System76, the manufacturer of Linux computers and creator of the COSMIC desktop environment, has updated the COSMIC Alpha version to Alpha 2. The latest version includes more settings pages, an expanded set of features for COSMIC Files, and sought-after window management functions. Significant work has been done on the infrastructure to support screen reading, and several notable bugs have been fixed. The new desktop environment […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.16.0, based on Kubernetes, has been announced. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for managed services. Cozystack allows running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
On September 27, the Document Foundation announced that the second bug-fix update for LibreOffice 24.8 includes fixes for over eighty bugs, crashes, and regressions. LibreOffice is a free office suite continuing the development of OpenOffice.org, comprising a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet application (Calc), a presentation editor (Impress), and a database (Base). Compared to OOo, support for Microsoft formats has been improved […]
On September 26, three months after the release of 4.4.0 (which by default transitioned to Qt 6 and GTK 4, added the Background Music plugin, returned the Lyrics plugin for displaying song lyrics in the GTK interface, added support for the Disc Number tag, and the linear volume scale PipeWire), a bug-fix release of the Audacious music player version 4.4.1 was made, continuing the development of XMMS […]
Last week, the nicotine-plus update took place, a GUI client for the peer-to-peer Soulseek network (official website, Wikipedia), designed for music sharing via user uploads. The goal of the project is to create a free, lightweight, and functional alternative to the official proprietary Soulseek client, which is written in Qt. The nicotine-plus development uses the Python3 programming language and GTK graphical toolkit. The application includes an interface for managing download progress and […]
The stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings has been published — NetworkManager 1.50.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, and others) are developed through their own development cycles. Key innovations in NetworkManager 1.50: The support for the 'dhclient' utility has been deprecated and disabled at the build stage, with the built-in DHCP client recommended instead, which has been default since NetworkManager 1.20 […]
On September 30, the Ladybird browser outperformed the Servo engine in the number of successfully passed tests from the web-platform-tests suite, which determines compatibility with the reference web platform. In particular, Servo successfully passes 1,303,211 checks, Ladybird — 1,518,672, Firefox 131 — 1,805,845, Safari 204dev — 1,812,433, Chromium 131 — 1,862,747. The web-platform-tests are formulated within the Interop initiative, jointly promoted by Google, Mozilla, Apple, […]
The release of the main branch of nginx 1.27.2 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The parallelly maintained stable branch 1.26.x receives only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, a stable branch 1.28 will be formed based on the main branch 1.27.x. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. Changes include: […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 24.1 has taken place, built on the basis of Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro comes in live builds with graphical environments KDE (4.1 GB), GNOME (4 GB), and Xfce (3.8 GB), formed […]
Firefox 131 is now available. Linux: Support for seek and mpris:length for MPRIS has been implemented. Tab previews have been included (when hovering over an inactive tab). The icon that invokes the dropdown list of all open tabs has been changed. Furthermore, the setting allowing it to be hidden has been removed (it can be hidden by adding #alltabs-button { display: none !important; } in userChrome.css). Support for text fragments has been implemented: allows full use of links in […]
After three months of development, the release of version 4.3.0 of the cross-platform screencasting software vokoscreenNG, written in C++ using the Qt6 framework and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, has taken place. Change log: Interface: Redesigned 'magnifying glass' buttons. Fixed the alignment of the help button for the reset all settings switch. CSS has been revised for several interface elements. The text in the audio device list no longer appears pixelated. Fixed […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 131 has occurred, and updates for the previous long-term support branches — 115.16.0 and 128.3.0 have been created. The Firefox 132 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for October 29. Key innovations in Firefox 131: Implemented the ability to grant temporary permissions to websites (e.g., access to location), which expire after the tab is closed or after an hour […]