Philip Rebohle has announced the release of DXVK 2.4. This new version has Direct3D 8 functionality.
Additional improvements cover bug fixes and enhancements in numerous titles, such as D3D9 fixed-function texture coordinate processing, pipeline layout compatibility difficulties, and better descriptor pool management. It also enhances the video processor's blit capabilities and compatibility with third-party mods. The update addresses hang on alt+tab, Dead Space 2 issues, Dragonshard performance issues, Fallout 4 issues, Ghostbusters Remastered, Gothic 3, Guild Wars 2, Prototype, Star Citizen, The Sims 2, Tomb Raider Legend, Red Faction Guerrila Remastered, Rise of Nations, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs 2, and enabling a 60 FPS limit for audio issues in WRC 4.
Darktable nightly build 20240710 allows you to test new features before they are officially released. It eliminates existing bugs and adds complex code, but stability may suffer. New versions may change the database structure, so use a different library. AppImage is compatible with glibc 2.35 or later releases. The *.AppImage.zsync file includes technical data.
Another update for the "AM" Application Manager, a database and solution for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux, has been released.
Bottles 51.12 have been released. Bottles is a program that lets you configure Wine environments to execute Windows applications.
The update includes minor typing changes, startup crash patches, an updated GNOME runtime, improved speed, Gamescope option arguments, bottle picker issues, and kgx Launch with terminal difficulties. It also fixes syntax warnings, misspelled media types, file filter difficulties, and adds TryExec to desktop items.
The first release candidate for Godot 3.6 is now ready for testing. Godot 3.6 is currently deemed feature complete, with various bug fixes and enhancements.
This upgrade applies solely to users of Godot 3.5 or 3.6-beta, and projects created with Godot 4.x cannot be downgraded to Godot 3. RC 1 incorporates fixes from beta 5, including scene shader regression, merge_meshes() capabilities, pause behavior with physics interpolation, 2D skinning, viewport behavior, text to voice loading too early, and a quicker editor grid.
A new version of the "AM" Application Manager, a database and solution for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux, has been released.
It has been modified with a single template for AppImages and one for other apps. The "install.am" module has been modified to remove patches and update those for individual apps that require a specific dependency. The "template.am" module has been modified so that users can select whether to use repology.org for version comparison. 78 AppImages were renamed to remove the "-appimage" suffix and align with other applications. Obsolete templates have been removed, as have many apps, as upstream developers have dropped support for portable apps in favor of other platforms. The "--launcher" option will allow you to exclude certain programs. Future editions will make greater use of AppImaGen to convert most software packages from deb to AppImage.
A new version of the popular open source video editor Kdenlive is available. Kdenlive 24.05.2 is the second maintenance release in the 24.05 series, and it fixes bugs such as incorrect document save, audio track addition, rendering with aspect ratio change, compilation issues, timeline duration issues, Windows build without DBUS, and spacer tool crashes.
A new version of VSCodium has been released. VSCodium is VS Code without MS branding and telemetry. The new version is based on the most recent version of VSCode, which is 1.91.0
GloriousEggroll has announced the release of GE-Proton9-10, with changes including updating wine, wine-mono, dxvk, proton script, vkd3d-proton, and EAC fixes, enabling d8vk by default in dxvk files.
Quickemu 4.9.6 has been released, bringing more comprehensive testing to CI, updating manuals and rules to meet Community Standards, and fixing flakes in the Nix flake.
The built-in QEMU smb server now works, and the issue with killing running virtual machines with --kill has been resolved. Windows Server no longer requires a network connection after installation, Fedora Silverblue downloads are repaired, and automatic "push any key" for Windows installs is improved. Windows 8.1, Windows 10 LTSC, and Windows Server 2012 R2 are no longer supported, as is the ncurses dependency. The updates include a monkey patch for quickemu, samba for file sharing, and a default to the e1000 network device. The modifications include a rewrite to retrieve rounded integer RAM_HOST values, updating Nix flake consistency with the quickgui flake, and adding resolve_quickemu().
A new version of the FEX-EMU, which allows the execution of x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 host, has been released. The new version has support for AVX128, allowing games to run on Arm systems.
Eric Engestrom has announced the third bugfix update for Mesa 24.1.
