News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Darktable, the popular free open-source photography and RAW developer, released new 5.0.0 version yesterday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.
Darktable 5.0.0 is a new major feature release. It now shows a splash screen at startup, including app loading process bar, which is useful for the user who has a large library. For choice, it can be disabled in the Preferences dialog, under miscellaneous tab.
Darktable startup splash screen
Kdenlive, the popular Qt-based free open-source video editor, released new 24.12 version a few days ago.
The new release package was made available on December 14. KDE.org announced it within KDE Gear 24.12, though there’s still no official release note in kdenlive website at the moment of writing.
Flowblade, free open-source non-linear video editor, announced new 2.18 feature release today!
The new release introduced Credits Scroll Generator, allowing to add animated texts with scrolling or paging effects, like the list of names involved in making a film or TV show. And, text presentation and layout changes are controlled using a bit of MarkDown inspired markup.
qBittorrent, the popular free open-source Qt based BitTorrent client, released version 5.0.3 along with 5.1.0 Beta one day ago on Tuesday.
Changlog for the new 5.1.0 Beta so far is not available. But for version 5.0.3, it’s a maintenance release that includes primarily bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates.
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Linux world got some big updates, such as XFCE 4.20, RHEL 10.0 Beta, and Linux Mint 22.1 Beta, in last days. While, many free open-source apps also released updates recently you may care about.
And, here I’m going to introduce some of them for you. They include Audacity 3.7.1, GNU Octave 9.3.0, Scrcpy 3.1, VS Code 1.96, and TeXstudio 4.8.5.
XFCE, the popular GTK based Linux Desktop environment, announced new 4.20 release yesterday on Sunday!
It’s a new major release with the effort of almost 2 years of development, features include initial Wayland support, revamped Thunar file manager, power profiles daemon, and more!
Transmission, the popular free open-source BitTorrent client, announced the Beta release of next 4.1.0 version today!
The new release features optional sequential downloading support. Which, is useful when you want to watch large videos/movies while they are being downloaded.
However, I don’t find a graphical option to do the job, but only command line option -seq or --sequential-download for transmission-cli.
Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu based Linux Distribution, announced the beta release of 22.1 today!
The new Linux Mint 22.1, code-name Xia, is based on Ubuntu 24.04 with long term support until 2029!
It features Cinnamon Desktop 6.4, that includes new default theme with rounder design and flat style buttons.
Following GNOME and Plasma 6’s design, the start menu, indicator applets, and panel context menus in Linux Mint 22.1 are now rounder and floating away from the bottom panel, which looks more modern.
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Scrcpy, the popular free open-source Android screen mirroring and controlling app, released version 3.0 then 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 with quick fixes few days ago.
Besides mirroring Android screen on your computer desktop, the new release can now start a virtual Android display on your desktop.
OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming and screen recording software, announced new major 31.0.0 release today!
The new release introduced native blur filter and background blur for NVIDIA GPUs, based on NVIDIA Video Effects (NVIDIA Broadcast). Meaning you need RTX 20, RTX 30, or RTX 40 series graphics card, and GPU drivers 551.76 (Windows) / 550.54.14 (Linux) or newer.
