Oracle VirtualBox, announced the first maintenance update for the 7.2 release series few days ago.
VirtualBox 7.2.2 fixed various crash issues and regressions in the major 7.2.0, it as well added some minor new features.
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Dash to Panel, the popular Gnome Shell extension, updated few days ago with support for GNOME desktop 49.
Meaning you can now install it on Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43, and Arch etc Linux distributions to combine the top-bar and dash into single highly customizable task-bar.
GNOME 49 with Dash to Panel, plus ArcMenu
Visual Studio Code 1.104, the August release of Microsoft’s code editor, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced Auto AI model selection support (Preview feature), allowing to automatically choose between Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-4.1 models, to get the optimal performance and reduce rate limits.
Warzone 2100, the free open-source 3D real-time strategy game, released new major 4.6.0 version few days ago.
This is a big release that features revamped options menu. The options menu now has a clean design with reorganized options, which as well introduced many new toggle options, such as show FPS / Unit Counts, Group Reporting, Radar Zoom, default AI and more.
SuperTuxKart, the 3D kart racing game, announced the second release candidate for the next 1.5 release few days ago.
Due to inner team disagreement, the release of version 1.5 was delayed. And, it explained the reason by announcing SuperTuxKart Evolution (the name of the next major release) few days ago.
The release candidate (RC) of GNOME Desktop 49 is out for testing purpose!
This is the final development release for GNOME 49, while the stable release is planned for September 17th. It added some new features, various bug-fixes, and improvements.
Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu LTS based Linux Distro, announced new 22.2 point release today.
Linux Mint 22.2, code-name “Zara”, is the second update for the 22 release series that’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 with support until 2029.
GIMP 3.1.4, the second development release for next major 3.2, was released few days ago!
The new release of this popular image editor introduced some exciting new features, including link layers, vector layers, MyPaint brushes version 2, and more.
For NVIDIA users with GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs (e.g., 4060, 4090), it finally supports Smooth Motion frame generation for better gaming performance in Linux.
NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a feature designed for games without native DLSS support. It uses AI to generate additional frames between two rendered frames for overall smoothness of game-play.
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Just Perfection, the popular tool to configure Gnome Shell behavior and UI elements, release new 35.0 version few days ago.
In case you don’t know about it, it’s an extension for GNOME desktop that provides a graphical interface to toggle visibility of the desktop elements, and change the common desktop behavior.
