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What to Expect in GIMP 3.0: New Features Unveiled

OnOctober 5, 2024

GIMP 3.0 nears completion with a 96% progress mark on the RC1 milestone. Exciting API, GUI updates, and more revealed.

Wine 9.19 Debuts with Wayland Improvements

OnOctober 4, 2024

New Wine 9.19: Better Unicode support, Wayland improvements, and DirectPlay enhancements.

Fwupd 2.0: Major Changes and New Hardware Support

OnOctober 4, 2024

Fwupd 2.0 launches with major enhancements: drops old signing formats, adds Darwin support, and revamps device firmware management.

CachyOS October 2024 Update Brings Enhanced AMD Support

OnOctober 4, 2024

Arch-based CachyOS's October '24 update fixes AMD GPU issues, improve the KDE Wayland session, and upgrades Python and Mesa.

Incus 6.6 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

OnOctober 4, 2024

Incus 6.6 is here with enhancements for VMs, better LVM support, and new networking capabilities.

Ardour 8.8 DAW Launches with Hot-Fixes and New Features

OnOctober 3, 2024

Ardour 8.8 Digital Audio Workstation introduces new features, including track dragging, ruler changes, and powerful parallel disk I/O.

Banana Pi and OpenWrt’s One/AP-24.XY Router Board Hits the Market

OnOctober 3, 2024

The first official OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY router board goes on sale, featuring MediaTek's latest SoC with WiFi 6 for enhanced connectivity, priced at $111.