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Coming six months after Scribus 1.6.6, the Scribus 1.6.7 release addresses seven security vulnerabilities discovered in Scribus’s image loaders and import filters, ranging from heap and integer overflows to out-of-bounds reads and access, so these alone are a solid reason to update your Scribus installations today.

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Collabora advances Mali GPU support with Kraid compiler and Tyr Rust driver

Collabora has announced two developments for open-source Arm Mali GPU support, with its Rust-based Kraid compiler becoming the default for newer Mali architectures in Mesa 27.0 and the Tyr kernel driver reaching a firmware-boot milestone in Linux 7.3. The updates improve shader compilation efficiency while advancing Rust-based GPU driver development in the Linux kernel.

DietPi v10.6 Adds Orange Pi and Odroid Images

DietPi v10.8 introduces a dedicated WireGuard management utility, named software package identifiers, and an updated HAProxy installation package. The October release also improves network configuration, expands storage device support on Quartz64 platforms, and addresses several bugs affecting system management and applications.

(Updated) ESP-Mosaico centers dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 around a 2.16-inch square AMOLED

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications.

Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2022

This series highlights best-of-breed utilities. We cover a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides.

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes and allows to search the history and copy it back to the system clipboard or paste it directly to other applications. The tool offers a lot of functionality.

It’s written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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