COSMIC Epoch, the Linux desktop environment that’s default in Pop!_OS, released new 1.6.0 version today.
The new version added the wl-dmabuf-v6 Wayland protocol support improving compatibility with the latest Wayland GPU-buffer handling.
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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16, the eighth maintenance update for the 7.2 series, was released on Tuesday.
The new version of this virtualization software contains only some fixes and performance improvements.
Firefox 154.0, the August release of this popular open-source web browser, is available to download.
The new version of this browser added new setting option to choose a different Firefox icon. It’s however only available for Windows .exe installation so far, while the support for Linux, macOS, and MSIX installations is coming soon.
Linux 7.2, the new major kernel version, was released on Sunday! Linus Torvalds announced this kernel on lkml:
Well, this last week of the release was – once again – bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole “new normal” thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we’d probably never have a release at all.
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GNOME 51, the Linux desktop to be default in next Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, is now available for Beta testing!
The new version of this popular Linux Desktop environment introduced many exciting new features, various fixes, and other improvements.
Faugus, the open-source app launcher for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.1.0 version today.
This simple and lightweight UMU-Launcher based application added GOG games support in the past few weeks. With the new 2.1.0 version, it can now run Amazon games in your Linux Desktop.
The popular FFmpeg media library announced the first maintenance update for the 9.0 “Lei” release on Wednesday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS.
The new FFmpeg 9.0.1 brings a total of 83 fixes and improvements mainly for its libavcodec, libavfilter, and libavformat libraries.
QEMU, the open-source virtualizer and virtual machine monitor, released new 11.1.0 version one day ago.
The new version of this software introduced many new features support for ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V emulation, improved QMP/HMP monitoring support, and fixed various issues.
LocalSend, the popular AirDrop alternative application for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, released new 1.18.0 version.
The new version of this popular free open-source application added initial command line interface (CLI) support, allowing to send or receive files in terminal or server without graphical desktop environment.
Linux Mint 22.3, the popular Ubuntu 24.04 based Linux Distribution, got a Hardware Enablement update by releasing new 7.0 Kernel HEW ISO images.
The new update features Linux Kernel 7.0 provided by Ubuntu 24.04 (backported from Ubuntu 26.04), enabling new hardware support and better performance.
