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gThumb, the free open-source image viewer and organizer, is finally porting to GTK4 plus LibAdwaita.
With version 4.0 alpha, the user interface has been rewritten in Vala that looks modern and native in recent GNOME based distros, such as Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation.
BleachBit, the free open-source system cleaner application, released new 6.0.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this CCleaner alternative app for Linux and Windows is the biggest version in years.
Ubuntu 26.04, code-name Resolute Raccoon, was released after 6 months of development. Here are the changes since the last Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Ubuntu 26.04 is a new Long Term Support (LTS) release with 5 years of standard support, another 5 years expanded security maintenance, and 5 years more legacy addon for paid users. Meaning a total of 15 years support for paid users.
Oracle announced the new maintenance release for VirtualBox 7.2 release series yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source virtualization software added the recent Kernels support and fixed various issues.
Firefox 150.0, the new monthly release, is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS users.
The new version of this popular web browser added official .rpm package, allowing to easily install the browser in RHEL, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and other RPM-based distributions according to the github release page.
LXQt, the lightweight Qt-based Linux desktop environment, released new 2.4.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source desktop improved Wayland, multi-monitors, and sandboxed apps support, and fixed many issues.
Parabolic, the popular application for downloading web video and audio, released new 2026.4.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source yt-dlp front-end finally added macOS support, by introducing new macOS app built using the GNOME (GTK/libadwaita) version of Parabolic, with yt-dlp, deno, ffmpeg and other Parabolic dependencies in bundle.
GIMP 3.2.4, the second maintenance update of the 3.2 major release series, was released yesterday.
The new version of this popular GTK-3 based image editor continued improving UI/UX experiences, fixed various issues, and added new function for plugin developers.
Pods, the graphical front-end for Podman, released version 3.0.0 in last week.
The new version of this free open-source Gnome application implemented a new backend architecture to support multiple container engines.
KDE announced the release of KDE Gear 26.04 on Thursday, including Kdenlive 26.04 the popular video editor.
The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor introduced many exciting new features.
