News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Mesa, the open-source implement of OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, OpenGL, and other graphics API, released new 26.2.0 version on Wednesday.
The new version updated its Rusticl OpenCL implementation with OpenCL 3.1 capability across Apple AGX, Intel, AMD, Vulkan-based, and CPU software backends, allowing OpenCL 3.1 applications to run through Mesa on those platforms.
GNOME 50, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 Workstation, released its 4th maintenance today.
The new version, GNOME 50.4, fixed various crashes, security issues for GDM login screen, and the annoying app search function not working issue.
GNOME Boxes, GNOME’s virtualization software for running operating systems in virtual machines, released the Beta for next 51 version.
The new version is finally ported from GTK3 to GTK4 plus LibAdwaita, making its user interface look modern and native in recent GNOME Desktops.
KDE Plasma, the popular Linux desktop environment, released new 6.7.4 bug-fix and stability release yesterday.
The new desktop version introduced multi-GPU and display handling improvements, better input, accessibility, and UI consistency, and various fixes across the desktop, KWin, and other components.
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 9.0 version today.
The new version of this library introduced some new decoders and encoders, hardware accelerated encoders and filters for better performance, as well as many other new features.
NVIDIA announced the 610.57.04 driver along with 595.91.07 for Linux this monday!
The production branch driver 595.91.07 includes only many bug fixes and improvements, while the 610.57.04 feature branch driver fixed crashes in many games.
Mutter, the window manager and Wayland compositor used by GNOME, released new 51 Beta version today.
The new version of this GNOME component that manages windows, handles input devices, and draws the desktop, added support for Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 protocol.
GNOME Document Viewer, aka Papers, released new 51 Beta version one day ago.
The new version of this GNOME core application for reading PDF / DejaVu documents as well as Comic Books archives introduced visual signature support.
Rhythmbox, the default music player in Ubuntu (Extended selection), released new 3.5.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source GTK3 music player finally switched the audio playback backend from xfade to multistream.
GNOME is going to support uninstalling applications directly from the App Grid, by adding “Uninstall” option to app icons’ right-click menu.
The feature is to be implemented by a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 project via a contributor from India.
