Topic: App Updates

Reporting on the latest Linux software releases, app updates and command-line tooling – new features, performance improvements and critical bug fixes for scores of popular Linux applications you can run on Ubuntu.

Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (nicer) Qt interface

Audacity 4’s first public beta arrived this month with the biggest design change the iconic open-source audio editor has seen in decades. The audio editor’s interface, built on wxWidgets since the project began, now runs […]

17 June 2026

Firefox 152 debuts with new-look Settings, odd way to mute tabs

Mozilla has released Firefox 152 with revamped Settings and faster ways to share web content – plus, a peculiar way to mute noisy tabs. The update is available from today (15 June, 2026) on Windows, […]

16 June 2026
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HandBrake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, WebM on Linux

A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and […]

7 June 2026

Linux App Release Roundup (May 2026)

May 2026 delivered a sizeable set of Linux software updates, including the set I’ve rounded up for your reading pleasure in this post.  The month also saw a buffet of big browser updates, including Firefox 151 with […]

31 May 2026
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ONLYOFFICE 9.4 is out with a stricter FOSS licence

A new version of ONLYOFFICE, the open-source productivity suite, is out with a small set of improvements. The new release lands a couple of months after ONLYOFFICE suspended its eight-year Nextcloud partnership over Euro-Office, a […]

22 May 2026
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Vivaldi 8.0 released with ‘biggest design overhaul, ever’

A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. The browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, […]

21 May 2026

Firefox 151: New Tab design changes, PDF merging + more

The new tab page has a (slightly) new look and a new name in Firefox 151, the newest version of Mozilla’s famous open-source web browser that begins roll out today, May 19, 2026. Now called […]

19 May 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 support added to VMware Workstation Pro

VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, letting you install Broadcom's free virtual machine software on the distro and run it in a VM.

17 May 2026

BleachBit’s new TUI makes it perfect for headless servers

Open-source cleaning tool BleachBit has gained a text-based user interface (TUI) as an optional alternative to its standard graphical frontend. Unlike BleachBit’s existing CLI, which is intended for non-interactive use in scripts, the TUI is […]

14 May 2026

Orion for Linux adds a content blocker and download manager

A new beta build of Orion for Linux is available, with the v0.3 update ready for ‘broader, real-world use and feedback’, according to Kagi, the company behind it. Orion for Linux is a native GTK4/libadwaita […]

5 May 2026

Linux App Release Roundup (April 2026)

April 2026 has been and gone, but not before delivering an array of Linux software updates, including new versions of popular FOSS video editor Kdenlive and Oracle’s virtualisation offering VirtualBox. We also got Firefox 150 […]

1 May 2026
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Firefox 150 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more

Firefox 150 brings enhanced Split View features, multi-tab sharing and a crop of PDF editor improvements. Split View debuted in Firefox 149 last month, letting you easily view two web-pages side-by-side in a single tab […]

20 April 2026