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Wallpaper Competition for Ubuntu 26.04, Resolute Raccoon, opened for submissions. 6 of them will be included in the disc images.
This is one of my top favorite community activities. I’m neither an expert artist nor a professional photographer, but I can get many cool images and vote my favorites to be optional wallpapers for all Ubuntu users.
For Linux Mint users, the Beta release of next version 22.3 is now available to download for testing purpose.
Linux Mint 22.3, code-name “Zena”, features Cinnamon Desktop 6.6.2, modern new application menu, and new application to configure the boot menu.
For .NET developers and users, Ubuntu is finally adding the latest .NET 10 support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04/25.10, and next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
.NET 10 is the Long Term Support (LTS) version that was released a month ago. It features 3 years support until November 10, 2028.
The 25.12.0 version of Kdenlive video editor is finally available to download!
The new version of this KDE’s software added a welcome dialog at app start, allowing to open or create new project, or create new from a profile.
For new users, the welcome screen also provides options to select prefer color scheme, and configure default profile resolution, frame rate, layout orientation, and video/audio tracks number etc.
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OpenShot, the free open-source and easy-to-use video editor, released new 3.4 version yesterday.
It’s been almost a year since the last! The new release improved the overall performance with 32% speed up, and introduced many new effects.
The second RC development release for the GIMP image editor 3.2 is out!
The new release introduced less features compare to the last RC1, but focused on improvements to performance and existing features and vulnerability fixes.
Scribus, the free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.5 version few hours ago.
It’s been 8 months since the last point release, and the new 1.6.5 is also a maintenance release that contains only bug-fixes and improvements.
Ubuntu Team announced the second development release of Ubuntu 26.04, Resolute Snapshot 2, yesterday afternoon (UTC time).
The date was moved up by a week, because of end-of-year (EOY) shutdown and the developers need more time to fix issues before holidays.
Whilst the snapshot was planned for next week, we wanted to do it a week earlier so as to give ourselves some time to fix anything that might break ahead of the EOY shutdown from w/c December 22nd.
After more than two months of Beta testing, System76 finally announced the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS.
As the version number indicates, Pop!_OS 24.04 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, but features Linux Kernel 6.17 and its new COSMIC desktop environment.
For users of Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Unity, the 2 Linux Distributions will NOT be the official flavors for the next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Ubuntu announced the LTS qualifications for Resolute Raccoon in last week:
We haven’t seen LTS requalification requests from Ubuntu MATE nor Ubuntu Unity, so these will release subject to release team approval, and they will be non-LTS.
