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Mozilla is developing Thunderbird Pro and the Thundermail service in the style of Gmail and Office365

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Ryan Sipes, Director of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation overseeing the development of the Thunderbird email client, has presented plans for new services aimed at expanding Thunderbird's usage capabilities. It is noted that Thunderbird is steadily losing users, remaining solely a client solution, as users increasingly prefer ecosystems that offer both email clients and services, such as […]

Release of the Qt 6.9 Framework

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Qt Company has released the Qt 6.9 framework, continuing efforts to stabilize and expand the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.9 provides support for Windows 10+, macOS 12+, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, openSUSE 15.5, SUSE 15 SP5, RHEL 8.10/9.4, Debian 11.6), iOS 16+, Android 9+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, and QNX. The source […]

Release of the Betterbird email client 128.9.0, a fork of Thunderbird

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The release of the Betterbird email client, a soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, developed by the community and based on Mozilla Firefox technologies, has been announced. Betterbird 128.9 is built on the codebase of the long-term support branch Thunderbird 128.9.0 ESR, with updates released throughout the year. Installation packages for Windows and macOS, as well as binary builds for Linux, are available for download. Support for […]

The release of Rockbox 4.0, an open-source firmware for audio players.

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After five and a half years of development, the Rockbox 4.0 project has been released, which develops alternative firmware for various models of audio players. Compared to stock firmware, Rockbox provides support for additional formats, features, and plugins. The project is not based on Linux and comes with its own POSIX-compatible kernel. The code is written in C and distributed under the GPL license. Rockbox can be […]

Release of GoboLinux 017.01 distribution with its own file system hierarchy

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The release of the GoboLinux 017.01 distribution has been presented, in which a stack-based directory organization is used instead of the traditional hierarchy common in Unix systems, where each program is installed in a separate directory. The size of the installation image with support for booting in Live mode is 2.3 GB (x86_64). The root of the file system in GoboLinux contains the directories "/Programs", "/Users", "/System", "/Files", "/Mount", and "/Depot". Each application's directory […]

The second pre-release of the Pidgin 3.0 messenger has been released.

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The second experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.91) instant messaging client has been presented, allowing users to work simultaneously across multiple networks with different protocols and switch between chats using tabs. This release is marked as having a quality level of a preliminary alpha version, not intended for everyday use. The builds are prepared in Flatpak format (currently only the source code archive is available). The Pidgin 3 branch […]

Release of Firefox 137 with tab grouping support

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The release of the Firefox 137 web browser has occurred, along with updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.22.0 and 128.9.0. The Firefox 138 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for April 29. Key innovations in Firefox 137 include the addition of tab grouping support, allowing users to combine multiple tabs and collapse them into one button, so they do not take up space […]

Significant optimizations to the network subsystem and exFAT have been accepted in the Linux kernel 6.15.

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The Linux kernel codebase, on which the 6.15 release is based, has accepted a set of changes with optimizations that significantly enhance the performance of network operations in various situations: The optimization of GRO (Generic Receive Offload), which combines several small packets into one large packet, is now utilized when switching packet processing to another CPU (for load balancing) while using the XDP (eXpress Data […]

The code base of the Linux kernel, which serves as the foundation for version 6.15, has incorporated a set of changes aimed at optimizations that significantly enhance the performance of network operations:.

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The release of the Restic 0.18 backup system has been introduced, allowing for encrypted backups to be stored in a versioned repository with support for deduplication. The system is primarily designed for backups to be saved in untrusted environments, ensuring that possession of a backup does not compromise the system. When creating a backup, flexible rules can be defined for inclusion […]

The developers of OrioleDB proposed improvements to the API for alternative PostgreSQL engines.

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The developers of OrioleDB have analyzed the current state of the low-level API used for extensions to access tables and indexes in PostgreSQL (Table/Index Access Method (AM) API) and proposed ways to improve it. Since this API was introduced in PostgreSQL 12, developers have been able to create alternative data storage mechanisms. However, despite the availability of this API and the known limitations of the built-in storage mechanism, […]

Zulip 10 messaging platform is now available.

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The release of Zulip 10 has been announced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for organizing communication among employees and developer teams. The project was originally developed by Zulip and made open-source after being acquired by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server side is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]

Release of the CachyOS 250330 distribution, providing the kernel with additional optimizations.

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The release of the CachyOS 250330 distribution has been announced, based on the package base of Arch Linux and utilizing a continuous delivery model for updates. This distribution is notable for including optimizations to enhance performance and providing the option to install various desktop environments. In addition to a base environment based on KDE, the installation options include GNOME, Xfce, i3WM, Wayfire, LXQT, OpenBox, Cinnamon, Cosmic, UKUI, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland […]

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