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After 2 alpha and 1 beta releases, BleachBit system cleaner finally released the new major 5.0.0 version few days ago.
Compare to the last stable v4.6.2, the new release of this free open-source disk space cleaner added ability to clean caches for more applications, fixed various bugs, and improved stability significantly.
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Upscaler, the free open-source AI image upscaling application, released new 1.5.0 version (then v1.5.1 with quick update) in last week.
The new released added sequential image processing support. Meaning user can now open multiple images at once, then let the app enhance them one by one.
Mission Center, the popular free open-source system monitoring and task managing app for Linux Desktop, release new 1.0.0 version few days ago.
Like Resources, it’s a modern GTK4 tool to monitor CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage and Network devices, while being able to manage running apps, processes, as well as background services.
The 1.21.0 release of the popular free open-source RetroArch game emulator frontend is available to download!
The new RetroArch release introduced 2 new camera drivers to use. Previously, it uses V4L2 (Video for Linux 2) the kernel-level framework to interact with cameras. Now, user can choose to use ffmpeg multimedia framework with high-level functionalities, such as format conversion, filtering, and transcoding, or use pipewire for minimal latency.
Mozilla Firefox 138.0 is available to download today after 9 beta releases. Here are the new features in this monthly release.
The Firefox 138.0 announcement is not ready at the moment of writing, though the download link is out. According to the Github releases page, the new Firefox release enhanced profile management support.
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qBittorrent, the free open-source Qt-based BitTorrent client, announced new major 5.1.0 release on this Sunday.
The new release added a feature that was requested almost 9 years ago. It’s the ability to drag’n’drop items from torrent content widget into another applications, e.g., VLC for video playback.
Mixxx, the free open-source DJ software, released new 2.5.1 version one day ago.
Although this is a first minor update for the 2.5 branch, it includes new features such as mapping support for several new MIDI controllers. They include:
Auto-CPUFreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer, released version 2.6.0 with some new features and many bug-fixes.
For those who don’t know about auto-cpufreq, it is a free open-source Linux app, which can monitor and automatically manage CPU speed according to battery state, CPU usage, temperature, and system load.
For Ubuntu 24.10 users who are going to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 25.04, the upgrade channel was temporarily suspended due to bugs!
Ubuntu 25.04, code-name Plucky Puffin, is the latest Ubuntu version that was officially released in last week! As Ubuntu 24.10 has only 3 months support, it’s usually recommended to upgrade to the newer Ubuntu 25.04.
UPDATE: All bugs have been fixed! And, the upgrade channel re-opened.
This time, however, it’s better to wait for a few days until the developer team fixed the issues!
Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.4 version yesterday.
This is a maintenance release for current 1.6 stable release series. It features only some bug-fixes and few minor new features.
