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Converseen, the popular batch image converting / resizing application, released new 0.15.0.0 version yesterday.
The new release of this popular free open-source app finally added options to choose a different theme, though only few choices are available so far.
GnuCash, the popular free open-source accounting software, released new 5.12 version yesterday.
This is the twelfth point release for 5.x release series that introduced various bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates. And, for Ubuntu users, the “Gnucash packaging team” PPA revived.
VirtualBox 7.2.0, the next major release of Oracle’s virtualization software, is now in second beta testing stage.
VBox 7.2.0 Beta 1 redesigned its UI with vertical menu options in left, allowing to navigate between Machines, Extensions, Media, Network, Cloud, Resources, as well as Home to get started.
It also added support running Windows 11 ARM as guest, and updated Windows installer with Arm virtualization support built-in.
VirtualBox 7.2.0 Beta
The second development release, Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2, is available to download now!
The developer team announced the new release at list.ubuntu.com:
By now, hopefully you’re already familiar with what monthly snapshots are. For those who are not, have a look at Jon’s blog post about it.
Now that you’ve got some context, I’d like to announce its second successful publication – Questing Snapshot 2. You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com.
Image by PixelPond from Pixabay
GIMP 3.1.2, the first development release for the next major GIMP 3.2, was released!
The new release of this popular image editor improved the built-in system theme, added many new file formats support, and introduced new painting mode.
The 140.0 release of Firefox web browser is available to download after 4 weeks of development and beta testing.
In addition to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Wikipedia, the new release introduced custom search engine support. User now can either right-click search field of a supported website and select Add Search Engine, or go to “Settings -> Search” to add search engine with custom name, URL, and optional keyword.
Darktable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 5.2.0 version few days ago!
The new release introduced side-by-side view (aka split view) to preview the different between snapshot and current images. And, it can be enabled by clicking on the “X|Y” icon next to “take snapshot” button.
OnlyOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, released new 9.0 version for its offline use desktop editors hours ago.
The new release introduced 2 new themes Modern Light and Modern Dark with redesigned UI elements and icons, as well as redesigned start window with focus on simplicity.
For KDE Plasma users, the new 6.4 release of this Linux desktop environment is out today!
Except the major 6.0, KDE Plasma usually rolls out new feature releases every 4 months. And Plasma 6.4 is the new update since February, which improved color rendering, tablet support, and the built-in screenshot tool.
Scrcpy, the popular Android screen mirroring and controlling app, release new 3.3 version few days ago.
As you may know, Scrcpy is a free open-source application that can mirror and control your Android screen on Linux, Windows, and MacOS Desktop either wirelessly or using USB cable.
It uses Android Debug Bridge (adb) to communicate with Android device. Nothing needs to be installed on Android, you only need to enable USB debugging mode (no security issue and performance lost).
