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Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3, the third monthly development release for the next LTS, is out!
The developer team announced this version last night:
I’d like to announce the third successful publication of the monthly snapshot – Resolute Snapshot 3 (but also the first of 2026!). You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com, for instance …
NVIDIA VA-API Driver, the VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as backend, released new 0.0.15 version yesterday.
For those who don’t know about it, it’s a free open-source API for NVIDIA users to enable hardware accelerated video decoding support when using Firefox web browser.
Transmission Bittorrent client finally released new major 4.1.0 version yesterday! Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.10.
The new version is made available after more than a year of development. It fixed the significantly degraded transfer performance in 4.0.x series by changed the uTP ack scheduling algorithm. And, the developer claimed that the download speed in his case went up from 70 MB/s to 90 MB/s.
After almost of 2 weeks beta-1 testing, the second beta of KDE Plasma 6.6 is out before the final release planned for 17th February 2026.
Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 contains mostly bug-fixes, stability and user experience improvements, along with few minor new features.
Ptyxis, the free open-source container-oriented terminal emulator, released new 49.3 version few days ago.
As you may know, Ptyxis is a GTK4 terminal emulator that’s default in Ubuntu since 25.10. It features first-class container integration with automatic discovery, direct spawning, and context preservation support for Podman, Toolbox, Distrobox, and JHBuild.
Notepad Next, the free open-source Notepad++ re-implementation with native Linux, Windows, and macOS support, released new 0.13 version few days ago.
In case you don’t know about the app, it’s a Qt6-based text editor that replicates the Notepad++ functionality and user interface with cross-platform support.
GIMP, the popular GTK-based image editor, released version 3.0.8 last night.
The new version of this free open-source image editor might be the final release in the 3.0 series. It primarily includes bug-fixes and performance improvements, while there are also some minor new features.
Fastfetch, the neofetch like system information tool, updated recently with many new features.
For those who don’t know about the app, it is a free open-source command line tool that can fetch and display system information for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc operating systems.
Looking for an infinite whiteboard tool for Linux Desktop? KDE has one that’s in development!
It’s Drawy, a free open-source C++ written application that aims to be a native-desktop alternative to the amazing web-based Excalidraw.
Easy Effects, the popular audio equalizer and effects application for Linux desktop, released new 8.1.0 version few days ago.
The new version of this free open-source software added new plugin for input/output effects, fixed some bugs, and introduced some other features.
