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Ubuntu Artwork Themes for Chrome & Vivaldi Browsers

Last updated: July 24, 2025 — 1 Comment

User of Chrome, Chromium, or Vivaldi? Here are Ubuntu artwork themes for your web browser!

Mauro Gaspari, the Ubuntu Team member has been working on creating Ubuntu artwork themes for Chrome and Vivaldi browsers since a year ago.

With the themes, you web browser will have an orange header bar, with Ubuntu wallpaper as background in empty tabs. While tab and inactive tab use Ubuntu colors from the Ubuntu color palette, and frame uses colors picked from the new tab background.

Chromium with Ubuntu Jammy theme

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Firefox 141.0 is Available with Less Memory Usage for Linux

Last updated: July 21, 2025 — Leave a comment

Firefox 141.0, a new monthly release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download!

The official release note, as usual, is not ready yet. While the official pre-build packages are out along with the source tarball.

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Krita 5.2.11 Released with Fixes & Removed Ubuntu 20.04 Support

Last updated: July 19, 2025 — Leave a comment

Krita, the free open-source KDE graphics editor, release new 5.2.10 few weeks ago, then 5.2.11 with quick fixes few days ago.

Since initial version that was released on 21 June 2005, Krita is now 20 years old. And, the new 5.2.11 release is perhaps the last bug-fixes, as the developer team is now focusing on the next Krita 5.3.0 feature release and Krita 6.0.0 for Qt6 port.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Wallpaper Contest Opened for Submission

Last updated: July 24, 2025 — Leave a comment

Wallpaper Contest for next Ubuntu 25.10, Questing Quokka, is opened. Submit or vote your favorite images!

Like the last contest, the submissions are separated into 3 categories: Mascot Theme, Digital / Abstract Art, and Photography. And top 2 voted images (6 images in total) in each category will be included in the 25.10 as optional wallpapers.

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Blender 4.5 Released as New LTS with Full Vulkan Support

Last updated: July 18, 2025 — Leave a comment

Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, released new 4.5 version few days ago!

The new Blender 4.5 is a long term support (LTS) release since v4.2 with 2 years of support, which features full Vulkan graphics API support!

Blender 4.5 Splash

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Audacious 4.5 Released with Playback History & LRCLIB Support

Last updated: July 18, 2025 — 2 Comments

After more than a month of beta testing, Audacious music player version 4.5 was finally released today!

The new release of this lightweight free open-source player features new plugin, new lyrics provider, and various other improvements. See what’s new & how to install for Ubuntu users.

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VS Code 1.102 Released! GA MCP Support & Open-Source Copilot Chat

Last updated: July 12, 2025 — Leave a comment

VS Code 1.102, the June release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Wednesday.

Since the release, Copilot Chat is finally open-sourced under the MIT license. And, the source code, is available at this github page.

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Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Reached End of Life Today

Last updated: July 10, 2025 — Leave a comment

Ubuntu 24.10, codename “Oracular Oriole”, has reached end of its life. Users are recommended to either upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 or install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Ubuntu 24.10 is the last Ubuntu version released in October 2024. It’s a short-term release with 9-month support cycle.

The developer team has announced the 24.10 end of life few weeks ago.
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KeePass 2.59 Released! KDB Import / Export & Windows 11 on ARM64

Last updated: July 10, 2025 — Leave a comment

KeePass, the popular lightweight password manager application, released new 2.59 version one day ago.

The new release of this free open-source app enhanced ARM64 CPU architecture type support, introduced code optimizations, performance improvements, and some bug-fixes.