Author: Erik peterson

Wayland-Protocols 1.49 release

The wayland-protocols 1.49 package has been released. It contains a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide capabilities needed for building composite servers and user environments. The new version includes: The experimental xx-fractional-scale protocol, which provides the ability to scale the logical coordinate system, in which values ​​are specified as integers, to improve positioning accuracy and increase the resolution of logical coordinates to individual […]

OpenCV 5.0.0

OpenCV 5.0.0, a major release of the open-source computer vision and image processing library, has been published. The release took place on June 6, 2026, and is already marked as current in the project's GitHub repository. OpenCV is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license. The release marks OpenCV's transition from a "classic computer vision library" to a more modern platform for CV/AI tasks: the project has cleaned up the old API, reworked […]

development Plans Ubuntu desktop 26.10

Jean-Baptiste Lallement, Director of Engineering at Canonical, has published plans for the development of desktop environment functionality, which are intended to be implemented in the fall release. Ubuntu October 26.10. Four key areas of work are highlighted: Development of the GNOME-based environment. Updating the desktop environment to the release of GNOME 51, scheduled for September 16. Migrating from dbus-daemon to dbus-broker in […]

OutWiker 4.0 note-taking software released

Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version, OutWiker 4.0, a note-taking program, has been released. The program's unique feature is that notes are stored as directories containing text files. Any number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows you to write notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, and Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Also […]

XLibre 25.1.6

To coincide with the first anniversary celebration, a new version 25.1.6 of the X.org graphics server fork, XLibre, was released. Support for seatd, a daemon providing universal access to input/output devices that does not require superuser privileges or systemd, has been added. Support for the proprietary Nvidia driver has been improved: Support for version 570 has been improved, eliminating the need for additional Xserver configuration to work with this version. Optional support has been added […]

Prometheus JMX Exporter 1.6.0

Prometheus JMX Exporter 1.6.0 has been released—a release of an exporter designed to collect JMX MBean values ​​from Java applications and output them as Prometheus metrics. When configured appropriately, JMX Exporter can also send data via OpenTelemetry. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. JMX Exporter can be run in several modes: as a Java agent within the target JVM, as a standalone exporter for […]

OutWicker 4.0

Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version (beta versions are released almost monthly), a new stable version of the note-taking program, OutWiker 4.0, has been released. The program's unique feature is that notes are stored as directories containing text files. Any number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows you to write notes using various notations: HTML, […]

Stable release of XLibre XServer 25.1, a fork of X.Org Server

Exactly one year after the founding of the X.Org Server fork, XLibre 25.1.6 was released. This release marks the transition of the 25.1 branch to stable (previous updates were beta-quality and intended for testing). XLibre is the default version in Artix distributions. Linux, GhostBSD, OpenMandriva, and Vendefoul Wolf. For Arch Linux, Debian, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GNU Guix, […]

Enthusiasts are developing Opengram, a server for the Telegram protocol.

A community of enthusiasts is developing Opengram, an open-source implementation of the server side of the Telegram messenger. The project is a standalone server implementing the MTProto protocol (supporting layers up to 216), which can be used to replace the official Telegram server infrastructure when deployed on your own hardware. Official Telegram clients (Telegram Desktop, mobile apps) are supported after updating their data center address and the server's public RSA key. […]

GNOME File Previewer switches to GTK4, and GJS improves TypeScript support.

The GNOME Project published its weekly report, highlighting the porting of the File Previewer (sushi), GNOME's file preview application, to the GTK4 library, the libadwaita UI components, the Glycin sandboxed image loading backend, and the Blueprint UI language. File Previewer also supports dark theme and floating toolbars, and its code has been modernized to utilize modules […]

GNOME 51 removes support for NVIDIA EGLStreams

Mutter, the window manager and Wayland compositor for GNOME Shell, has removed the legacy NVIDIA EGLStreams/EGLDevice support. This change was pushed to the Mutter mainline on June 5th and is intended for the upcoming GNOME 51 release. This marks the removal of the legacy Wayland support technology for NVIDIA's proprietary driver, which predates NVIDIA's move to the mainstream GBM/DMA-BUF/KMS stack. EGLStreams […]

Ardor 9.7

Ardour 9.7, a free digital audio workstation for recording, mixing, and mastering audio, has been released. Released on June 5, 2026, it was billed as a bugfix, but along with the fixes, it brought several notable improvements to the interface and MIDI editing. Version 9.6 was again skipped due to last-minute issues. Ardour is licensed under the GPLv2. The main change […]

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