News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Transmission, the BitTorrent client that’s default in Ubuntu (when installed in “Extended selection” mode since 24.04), will be possibly forked into “ReTransmission”.
Someone asked “Why has the project been forked as ‘retransmission’?” in the project discussions page, and the maintainer answered:
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QPDF, the popular command-line tool for transforming, inspecting, and repairing PDF files, released new 12.4.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source software library and CLI tool rewrote the Tab completion function for zsh & bash shells, introduced a few security updates, and fixed various issues.
LightDM, the lightweight display manager originally developed by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), returns by releasing version 1.33.0 a few days ago.
It’s the first release in four years, that features bug-fixes for the issues since the last 1.32.0 and Qt6 support, while Qt5 will continue to be available.
Sushi, the file previewer for GNOME desktop environment, released version 51 Beta in last week.
GNOME Sushi was revived several months ago. With the latest 51 development version, it’s finally ported to GTK4 with some new functions and API updates.
Opera, the free Chromium based web browser, released new stable 134 version a few days ago.
The new Opera version updated its Chromium base platform to the previous 150 stable release. And, it finally makes the Vertical Tabs feature available for all users.
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.
