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OnlyOffice Desktop Editor, the free open-source offline use office suite, release new 9.1 version yesterday.
The new release updated the PDF editing support with new tools, and improved formulas in sheets. It now automatically recover unsaved documents due to app crashes.
Zorin OS finally announced new major version 18 for beginners switching from Windows or macOS!
Zorin OS is a beginner friendly Linux Distribution. It’s based on Ubuntu LTS and features a customized GNOME desktop experience, while a lite version is available for choice with XFCE4 desktop.
For Linux Mint users who prefer Debian package base, LMDE 7 code-name “Gigi”, is officially released!
LMDE stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition. As the name says, it’s a Linux Mint edition based on Debian, aims to continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear.
Firefox 144.0, the October release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download today!
The new browser release continues improving the tab group feature support. It now supports dragging a tab into a collapsed tab group without automatically expanding it.
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A new monthly version of Microsoft’s code editor, Visual Studio Code 1.105, was released few days ago.
The release added 2 new AI chat models, GPT-5-Codex and Claude Sonnet 4.5. In addition to Google and Github account, it now allows to sign in or sign up GitHub Copilot with an Apple account, along with
Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, was officially released today!
This is a new short term release with 9 months support until July 2026. New features include the latest Linux Kernel 6.17, GNOME Desktop 49, and more.
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Python announced the new 3.14 version yesterday! See what’s new and how to install guide for Ubuntu users.
Python 3.14 is the latest stable release of the Python programming language, with 5 years support until 2030.
Since the release, the free-threaded build of Python is officially supported and no longer experimental. It’s so far optional, though will be make default in next phase.
GIMP 3.0.6, the third maintenance update for 3.0 release series, is out today!
The new GIMP release fixed various bugs and regressions, improved flatpak support, added security updates, and back-ported some changes from the 3.1.2 and 3.1.4 DEV releases.
For Linux users with NVIDIA graphics card, the new 580 production branch driver got a new update few days ago!
It’s NVIDIA 580.95.05, the third stable release in this driver series. Like the last one, it introduced only one but important new feature, and fixed few bugs.
Linux 6.17 is out as the latest Kernel release! Linus Torvalds announced it yesterday afternoon in lkml.org:
No huge surprises this past week, so here we are, with kernel 6.17 pushed out and ready to go.
Below is the shortlog for just the last week – not the full 6.17 release – as usual. It’s not exciting, which is all good. I think the biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth races that could cause use-after-free situations. Whee – that’s about as exciting as it gets.
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