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Blender, the popular 3D computer graphics software, released new major 5.0 version yesterday.
The new 5.0 release overhauled the color management pipeline with native wide-gamut and HDR color spaces support.
It can now display and export HDR and wide-gamut colors for both images and video. And, it added new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as alternative to AgX and Filmic, AgX HDR view, and Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays.
GIMP, the popular image editing software, announced the first release candidate for the next major 3.2 version yesterday.
This is the third development release for GIMP 3.2. It introduced some new keyboard shortcuts, new and improved image formats support, API changes and UI/UX improvements.
Hugin, the free open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging program, release new 2025.0.0 version few days ago.
The new version of this yearly release software, introduced new GUI tool called Hugin Toolbox, which provides a graphical user interface for enfuse and simple perspective correction.
For Ubuntu LTS releases, starting from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the official support has been extended to 15 years.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced the expansion of the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro few days ago. Along with the Standard and Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) support, the total coverage is expanded to 15 years.
Apache NetBeans, the free open-source IDE for Java, C/C++, PHP, and HTML5, released new version 28 few days ago.
The new IDE release updated UI with a tool widget to execute common text encoding in the IDE: Base64, URL and Hex encoding/decoding.
It added delete button for the SSH Connection Dialog, updated Add Language Description panel layout to be properly resizable, and brought a couple of smaller improvements relating to keyboard shortcuts in various platform components.
Easy Effects, the free open-source audio equalizer and effects application for Pipewire, released new major 8.0.0 version few days ago.
The new app release switched its UI backend from GTK4 plus LibAdwaita to Qt6, QML and Kirigami. The Flatpak package is now based on KDE runtime platform instead of GNOME.
Microsoft announced .NET 10, the free open-source cross-platform developer platform, a day ago!
The new .NET 10 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release that features three years support until November 10, 2028. Users are argued to upgrade to the new version to take advantage of the extended support, performance improvements and new features!
Mission Center, the popular Linux system monitor and task manager app, released new 1.1.0 version today.
The new release of this free open-source app improved CPU monitoring support. It can now display the amount of electrical energy that CPU consumes in watts.
It works by reading /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/energy_uj for CPU power draw. The file is however unreadable by default for security reason. Meaning user needs to grant read access permission by running the command below in terminal:
sudo chmod a+r /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/energy_uj
After 9 Beta releases, Mozilla Firefox 145.0 is finally available to download.
The new browser version introduced new phase of privacy protections. For Private Browsing or when using Enhanced Tracking Protection set to Strict, the amount of Firefox users track-able by fingerprinters is reduced by half. See this page for more details.
In addition, Enhanced Bounce Tracking Protection stateless mode is now enabled by default in ETP Strict, blocking more advanced tracking techniques based on redirection.
Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu and Debian based Linux Distribution, is going to add new system administration, information tools, and redesigned application menu in next release.
As you may know, Linux Mint has an official blog that updates monthly with news about the development process. In recent updates, it introduced some exciting new features that will include in next Linux Mint 22.3.
