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For users of Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole, the upgrade channel to the latest Ubuntu 25.04 reopened after fixed some critical bugs.
Ubuntu 25.04, code-name Plucky Puffin, was released in last month as the latest short term Ubuntu release. The upgrade channel opened just after the release date. It however had some critical issues.
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Due to GTK4 port, GNOME introduced some new core apps to replace the old ones. They include Loupe Image Viewer, Gnome Console, Gnome Camera, Decibels Audio Player, Gnome Text Editor.
Now, the developer team is going to replace the default video editor Totem with Showtime in the next 49 desktop release.
Shotcut, the free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor, released new version 25.05 few days ago.
The new release of this cross-platform video editor introduced new Alpha Strobe video filter, allowing to make something blink by periodically holding frames or setting alpha channel to zero.
The cross-platform free open source motor-sport simulator, Speed Dreams, released new 2.4.1 version a few days ago.
Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous Open Racing Car Simulator TORCS, and it features high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine. The last 2.4.0 release introduced a in-game download manager, allowing to easily fetch new cars and tracks from a configurable repositories.
Visual Studio Code 1.100, the April 2025 release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released one day ago on May 8.
The new version now uses GPT-4.1 as the default base model in AI chat, though it’s a progressive roll-out feature that may not yet be available to all users.
It implemented support for OpenAI’s apply patch editing format (GPT 4.1 and o4-mini) and Anthropic’s replace string tool (Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 3.5), that results significantly faster edits, especially in large files.
The developer team started the development of Ubuntu 25.10 in last week. Now the release schedule and daily build live CD image are out!
Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is the next Ubuntu version planned to be released on October 09. It’s a short term release with 9-month support circle.
If everything goes well, it will feature GNOME 49 desktop and the latest Linux Kernel (probably v6.17 according to Kernel release interval).
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After 2 alpha and 1 beta releases, BleachBit system cleaner finally released the new major 5.0.0 version few days ago.
Compare to the last stable v4.6.2, the new release of this free open-source disk space cleaner added ability to clean caches for more applications, fixed various bugs, and improved stability significantly.
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Upscaler, the free open-source AI image upscaling application, released new 1.5.0 version (then v1.5.1 with quick update) in last week.
The new released added sequential image processing support. Meaning user can now open multiple images at once, then let the app enhance them one by one.
Mission Center, the popular free open-source system monitoring and task managing app for Linux Desktop, release new 1.0.0 version few days ago.
Like Resources, it’s a modern GTK4 tool to monitor CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage and Network devices, while being able to manage running apps, processes, as well as background services.
The 1.21.0 release of the popular free open-source RetroArch game emulator frontend is available to download!
The new RetroArch release introduced 2 new camera drivers to use. Previously, it uses V4L2 (Video for Linux 2) the kernel-level framework to interact with cameras. Now, user can choose to use ffmpeg multimedia framework with high-level functionalities, such as format conversion, filtering, and transcoding, or use pipewire for minimal latency.
