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SuperTuxKart, the free open-source arcade racing game, announced the release candidate for the next 1.5 release few days ago.
It’s been more than half a year since the last Beta release. And, the new RC release includes primarily bug-fixes and minor new features.
Linux Kernel released new 6.15 version yesterday. Linus Torvalds announced:
So this was delayed by a couple of hours because of a last-minute bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the eleventh hour, but 6.15 is out there now.
Apart from that final scramble, things looked pretty normal last week. Various random small fixes all over, with drivers as usual accounting for most of it. But we’ve got some bcachefs fixes, some core networking, and some mm fixes in there too. Nothing looks particularly scary.
The new 139.0 release of Firefox web browser is finally available to download after 10 beta testing releases.
The official release note for this version is not ready at the moment of writing. According to its Github releases page, it includes some exciting new features.
Terminator, the popular free open-source terminal emulator, release new 2.1.5 version yesterday.
Terminator terminal emulator is written in Python and uses GTK-3 for its user interface. It’s promoted as Multiple GNOME terminals in one window!
After 3 months of development, Apache NetBeans announced the new 26 release today.
The new release updated its UI with better HiDPI support. It now displays the dragged tab image and ensures to render SVG icons at full resolution on HiDPI screens. And, there are 150 more icons updated from GIF/PNG to SVG to look good on HiDPI/Retina screens.
apt, the default command line package manager for Debian and Ubuntu based Linux Distributions, released new version 3.1.0 on Monday.
As you may know, apt 3.0 introduced new package dependency resolver with more efficient and clean output. Now, the resolver 3 is enabled by default in the new 3.1 release.
For those who need to compare files, folders, and version controlled projects regularly, Debian and Ubuntu are adding back the nautilus-compare extension for GNOME Files (aka Nautilus) in default repositories for current development releases.
nautilus-compare is a Nautilus extension that adds “compare” option to right-click menu of selected files/folders, allowing to quickly launch Meld tool, and view, edit, and merge the differences graphically.
GIMP 3.0.4, the second update for the major 3.0 release series of this popular image editor, is out!
The official release note is not ready at the moment of writing, though it should be available in next few days. According to the NEWS file in source code, GIMP 3.0.4 features bug-fixes, tools/plug-ins updates, and various improvements.
For users of Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole, the upgrade channel to the latest Ubuntu 25.04 reopened after fixed some critical bugs.
Ubuntu 25.04, code-name Plucky Puffin, was released in last month as the latest short term Ubuntu release. The upgrade channel opened just after the release date. It however had some critical issues.
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Due to GTK4 port, GNOME introduced some new core apps to replace the old ones. They include Loupe Image Viewer, Gnome Console, Gnome Camera, Decibels Audio Player, Gnome Text Editor.
Now, the developer team is going to replace the default video editor Totem with Showtime in the next 49 desktop release.
