Ring-KDE
3.0.0, a GNU Ring.cx client, has been released. GNU Ring is a secure,
distributed communication platform based on open industry-standard technologies for audio calls,
video conferences, chat, screen-sharing and peer-to-peer file transfer. This
new version of Ring-KDE is a full rewrite of the app “to use more modern
technologies such as touch support, QtQuick2 and KDE Kirigami adaptive widget
framework”. When you join GNU Ring, “no servers or centralized
accounts are needed. Beside an optional blockchain-based way to reserve your
username against takeover, nothing leaves your device”, and Ring-KDE “provides
a simple wizard to help you create credentials or import your personal
information from other devices.” For more info, also visit here.

Intel
debuts a totally silent ruler-shaped solid state drive, the Intel SSD DC
P4500. This SSD is can store 32
terabytes—”equivalent to triple the entire printed collection of
the U.S. Library of Congress”. In addition, “the no-moving-parts ruler-shaped
SSDs can be lined up 32 side-by-side, to hold up to a petabyte in a single
server slot. Compared with a traditional SSD, the ‘ruler’ requires
half the airflow to keep cool. And compared with hard disk storage, the new
3D NAND SSD sips one-tenth the power and requires just one-twentieth the
space.”

Several security vulnerabilities were discovered recently in OpenEMR, developer of open-source electronic health records and practice
management tools, possibly affecting the data of more than 90 million
patients. Info
Security Magazine reports that the issues “included nine separate SQL
injection vulnerabilities, four remote code execution flaws and several
arbitrary file read, write and delete bugs. Others included a portal
authentication bypass, unauthenticated information disclosure, and cross-site
request forgery”. Info Security notes that OpenEMR team has since
patched “most” of the
vulnerabilities.

PostgreSQL announces
a slew of new releases: 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, 9.3.24 and
11 beta 3. The third beta release of PostgreSQL 11 “contains previews of all
features that will be available in the final release of PostgreSQL 11”. Two
security issues and more than 40 bugs are also fixed in these updates.

Unigine, the Linux-friendly commercial game and professional graphics engine has released version
2.7.2. According to Phoronix, this release “has better importing support for CAD models,
optimized texture streaming, physically-based cameras and lights, an improved
particle system, multi-channel rendering improvements, and various other
optimizations and polishing. Unfortunately, no word on Vulkan support yet for
Unigine 2.” For more info, see also the Unigine
Dev site.

Jill Franklin is an editorial professional with more than 17 years experience in technical and scientific publishing, both print and digital. As Executive Editor of Linux Journal, she wrangles writers, develops content, manages projects, meets deadlines and makes sentences sparkle. She also was Managing Editor for TUX and Embedded Linux Journal, and the book Linux in the Workplace. Before entering the Linux and open-source realm, she was Managing Editor of several scientific and scholarly journals, including Veterinary Pathology,The Journal of Mammalogy, Toxicologic Pathology and The Journal of Scientific Exploration. In a previous life, she taught English literature and composition, managed a bookstore and tended bar. When she’s not bugging writers about deadlines or editing copy, she throws pots, gardens and reads. You can contact Jill via e-mail, [email protected]