release that incorporates enhancements and corrections to several features, has been released.
This encompasses tackling problems with Windows 11 24H2 guests encountering BSOD, enhancing the visibility of disabled preferences, fixing crashes on macOS hosts, reinstating lost functionality, and addressing regressions. The release also resolves issues related to screen flickering in Linux guests utilizing the VMSVGA graphics adapter and facilitates the export and import of virtual machines that include an NVMe storage controller. The release also resolves issues related to custom proxy servers in GUI settings, network modifications, guest operating systems, as well as Linux guest and host configurations, and Solaris host environments. The release additionally provides initial support for kernel 6.13 and kernel 6.4, along with further fixes for kernel 6.12.
Samba 4.20.7 has been released and represents the most recent stable version within the Samba 4.20 release series. Recent updates since version 4.20.6 encompass a range of enhancements and fixes.
Notable changes include improved performance of sharesec with a high volume of registry shares, resolution of compound rename failures from Mac clients due to NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR, and addressing a panic issue in close_directory. Additionally, a memory leak associated with wbcCtxLookupSid has been rectified, along with a fix for heap-user-after-free related to association groups. The updates also include adjustments to reverse values from hresult_errstr_const and hresult_errstr, the generation of Kerberos referral tickets for principals within domains, an update to CTDB for tracking TCP connections to public IP addresses, and measures to prevent event failure races.
The release candidate for Apache HTTPD webserver 2.4.63 has been made available, featuring a number of updates. These tasks involve updating the redirect-carefully example BrowserMatch configuration to align with more recent client versions, addressing potential crashes on error paths, extending timeouts for ACME server verification and certificate issuance, and adjusting the log level from error to debug when Stapling is enabled but a certificate lacks an OCSP responder URL. Furthermore, improvements have been made to mod_proxy_balancer, and the ldap-search option has been incorporated into mod_authnz_ldap.
