Jollaboys, the company that acquired the assets of Jolla after its bankruptcy, has presented the release of Sailfish OS 5.0. Assemblies have been prepared for 16 devices, including Jolla C2, Sony Xperia 10, and Sony Xperia XA2. This is the first release of the platform after restructuring Jolla's business in 2023, its exit from the influence of Russian investors through bankruptcy and termination of cooperation with […]
The release of the Pi-hole 6 project has been announced, which develops a system for centralized ad blocking in local networks, eliminating the need to install blockers in browsers and on user devices. The offered scheme is relevant for combating ads on devices in home networks, such as smart TVs and media centers, as well as blocking ads in mobile applications on smartphones. Blocking […]
The release of the Integrated Development Environment Apache NetBeans 25 has been announced, which provides support for programming languages such as Java SE, Java EE, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript, Rust, and Groovy. Ready-built packages are available for Linux (snap, flatpak), Windows, and macOS. Among the proposed changes: improved navigation in the code editor's refactoring tool, preservation of the tab order for projects, and enhanced change tracking. For […]
The release of the Lutris 0.5.19 gaming platform has been announced, providing tools for easier installation, configuration, and management of games on Linux. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready-built packages are available in flatpak format. The project supports a catalog for quick search and installation of gaming applications, allowing users to launch games in Linux with a single click through a unified interface, […]
A new version of the oldest editor written in C and Lisp, Emacs 30.1, has been released! Key changes include: porting to Android; native compilation enabled by default (if the libgccjit library is available); native JSON support without the previously used libjansson library. Incompatible changes with previous versions: Tree-Sitter modes are now declared as sub-modes of non-TS modes (corrections in major-mode-remap-alist, allowing modes to be added to TS, […]
On February 22, the releases 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 of the qman console utility, designed for more convenient viewing of man pages, were announced. The utility is written in C and is distributed under the BSD 2 license. Change list: improved navigation through the table of contents; added support for compressed bzip2 man pages; added support for deprecated groff GROFF_NO_SGR sequences; added support for embedded HTTP links; added a new light RGB theme catppuccin_latte.conf; […]
The release of the SVT-AV1 3.0 library (Scalable Video Technology AV1) has been published, featuring implementations of the encoder and decoder for the AV1 video encoding format, which leverage hardware parallel processing capabilities present in modern Intel CPUs for acceleration. The project was created by Intel in partnership with Netflix to achieve a performance level suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and application in services delivering […]
The lightweight IceWM 3.7.0 window manager has been released. IceWM provides full management through keyboard shortcuts, support for virtual desktops, task panels, and application menus, with tabs available for grouping windows. The window manager can be configured via a straightforward configuration file, and theming is possible. Window grouping in the form of tabs is supported. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are available. […]
The syncspirit 0.4.0 program release has been made available, enabling users to organize automatic continuous file synchronization across multiple devices. The project addresses similar tasks as the proprietary BitTorrent Sync system. Syncspirit is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; local embedded database management system MBDX is used for storage; an actor framework is employed for event handling […]
The company System76, which develops the Linux distribution Pop!_OS, has introduced the sixth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC have been provided for testing, built on top of the alpha builds of the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution release for systems with NVIDIA (3.1 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB) GPUs. Additionally […]
Étienne Guivinie, also known as Tk-Glitch, is known for his GitHub projects wine-tkg, wine-proton-tkg, and Tk-Glitch PKGBUILDs (the latter intended for ArchLinux-based distributions). After about ten years of support, he started to complain about his health. As a result, he has been less involved in the 're-basing' of patches and accepting pull requests. Étienne states he doesn't intend to abandon the repository. However, it soon became known that he […]
Another release of Apache NetBeans has been introduced – an integrated development environment supporting programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and more. The IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. In this release: improved support for build systems Gradle, Maven, and Ant; enhanced Java support: fixed errors related to hints with the switch statement; improved autocomplete […]