The change log contains fixes for a variety of bugs, including miscompilations with INT32_MIN rules, cache marker refresh, and a null pointer in llvm_mod_to_spirv. Other enhancements include deleting extra nesting sections in ci/shader-db, removing extra nesting parts from debian-build-testing, and correcting per-quad spillage. Other modifications include deleting a block promoting non-CPU-mapped bos to coherent, removing assertion in xe_gem_create(), and ignoring invalid driver configurations.
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.61. Apache 2.4.61 addresses a security problem involving source code exposure in handlers defined with AddType. This bug can cause PHP scripts to be served rather than interpreted, forcing users to upgrade.
A new version of PgBouncer, a lightweight PostgreSQL connection pooler, has been launched. PgBouncer 1.23.0 adds support for rolling restarts, user name maps for certificate and peer authentication methods, replication connections via PgBouncer, improvements to SHOW USERS output listing connections, and pool_size and server_lifetime configuration per database.
The minimum version requirement for c-ares has been raised to 1.9.0, and it now supports all address types in hba configuration. Additionally, dynamically created users can now be listed in the SHOW USERS output, and systemd restarts automatically. The update also resolves issues with large and partial startup packets.
A new version of AM, an application manager for AppImage packages, has been released. AM 6.16 includes various changes, such as removing the "jq" dependence from installation scripts, modules, and the main CLI, using new installation scripts for AppImage packages, and installing launchers by default under /usr/local/share/applications. Furthermore, the "template.am" module now includes functions for managing applications from sourceforge.net.
Jakub Zelenka has announced the release of PHP 8.3.9. PHP 8.3.9 includes bug fixes for incompatible pointer type warnings, memory leaks in xml and dom, and memory leaks in PHP-FPM, GD, Intl, MySQLnd, Opcache, PDO ODBC, PHPDBG, Soap, Sodium, Standard, and Streams.
Sergey Panteleev announced the release of PHP 8.2.21. PHP 8.2.21 has solved numerous problems, including warnings about incompatible pointer types, crashes when stack walking in the destructor of surrendered items during Generator->throw(), and an incompatible function pointer type for fclose.
The core fixes bugs GH-14315, GH-12814, GH-14387, GH-14456, GH-14549, BCMatch, BCMatch, Curl, DOM, FPM, GD, Intl, MySQLnd, Opcache, ODBC, PHPDBG, Soap, Sodium, SPL, Standard, and Streams.
Saki Takamachi announced the first alpha version of PHP 8.4.0 for testing. PHP 8.4.0 Alpha 1 includes various enhancements to BCMath, Core, Curl, Date, DOM, FPM, FTP, GD, Gettext, Hash, IMAP, Intl, and IMAP. BCMath has been enhanced with the addition of bcfloor, bcceil, and bcround, while Core now includes zend_call_stack_get support for NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Solaris, and Haiku.
The CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER constant has been deprecated, and the required libcurl version has been updated to 7.61.0. Zend's call stack size has been fixed for macOS/arm64, and FreeBSD now supports Zend Max Execution Timers. Closure names have been updated to include the parent function's name, and the randomness of uploaded file names and tempnam() files has been improved.
The pgAdmin Development Team has released pgAdmin 4, version 8.9, which includes 20 bug fixes and new features. Notable changes include: setting a theme based on OS theme preference, removing MUI makeStyles for React 18, addressing permissions issues on Debian and RHEL-8 platforms, resizable data editors not resizing beyond app window bounds, ensuring SSL certificates and identity files for server connections, fixing dark theme background issues, and addressing syntax highlighting issues. Builds for Windows and macOS are now available, as well as Python Wheel, Docker Container, RPM, DEB Package, and source code tarball.
The stable version of Apache HTTP Server 2.4.60 is now available following four release candidates. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.60 has been upgraded to address a number of security vulnerabilities. These include a potential SSRF in mod_rewrite, a crash resulting in denial of service in mod_proxy caused by a malicious request, a vulnerability in the core of Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier, a vulnerability in mod_rewrite when the first segment of substitution matches the filesystem path, a weakness with encoded question marks in backreferences, and a proxy encoding issue. Users should upgrade to version 2.4.60 to address these vulnerabilities.
