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Microsoft announced .NET 10, the free open-source cross-platform developer platform, a day ago!
The new .NET 10 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release that features three years support until November 10, 2028. Users are argued to upgrade to the new version to take advantage of the extended support, performance improvements and new features!
Mission Center, the popular Linux system monitor and task manager app, released new 1.1.0 version today.
The new release of this free open-source app improved CPU monitoring support. It can now display the amount of electrical energy that CPU consumes in watts.
It works by reading /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/energy_uj for CPU power draw. The file is however unreadable by default for security reason. Meaning user needs to grant read access permission by running the command below in terminal:
sudo chmod a+r /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/energy_uj
After 9 Beta releases, Mozilla Firefox 145.0 is finally available to download.
The new browser version introduced new phase of privacy protections. For Private Browsing or when using Enhanced Tracking Protection set to Strict, the amount of Firefox users track-able by fingerprinters is reduced by half. See this page for more details.
In addition, Enhanced Bounce Tracking Protection stateless mode is now enabled by default in ETP Strict, blocking more advanced tracking techniques based on redirection.
Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu and Debian based Linux Distribution, is going to add new system administration, information tools, and redesigned application menu in next release.
As you may know, Linux Mint has an official blog that updates monthly with news about the development process. In recent updates, it introduced some exciting new features that will include in next Linux Mint 22.3.
LXQt, the lightweight Qt based desktop environment, released new version 2.3.0 few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source Linux desktop continued improving Wayland support. The Desktop Switcher panel applet now works on Labwc, niri, and Wayfire Wayland compositors that support ext-workspaces-v1 protocol.
NVIDIA 580.105.08, a new point release for the latest production branch driver for Linux, was released yesterday.
This is the 5th release in the NVIDIA 580 series. It introduced a new environment variable and fixed various bugs.
KeePass Password Safe released new 2.60 version few days ago. Here are the new features and PPA update for Ubuntu users.
The new release of this free open-source password manager application added support importing .csv passwords exported from Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Ubuntu team announced the release schedule for next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS few days ago!
Ubuntu 26.04, code-name Resolute Raccoon, is the next Long Term Support (LTS) release that will have 5-year standard support until 2031 and another 5 year Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) support via Ubuntu Pro.
After 2 months of development, the Shotcut video editor released new 25.10 version yesterday.
The new release of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor introduced new option to generate image or video from HTML, Text to Speech, and some other exciting new features.
For MATE users, Debian and Ubuntu are finally migrating this desktop environment to version 1.28 for Debian Testing (Forky) and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2, is a popular lightweight desktop environment for Linux. The latest version is MATE 1.28 which was released more than a year and a half ago in February 2024.
