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qBittorrent, the popular free open-source Qt based BitTorrent client, released version 5.0.3 along with 5.1.0 Beta one day ago on Tuesday.
Changlog for the new 5.1.0 Beta so far is not available. But for version 5.0.3, it’s a maintenance release that includes primarily bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates.
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Linux world got some big updates, such as XFCE 4.20, RHEL 10.0 Beta, and Linux Mint 22.1 Beta, in last days. While, many free open-source apps also released updates recently you may care about.
And, here I’m going to introduce some of them for you. They include Audacity 3.7.1, GNU Octave 9.3.0, Scrcpy 3.1, VS Code 1.96, and TeXstudio 4.8.5.
XFCE, the popular GTK based Linux Desktop environment, announced new 4.20 release yesterday on Sunday!
It’s a new major release with the effort of almost 2 years of development, features include initial Wayland support, revamped Thunar file manager, power profiles daemon, and more!
Transmission, the popular free open-source BitTorrent client, announced the Beta release of next 4.1.0 version today!
The new release features optional sequential downloading support. Which, is useful when you want to watch large videos/movies while they are being downloaded.
However, I don’t find a graphical option to do the job, but only command line option -seq or --sequential-download for transmission-cli.
Scrcpy, the popular free open-source Android screen mirroring and controlling app, released version 3.0 then 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 with quick fixes few days ago.
Besides mirroring Android screen on your computer desktop, the new release can now start a virtual Android display on your desktop.
OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming and screen recording software, announced new major 31.0.0 release today!
The new release introduced native blur filter and background blur for NVIDIA GPUs, based on NVIDIA Video Effects (NVIDIA Broadcast). Meaning you need RTX 20, RTX 30, or RTX 40 series graphics card, and GPU drivers 551.76 (Windows) / 550.54.14 (Linux) or newer.
NVIDIA announced the first stable release of the new 565 series Linux driver this Sunday!
The new NVIDIA 565.77 driver is marked as the latest new feature branch version for Linux users. The release introduced some new features and various bug-fixes.
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HandBrake video transcoder announced new 1.9.0 release few days ago. Here’s new features and native .deb package for Ubuntu users.
The new HandBrake 1.9.0 added Intel QSV VVC hardware video decoding support, and an option to enable AV1 screen content coding(SCC) on Intel Lunar Lake QSV AV1 encoder.
It also added support for lossless VP9 encoding, meaning it can convert videos to VP9 codec while keeping 100% original quality.
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Dolphin, the popular free open-source GameCube and Wii emulator, released new 2412 version today!
The game emulator supported Linux previously through an official Ubuntu PPA, however discontinued! In the new release, it added back official Linux support through Flatpak package, which works in most Linux distributions, through runs in sandbox.
GDM Settings, the graphical configuration tool for GNOME Login Screen, released version 5.0 hours ago with new features!
GDM Settings (Gnome Display Manager Settings) is a free open-source tool that provides graphical options to configure background, themes, fonts, etc for login screen in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation and other Linux with GNOME Desktop.
The application just released 5.0 version today. Here are the new features and how to install guide in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10!
