Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.4 version yesterday.
This is a maintenance release for current 1.6 stable release series. It features only some bug-fixes and few minor new features.
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NVIDIA announced the first release of its 575 driver series for Linux few days ago.
It’s NVIDIA 575.51.02, a Beta driver, that features NVIDIA Smooth Motion support for GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, which is also coming to RTX 40 series.
Kdenlive, the popular free open-source KDE video editor, released new 25.04.0 version few days ago.
The new Kdenlive 25.04.0 can now import and export projects using the OpenTimelineIO format. Meaning, it can now import and export projects from/to other video editors that support this format.
Ubuntu 25.04, code-name Plucky Puffin, was officially released today!
Ubuntu 25.04 is a short term release with 9-month support until Jan 2026. It features Linux Kernel 6.14, GNOME 48 desktop, updated toolkits and applications.
Ubuntu 25.04 Desktop
Oracle VirtualBox announced new 7.1.8 maintenance release on Tuesday with bug-fixes and support for recent Linux Kernels.
VirtualBox improved the Linux Guest screen flickering issue in the past few releases, the new 7.1.8 continued fixing the screen display issue on certain conditions, and finally marked that the heavy screen flickering on Ubuntu Guest with Wayland as fixed!
screen tearing and flickering issue finally closed
BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, released new 4.9.2 development version few days ago.
After 2 alpha releases, BleachBit 4.9.2 is marked as Beta and final release before the next major 5.0.0.
Rufus, the popular free open-source app to create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs, released new 4.7 version last night with new features.
Rufus, stands for The Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source, is a Windows only app originally designed to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. But, it now supports a variety of bootable .iso files, including various Linux Distributions, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and more.
Resources, the free open-source system monitor and task manager app for Linux desktop, released new 1.8.0 version recently with new features.
Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor app written in Rust. It uses GTK 4 for its modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME Desktop, and Libadwaita for an adaptive interface that works great in different screen sizes.
Celluloid, the GTK4 front-end of MPV media player, released new 0.28 version few days ago.
Celluloid is a free open-source media player uses MPV as backend. It features GTK4 and Libadwaita for its modern and adaptive GUI that’s well integrated in GNOME desktop.
The March 2025 release of Visual Studio Code, aka 1.99, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced chat agent mode for VS Code Stable, which can be enabled by setting chat.agent.enabled.
With chat agent mode in Visual Studio Code, you can use natural language define a high-level task and to start an agentic code editing session to accomplish that task.
image from visualstudio.com
