Month-to-month Information – February 2023 – The Linux Mint Weblog

February 28, 2023

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Linux Mint 21.2

In preparation for Linux Mint 21.2, the modifications under have been carried out.

Nemo 5.8 will function multi-threaded thumbnails. As a substitute of producing every thumbnail one after the other, Nemo will generate a number of thumbnails in parallel. This makes use of extra CPU however it ends in loading listing content material quicker, particularly for directories which include a considerable amount of media recordsdata.

CJS 5.8, the Cinnamon Javascript interpreter, can be rebased on GJS 1.74 and make use of SpiderMonkey (libmozjs) 102. The present model of cjs makes use of SpiderMonkey 78.

XDG Desktop Portal implementations are being written for Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. This may present higher compatibility between desktop environments and non-native functions equivalent to flatpaks or libAdwaita apps (although these are normally written just for GNOME anyway). Amongst different issues it will make it attainable for these apps to take screenshots or to assist dark-mode.

Warpinator

Warpinator is designed to let folks see one another and share recordsdata on the native community as simply as attainable and with out setup. Though entry to the native community itself needs to be monitored/restricted within the first place, when you’re linked to it, you’ll be able to see and work together with different Warpinator cases.

The SUSE safety staff just lately carried out a assessment of the codebase and highlighted some issues. Discussions adopted and selections have been taken to harden the safety in Warpinator.

Safety bugs (CVE-2022-42725) have been mounted to forestall recordsdata probably being written outdoors of the obtain listing within the case of a malicious distant copy of Warpinator.

Setting a bunch code grew to become a requirement for the appliance to stay open indefinitely or to be began robotically after login. Solely computer systems which share the identical group code see one another and their communication is encrypted. This was carried out to forestall a malicious copy of Warpinator from pretending to be another person on the community and provoke transfers, particularly in circumstances the place the goal’s occasion is ready to robotically settle for incoming requests.

Individuals who need to casually share recordsdata every now and then would talk first, agree on timing and what’s being shared. They’d launch their cases across the identical time and anticipate what they agreed on. On this situation the shortage of setup requirement is essential and there’s no important want for a bunch code.

In preparation for future potential bugs or safety points, modifications are presently being carried out to utterly isolate Warpinator from the filesystem and make it technically unable to write down anyplace aside from within the incoming folder.

Warpinator is utilized in many alternative methods and in numerous environments. Whether or not it’s in an workplace with a safe community and a mess of computer systems which belief every others and are consistently open to transfers… or on a public Wifi between two buddies’ laptops, and even as we just lately talked about simply you sending recordsdata to your self from/to a smartphone, a steam deck or one other field. We wish Warpinator to work for everybody, to be as safe as attainable in environments the place it’s setup to be safe (with a bunch code, autostart, auto-accepting requests and so forth..), and to require no configuration in use circumstances the place customers themselves talk first and don’t depend on the community to belief every others.

Server upgrades

We’ve been upgrading a few of the servers. This prompted a little bit little bit of downtime up to now few days on the weblog and on the boards specifically. We’d prefer to apologize for the inconvenience.

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