A preview release of MariaDB 11.5.0 is now available for testing. The new version includes a number of features, such as the ability to limit the size of disk temporary files and tables that are created, to extend the range of timestamps, to optimize index conditions, to allow for bulk implementation, and to observe new users and tables. In addition to that, it incorporates enhancements to the Information Schema, such as the addition of global status, queries, and additional columns. Other changes include repairing tables, deprecating and ignoring @@alter_algorithm system variables, adding features for sequences, changing default Unicode collation, and allowing parallel dump of multiple databases via mariadb-dump.
A new beta version of Proton 9.0 has been released for testing. Issues with Alan Wake, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Total War: WARHAMMER III, placeholder videos in Ultimate Marvel VS. Capcom 3, and the launch of the Epic Game Store were resolved with this release, which also made corrections to Proton 9.0's regressions.
An updated version of VKD3D-Proton, which is a fork of VKD3D and aims to integrate the entire Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan, is now available for download. Along with support for NVIDIA Reflex through VK_NV_low_latency2, the update also includes support for the D3D12 render pass API, ID3D12DeviceRemovedExtendedDataSettings stubs, VK_EXT_device_fault, VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1, and fallback for compute shader derivatives on NVIDIA Pascal and older GPUs. Furthermore, it eliminates the black screen that occurs in Atlas Fallen, disables the alpha-to-coverage feature, and corrects format feature reports for DXGI_FORMAT_UNKNOWN.
A new development release of Godot 4.3 is available for testing. The Godot Engine is a free, all-in-one, cross-platform game engine that makes it easy for you to create 2D and 3D games.
CloudNativePG versions 1.22.2 and 1.21.4 have been released. As a PostgreSQL Kubernetes Operator, CloudNativePG is responsible for orchestrating the entire life cycle of a PostgreSQL cluster. This includes everything from bootstrapping and configuration to high availability and connection routing, backups, and disaster recovery.
Both Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 and 4.2.2 RC 2 are now available. The Godot Engine is a free, all-in-one, cross-platform game engine that makes it easy for you to create 2D and 3D games.
Eric Engestrom has announced the availability of the third bugfix release for Mesa 24.0.
A new version of the AM application manager for AppImage is available. AM is an application manager that is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.
Samba 4.18.11 has been released. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
A new version of VSCodium, which is a version of Visual Studio Code that was built without any Microsoft branding or telemetry, has been released.
The release of PHP 8.3.4 has been announced by Jakub Zelenka. This version includes fixes for a number of issues, including ZTS persistent resource crashes, failing tests due to string changes in libcurl 8.6.0, DOM issues, reference access in dimensions for DOMNodeList and DOMNodeMap, fileinfo bugs, FPM issues, GD bugs, MySQLnd bugs, PDO bugs, PGSQL bugs, SPL bugs, Standard bugs, and XML bugs. These updates are intended to enhance the functionality of PHP as a whole, as well as improve performance and reduce the number of errors that occur.
The release of PHP 8.2.17, which includes a number of bug fixes and improvements across a variety of modules, was announced by Sergey Panteleev. Core fixes include ZTS persistent resource crashes on shutdown, Curl fixes failing tests due to string changes, DOM fixes reference access in dimensions for DOMNodeList and DOMNodeMap, Fileinfo fixes bug GH-13344, FPM fixes bug #75712, GD fixes bug GH-12019, MySQLnd fixes bug GH-11950, PGSQL fixes bug GH-13354, and Standard fixes typos.
The fourth release candidate of Samba 4.20 has been released for testing. The release includes several new features and changes, including a minimum MIT Krb5 version for Samba AD Domain Controller, the removal of dependency on the Perl JSON module, the extension of password access tools "samba-tool user getpassword" and "samba-tool user syncpasswords", extension of Group Managed Service account client-side features, and the addition of the Windows Search Protocol (WSP) command line client "wspsearch".
Wine Staging 9.4.1 has been released by Alistair Leslie-Hughes in order to fix a problem with the user32-rawinput-mouse patchset. This problem was the reason why the build failed on Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04, and 22.04.
GloriousEggroll has released the first version of GE-Proton 9, which is based on Proton 9 bleeding edge and the latest git versions of DXVK and VKD3D.
The graphical PostgreSQL management tool pgAdmin 4 has been updated. The updated version includes 16 bug fixes and new features.
Alistair Leslie-Hughes has announced the release of Wine Staging 9.4 based on the Wine 9.4 development release.
An announcement regarding the release of a new development release of Wine was made by Alexandre Julliard. Among the features included in this release are an upgrade to version 1.11 of vkd3d, initial support for OpenGL in the Wayland driver, support for elevating process privileges, improvements to the HID pointer, and bug fixes.
A new version of VSCodium, which is a version of Visual Studio Code that was built without any Microsoft branding or telemetry, has been released.
A new beta version of Proton 9.0 has been released for testing.
