COSMIC Desktop 1.5 Improves Chromium Scaling and Wallpaper Management
System76 releases COSMIC Desktop 1.5 with fixes for Chromium app scaling, excessive panel CPU usage, GPU resets, and external displays.
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GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code
The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.
Fooyin 0.12 Music Player Adds Audio Conversion and New Visualizations
Fooyin 0.12 introduces built-in audio conversion, PulseAudio output support, and new Spectrogram, Oscilloscope, and projectM visualizations.
Wayfire 0.11 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR and Better Fractional Scaling
Wayfire 0.11 introduces sharper fractional scaling, experimental HDR, ICC color profiles, expanded Vulkan effects, and a new external plugin manager.
Hyprland 0.56.1 Released with Monitor Rotation and Mirroring Fixes
Hyprland 0.56.1 is a maintenance update addressing monitor regressions, window-rule leaks, input capture, rendering, and more.
Fwupd 2.1.7 Released with New Firmware Security Features
The Linux firmware update utility fwupd 2.1.7 introduces systemd-pcrlock integration, new security attributes, and multiple reliability fixes.
GNU Binutils 2.47 Released with New RISC-V Improvements
The GNU Project has released Binutils 2.47, updating its essential assembler, linker, and binary-file manipulation tools with new architecture support and other enhancements.
Collabora Online 26.04 Office Suite Released with Optional AI Assistant
Collabora Online 26.04 is now available with an optional AI assistant, Markdown support, improved document review, and new Calc features.
FireDragon v13 Released as a Complete Rewrite of Garuda Linux’s Browser
Garuda Linux has released FireDragon v13, a full reimplementation of its privacy-focused Firefox-based browser with new search, privacy, and performance controls.
JOPDF Offers Linux Users Free, Full-Featured PDF Editing
JOPDF is a cross-platform PDF editor that lets Linux users edit text and images, annotate, convert, compress, and manage PDF files for free.