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Faugus, the open-source app launcher for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.1.0 version today.
This simple and lightweight UMU-Launcher based application added GOG games support in the past few weeks. With the new 2.1.0 version, it can now run Amazon games in your Linux Desktop.
The popular FFmpeg media library announced the first maintenance update for the 9.0 “Lei” release on Wednesday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS.
The new FFmpeg 9.0.1 brings a total of 83 fixes and improvements mainly for its libavcodec, libavfilter, and libavformat libraries.
QEMU, the open-source virtualizer and virtual machine monitor, released new 11.1.0 version one day ago.
The new version of this software introduced many new features support for ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V emulation, improved QMP/HMP monitoring support, and fixed various issues.
LocalSend, the popular AirDrop alternative application for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, released new 1.18.0 version.
The new version of this popular free open-source application added initial command line interface (CLI) support, allowing to send or receive files in terminal or server without graphical desktop environment.
Linux Mint 22.3, the popular Ubuntu 24.04 based Linux Distribution, got a Hardware Enablement update by releasing new 7.0 Kernel HEW ISO images.
The new update features Linux Kernel 7.0 provided by Ubuntu 24.04 (backported from Ubuntu 26.04), enabling new hardware support and better performance.
The wallpaper competition for Ubuntu 26.10, Stonking Stingray, is now open for submission! Top TWO of the 3 categories will be included in the .iso images.
Everyone can participate, by either submitting an image taken from a camera or made by digital creative tools, or just voting your favorite ones!
And, you can get cool wallpaper images there that are free for both personal and commercial use.
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.
