BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, released new 4.9.2 development version few days ago.
After 2 alpha releases, BleachBit 4.9.2 is marked as Beta and final release before the next major 5.0.0.
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Rufus, the popular free open-source app to create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs, released new 4.7 version last night with new features.
Rufus, stands for The Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source, is a Windows only app originally designed to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. But, it now supports a variety of bootable .iso files, including various Linux Distributions, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and more.
Resources, the free open-source system monitor and task manager app for Linux desktop, released new 1.8.0 version recently with new features.
Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor app written in Rust. It uses GTK 4 for its modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME Desktop, and Libadwaita for an adaptive interface that works great in different screen sizes.
Celluloid, the GTK4 front-end of MPV media player, released new 0.28 version few days ago.
Celluloid is a free open-source media player uses MPV as backend. It features GTK4 and Libadwaita for its modern and adaptive GUI that’s well integrated in GNOME desktop.
The March 2025 release of Visual Studio Code, aka 1.99, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced chat agent mode for VS Code Stable, which can be enabled by setting chat.agent.enabled.
With chat agent mode in Visual Studio Code, you can use natural language define a high-level task and to start an agentic code editing session to accomplish that task.
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For LibreOffice users who are sticking to the native .deb packages, the Ubuntu packaging team finally made the packages through PPA.
LibreOffice 25.2 was released 2 months ago with custom theme support, automatic sign document in “Save as” dialog, import/export connections.xml in OOXML, read and write support for ODF 1.4, and many other new features. See HERE for more.
GNU Octave, the free open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, rolled out the new 10.1.0 release.
The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. Though, the source tarball was made available to download since last week. And, I’ve made the package into PPA for all current Ubuntu releases.
Inkscape 1.4.2, the free open-source vector graphics editor, is out with new features and many bug-fixes.
The new v1.4.2 is the first minor release in the 1.4 release series, as v1.4.1 has been merged with 1.4.2 due to a signficant bug.
A new monthly release of Mozilla Firefox web browser is out. It’s Firefox 137.0!
The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. But according to the Github release notes page, Firefox 137.0 introduced new experimental tab group feature, allowing to group open tabs together with unique name, color code, which are always saved and can be closed then reopen later.
Shotcut, the free open-source non-linear video editor, released new 25.03 few days ago with enhancements.
The new release of this cross-platform MLT based video editor introduced some new features and fixed various bugs. First, it now displays the video mode in window title-bar, including the video resolution, FPS, and audio channel info.
