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HandBrake video transcoder released new 1.9.1 version a few days ago. Here are the changes and native .deb packages for Ubuntu users.
The new HandBrake 1.9.1 contains primarily bug-fixes. It fixed FFV1 pixel format selection when an hardware decoder is used, causing incorrect bit depth output.
GNOME 48, the Linux desktop environment that will be default for Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Workstation, now is in Beta stage.
The release team announced it just a few hours ago in GNOME Discourse, along with an installer image for testing and porting extensions.
GNOME added experimental HDR support since version 44. It’s a technology allowing to transmit high dynamic range videos and images to compatible displays. In GNOME 48, GCC (GNOME Control Center) finally has a toggle option in the Display setting page to turn on/off this feature.
TLP, the laptop battery power saving tool, released new 1.8.0 version few days ago!
The new release add battery charge threshold support for new laptops, including Chromebooks, DELL, and Framework laptops.
With Linux Kernel 6.12 or later, TLP 1.8.0 finally supports for setting start and stop battery charge threshold for DELL laptops.
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After 6 months of development, Go language announced new 1.24 release few days ago on Tuesday.
Go 1.24 now fully supports generic type aliases. Type aliases, a concept introduced in Go 1.9, allows to create a new name for an existing type without creating a new type. Previously, it didn’t support type parameters. But this changed in Go 1.24. See more about generic type aliases.
Darktable, the popular free open-source photography software and RAW developer, released new 5.0.1 version one day ago.
This is a maintenance release that includes various bug-fixes, some performance improvements, and updates camera devices and profiles support.
GIMP image editor announced the third release candidate for the next major 3.0 series yesterday, with dozens of bug-fixes, requests, and translation updates.
The new release fixed crash and stability issues when working on Wayland. The new GIMP running with most recent GTK 3.24.48 fixed freeze with certain actions on KDE/Wayland, and crash when dragging layers and text glitches in certain widgets with Right-To-Left languages.
KDE Plasma announced new major 6.3 release today. See what’s new in the release of this popular Linux Desktop Environment.
First, the new Plasma 6.3 introduced “Clone Panel” option in panel configuration dialog, allowing to quickly make a copy of current panel with same settings and applets, and place in one of other 3 screen edges.
Plasma 6.3 Clone Panel
After almost a month of development, Kdenlive video editor released a new version with another dozen of bug-fixes.
It’s Kdenlive 24.12.2, the second maintenance release of the 24.12 series. As usual, the official announcement is not ready yet. But the source tarball is out and KDE has announced it as one in the KDE Gear 2024.2.
Kdenlive 24.12 in Ubuntu
Visual Studio Code announce new monthly 1.97 release! Here are new features in the IDE release.
VS Code 1.97 is the first release in 2025. It added two more models OpenAI’s o3-mini and Gemini 2.0 Flash to choose from when using Copilot.
It introduced new Copilot Next Edit Suggestions (Copilot NES) preview feature to help with edits. Which, can both predicts the location of the next edit you’ll want to make and what that edit should be.
OnlyOffice announced the new 8.3 release for its offline Desktop Editor apps yesterday.
The new release now is able to open and view files created in Apple iWork’s Pages, Keynote and Numbers, as well as Hancom Office’s .hwp and .hwpx file formats. However, for editing support they need to be converted to OOXML first, i.e. DOCX for text documents, XLSX for spreadsheets and PPTX for presentations.
