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Python, the popular general purpose programming language, released new major 3.15 version yesterday.
The new version is the result of 17 months of development, that features many new typing features, interpreter, standard, and C API library improvements.
Opera, the popular Chromium based web browser, released new stable 137 version last night.
The new version of this multi-platform browser introduced some new features, including the long-requested per-window vertical tab state, and various bug-fixes.
Auto-cpufreq, the automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux, released new 3.2.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source software added configure option to enable/disable Intel HWP dynamic boost, improved monitoring support, and fixed various bugs.
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Scrcpy, the popular application for mirroring / controlling Android screen on your computer, released new 5.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source application finally added hardware decoding support, which uses your computer’s GPU to accelerate the video playback.
Darktable, the popular photography workflow and raw developer software, released new 5.6.2 version today.
The new version is a maintenance release that mainly includes bug fixes covering OpenCL support, crashes, and memory leaks.
Wine, the compatibility layer for running Windows apps / games in Linux, macOS & BSD, released new 11.19 development release today.
The new version of this free open-source software introduced some new features and fixed various bugs for many Windows games and apps.
The Document Foundation announced the first maintenance release for LibreOffice 26.8 yesterday.
The new version of this popular free open-source office suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS introduced a few dozens of bug-fixes, focusing on the compatibility for Microsoft OOXML file format.
Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, is now available for beta testing!
The Beta was released last night, one week behind the scheduled date. The Ubuntu Team announced:
The Ubuntu Release team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products.
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray”, continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
Audacity 4.0.1, the first maintenance update for the new major 4.0 series, was released yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source audio editor brings back some features missing from Audacity 3.x, and fixes various bugs.
Firefox 157.0, the new biweekly release of this popular web browser, is available to download.
The new version of this browser features the biggest redesign of its user interface in years. As you see in the screenshot, the window corner, tabs, address bar, input box, menus, and almost everything with borders are more rounded than before.
The left-sidebar is now more compact. Toolbar and side-bar icons now look bolder. The address bar border is now highlighted when in focus. And, the settings page now use purple color for highlighted items.
In addition, the version features new built-in themes with light and dark variants.
And, a new “Window density” section is added in Appearance settings page, allowing to change the spacing around window elements like toolbar, tabs, and sidebar between standard, compact, and touch fit to different screens or devices.
WebRTC video calls can now use your GPU for hardware accelerated AV1 decoding if supported, instead of always decoding AV1 video in software.
When pressing Tab keyboard key, it now moves focus straight to the text field of the address bar and search bar instead of stopping on the search engine button first.
And, the Firefox Suggest feature in the address bar is now available for users in more Countries including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Other changes in Firefox 157.0 include:
sidebar.revamp to false.at-rule() function for @supports.chain value for the CSS overscroll-behavior property.The official release note as well as the download link will be soon available in Firefox website via the link below:
If you can’t wait, then get it from this Mozilla web-page.
For Linux Distributions, it’s recommended to wait your distro update. Though, there are also Flatpak package and Ubuntu PPA (need to set prority) available for choices.
