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Visual Studio Code announced new monthly 1.101 (aka May 2025) releases few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source code editor allows you to define tool sets through either the UI or a proposed API. Tool set can group related tools together, making it easier to use them in your chat.
For NVIDIA users who want to enable hardware acceleration for Firefox video playback, NVIDIA VA-API driver released v0.0.14 few days ago with improved compatibility and various fixes.
As you may know, Firefox in Linux does NOT support NVDEC (NVIDIA Video Decoder) to accelerate video decoding. As a workaround, user may use the free open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver as VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend.
Warehouse, the popular Flatpak app management software, released new 2.1.0 version today!
Warehouse is a free open-source application that provides a simple user interface to manage all installed Flatpak apps. With it, you may view app info, change app version (upgrade/downgrade), manage user data and left overs.
To follow the upstream GNOME’s road-map, Ubuntu confirmed to remove the classic X11/Xorg session in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release!
GNOME development team is planning to disable X11 session by default in next GNOME 49 and remove the code in v50.
TLDR: The X11 session for GNOME 49 will be disabled by default and it’s scheduled for removal, either during this development cycle or more likely during the next one (GNOME 50).
QDiskInfo, the free open-source S.M.A.R.T. utility, released new 0.4 version in last week!
For those who don’t know about QDiskInfo, it’s a frontend for smartctl to control and monitor SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) Disks, such as SATA and NVMe SSD.
Dolphin, the free open-source emulator for GameCude and Wii games, released new 2506 version (and 2506a with quick-fix for Android)!
The release introduced new audio system to workaround hitching or shuttering issue, improved frame pacing, and added ability to render game output beyond 60 FPS.
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Audacious audio player announced the 4.5 beta release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu using PPA.
The new release of this lightweight free open-source XMMS fork added new plugins, new lyrics provider, fixed various bugs, and improved PipeWire output support.
For those who are interested in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release, the first snapshot of the development version is available to download for testing on desktop, server, WSL.
Ubuntu introduced new monthly snapshot releases policy few days ago. And, the first snapshot for Ubuntu 25.10 is out available to download for all supported platforms.
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NVIDIA announced the 575.57.08 driver yesterday as the latest new feature branch version for Linux users.
This is the first stable release in the 575 series, though it has only 2 bug-fixes compare to the last Beta which was released more than a month ago.
OBS Studio, the popular live streaming and screen recording software, released the first Beta for next major 31.1.0 version today!
The new release of this free open-source software added many new features, various improvements, and dozens of bug-fixes.
First of all, the release added initial support for Windows on ARM devices. Though the current ARM builds for Windows are NOT full featured and should be considered experimental.
