Audacity 4.0.1, the first maintenance update for the new major 4.0 series, was released yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source audio editor brings back some features missing from Audacity 3.x, and fixes various bugs.
For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users, the channel for upgrading to the latest Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now enabled!
The Ubuntu Team announced the upgrade enable-ment yesterday on Sep 29:
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce that upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”, are now enabled.
As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. That work is now complete, and users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager, rolled out progressively over the coming days.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install and try out Myna, Ubuntu’s new offline speech to text feature in Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is developing a voice typing application called Myna. It’s an opt-in feature in Ubuntu 26.10, while the current Ubuntu 26.04 can also try it out.
Firefox 157.0, the new biweekly release of this popular web browser, is available to download.
The new version of this browser features the biggest redesign of its user interface in years. As you see in the screenshot, the window corner, tabs, address bar, input box, menus, and almost everything with borders are more rounded than before.
The left-sidebar is now more compact. Toolbar and side-bar icons now look bolder. The address bar border is now highlighted when in focus. And, the settings page now use purple color for highlighted items.
In addition, the version features new built-in themes with light and dark variants.
And, a new “Window density” section is added in Appearance settings page, allowing to change the spacing around window elements like toolbar, tabs, and sidebar between standard, compact, and touch fit to different screens or devices.
WebRTC video calls can now use your GPU for hardware accelerated AV1 decoding if supported, instead of always decoding AV1 video in software.
When pressing Tab keyboard key, it now moves focus straight to the text field of the address bar and search bar instead of stopping on the search engine button first.
And, the Firefox Suggest feature in the address bar is now available for users in more Countries including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Other changes in Firefox 157.0 include:
- Show warning when a website is set to allow other computer software to read encrypted web traffic.
- Exclude Amazon from the built-in search engine list.
- Enable the updated side-bar for everyone, though it can be disabled by set
sidebar.revampto false. - Support the
at-rule()function for@supports. - Support the
chainvalue for the CSSoverscroll-behaviorproperty. - Various security and other fixes.
Get Firefox 157.0
The official release note as well as the download link will be soon available in Firefox website via the link below:
If you can’t wait, then get it from this Mozilla web-page.
For Linux Distributions, it’s recommended to wait your distro update. Though, there are also Flatpak package and Ubuntu PPA (need to set prority) available for choices.
gThumb, the open source image viewer and organizer application designed for GNOME, released new 4.0 version today!
The new version of this GNOME image viewer and browser is finally ported to GTK4 + LibAdwaita, making it a modern native app for recent GNOME desktops.
VLC, the free open-source and cross-platform media player, released new 3.0.24 version in last week.
The new version of this popular media player comes with more than 130 security fixes, some new audio/video codecs support, and various other fixes and improvements.
Fastfetch, the popular tool for fetching system information and displaying in command-line interface (CLI), released new 2.69.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source NeoFetch like tool added more detection support for Linux, macOS, Windows, and Android users.
RustDesk, the popular open-source remote desktop software, released new 1.5.0 version today!
The new version comes with many UI and UX improvements, new and updated translations, and various bug-fixes.
Dolphin, the free open-source GameCube and Wii emulator, released new 2609 version today after 3 months of development.
The new Dolphin Emulator version mainly includes new features and fixes for Android users, while PC platform also get a few updates.
For those who want to install the most recent Krita 6.0.4 (or Krita 5.3.4) in native .deb package, I’ve updated the PPA for Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Krita, KDE’s digital painting software, is now at version 5.3.x and 6.0.x release series. They are almost functionally identical; one is built with Qt 5, while the other is built with Qt 6.
