GNOME, the popular Linux desktop environment, announced new 46 stable release this Wednesday! The new GNOME 46, code-name“Kathmandu”, will be default desktop for Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 planned for next month, and optional for Arch, Manjaro, etc. The Files, ...
Oracle announced the release of JDK 22 GA this Tuesday. “JDK 22 delivers 12 enhancements that are significant enough to warrant their own JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), including seven preview features and one incubator feature. They cover improvements to the ...
Mozilla announced a new monthly release of its Firefox web browser on March 19. In the new release, the caret browsing mode, keyboard navigating just like in text editor, also works in the built-in PDF viewer. The Qwant search engine ...
The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, was finally released this Tuesday! Similar to the one for current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the new wallpaper uses gradient color background (from purple in top-left to orange in bottom right?) with ...
For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the top 8 photo images that won the wallpaper competition are out! They will be shipped by default in the .iso image as optional wallpapers for Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop. Ubuntu Desktop team started the wallpaper competition ...
QMPlay2, the free open-source Qt media player, released version 24.03.16 few days ago. QMPlay2 is a Qt based media player that uses FFmpeg as backend for most video and audio codecs support. It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 ...
GNU Octave, the free open-source application for numerical computations, released new major 9.1.0 version! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04. The GNU website has not yet announced the new release, but ...
CopyQ, the popular free open-source clipboard manager, announced new 8.0.0 release today! The new release features new arm64 build packages for MacOS, Debian, and Raspberry Pi. The packages for Windows and MacOS are now based on Qt6 framework. The 64-bit ...
OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming app, announced new major 30.1 release this Wednesday! The new release enabled HDR for HEVC over the RTMP protocol, AV1 HDR is not currently supported by YouTube. OBS Studio 30.1 reworked Image ...
Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.8 stable as the latest Kernel series this Sunday. For Intel, the new kernel now includes the IAA (Intel Analytics Accelerators) crypto compression kernel driver, Qualcomm WCD939X USB subsystem Altmode Mux driver. It added support for ...
KeePassXC password manager announced the new 2.7.7 release this Sunday! Here are the new features and how to install instruction for Ubuntu. The new KeePassXC 2.7.7 features official support for Passkeys. It’s a type of login credential, that provides a ...
Kdenlive video editor released new 24.02.0 version this Monday! The new release now takes use of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 for its user interface. The port gets overall experience and better Wayland support for Linux users. And, it now ...
After almost 2 years, Cozy audiobook player, finally announced new 1.3.0 release days ago. Cozy is a free open-source application for Linux, allows to listen to your DRM free mp3, m4b, m4a (aac, ALAC, …), flac, ogg and wav audio ...
HexChat, the popular free open-source IRC chat client, discontinued! HexChat is a IRC chat client forked from XChat. It’s a GTK app written in mostly C programming language. Features include customizable interface, Windows and Linux support, scripting support with Lua, ...
Zorin OS, the popular Ubuntu based Linux Distribution, announced v17.1 this Thursday! Like Linux Mint, Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu LTS. The latest 17.x release series is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but features GNOME 43 desktop with custom ...