News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
OBS Studio, the free open-source live streaming and video recording application, released new major 33.0.0 version today.
The new version updates its Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) from the old version 127 to version 150. This upgrade moves Chromium forward by 23 major versions, bringing numerous security fixes and web-compatibility improvements.
KDE Rounded Corners, the open-source project that rounds window corners in KDE Plasma desktop, released new 0.11.0 version today.
The new version of this popular Kwin effect fixed the compatibility issue with Plasma 6.8, and introduced a new toggle option to that can lower GPU usage.
KeePassXC, the community fork of KeePass Password Safe, finally released new 2.8.0 version after a month of beta testing.
The new version of this popular cross-platform password manager finally migrated its UI from Qt5 to Qt6 for better graphics capabilities, HiDPI and HDR multi-monitor improvements, and robust Wayland support.
Fooyin, the foobar 2000 inspired music player, released new 0.14.0 version today for Linux and Windows.
The new version of this free open-source Qt based music player introduced drag and drop support for its layout editing mode.
qBittorrent, the popular qt-based bittorrent client, released new major 5.3.0 version a few days ago.
The new version of this free open-source application implemented several new libtorrent settings, introduced numerous improvements to its Qt and WebUI, and fixed various bugs.
Audacious, the lightweight Beep and XMMS fork music player, released new 4.6.2 version today. PPA updated for all current Ubuntu editions
The new version of this free open-source app improved its Qt version of Winamp interface to support the same features as the GTK version.
The Qt Winamp interface now provides an advanced skin selector with thumbnail preview in its settings dialog. And, user can now drag’n’drop skin files into the main window to install them.
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 7.3 on Sunday afternoon, October 18.
The new kernel release added many new hardware support, improved gaming performance for GPUs with limited VRAM, and introduced numerous other improvements.
For users who have upgraded to or installed Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray, most of the PPAs maintained by ubuntuhandbook.org have been updated with the new Ubuntu edition support.
The PPAs contain the software packages, native .deb format, that are either not yet available in the Ubuntu repositories or the Ubuntu repositories only provide an old version.
The Ubuntu team finally announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 today after 6 months of development!
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray”, has now arrived. Building on the foundations of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, this release continues to advance security, performance, and hardware support while introducing new capabilities that look towards the future of Ubuntu.
KDE announced the Plasma Desktop 6.8 yesterday, as the 30th anniversary edition.
The new version of this popular Linux Desktop environment introduced many new features, performance improvements and various fixes.
