Eric Engestrom has announced that the first release candidate for Mesa 24.2.0 is now available for testing.
A new update for the "AM" Application Manager, a database and solution for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux, has been released. The update improves local script installation, fixes a bug, and adds new criteria for distinguishing between local and online scripts. It also includes a new environment variable for identifying working directories, additional functions in the "install.am" module, and improved development of installation scripts for apps published on random websites.
Mesa version 24.1.4 has been released. Several changes have been made to the graphical user interface (GUI). These updates include changing the "Windows" check to utilize the host machine instead of the 'platforms' option, making cs writeable for GMEM loads when FDM is enabled, adjusting the size of the fdm_apply_load_coords patchpoint, and correcting the offset for the MPR row store scratch buffer.
Other modifications include reapplying "radeonsi/vcn: AV1 skip the superfluous bs resize" and adding a missing stride setup to renderer_draw_yuv. Other modifications include separating binary parsing into its own function, preventing the binary API from crashing on errors, upgrading the binary format, hardening bound checks against overflows, and completely reworking how mapping is performed. The log includes patches for memory leaks.
The Apache Software Foundation and Apache HTTP Server Project have released version 2.4.62 of Apache HTTP Server. This update has fixed a CVE-2024-39884 issue, allowing source code disclosure of local content when files are requested indirectly. Additionally, a SSRF issue in Apache HTTP Server on Windows with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context on Windows has been fixed, potentially allowing NTML hashes to be leaked to malicious servers.
Darktable 4.8.1 is now available on Github, containing 93 commits to darktable+rawspeed, 26 pull requests, and one resolved issue.
A new version of Audacity is available. Audacity 3.6.0 now includes master effects, a new compressor and limiter, and enhanced dark and light themes. Vladislav Isaev and Marek Iwaszkiewicz offered the updated factory presets.
Audacity is significantly more efficient, particularly with larger projects and screens. Other enhancements include FFmpeg 7 compatibility, the ability to paste audio files, and the option to theme alternate waveform colors. The "what is new" dialog box has been revamped, and the View menu now displays/hides RMS in waveforms. OpenVINO AI effects can now be obtained at audacityteam.org/download/openvino. Bug fixes include scrolling back to view after recording to a new track, removing parameterless operations from the macro manager, and correcting stray orange lines in the high contrast theme.
VirtualBox 7.0.20 is a maintenance release that fixes and adds several features, including TPM errors, macOS hosts, audio recording, USB deadlocks, initial support for OpenSuse 15.6 and RHEL 9.5 kernels, guest additions such as shared clipboard issues, and UEFI Secure Boot with new Microsoft certificates for new virtual machines.
Calvin Buckley has announced the release of the second alpha version of PHP 8.4.0 for testing.
Pierrick Charron has announced the release of the first release candidate for PHP 8.2.22.
Eric Mann has announced the release of the first release candidate for PHP 8.3.10.
The release candidate for Apache webserver 2.4.62 is now ready for testing. Apache 2.4.62 addresses canonicalization, FCGI env, AH01059 parsing issue, PKCS#11 ENGINE support with OpenSSL 3.2, support for loading certs/keys from pkcs11: URIs via OpenSSL 3.x providers, restore SSL dumping on trace7 loglevel with OpenSSL >= 3.0, and mpm_worker.
Wine Staging 9.13 has been released. The change log contains a rebase against Wine 9.13, the addition of the odbc32-fixes patchset, updates to the vkd3d-latest and gdi32-rotation patchsets.
Alexandre Julliard announced the release of Wine development version 9.13. This version adds support for ODBC Windows drivers, expands user32 data structures in shared memory, rewrites the CMD.EXE engine, and repairs bugs.
OBS Studio 30.2 has been released with new features and bug fixes to improve the game capture experience. These include support for Multitrack Video streaming, Enhanced Broadcasting, and the Hybrid MP4 output format (BETA). The project also added Linux support to the native NVENC encoder, NVENC AV1, as well as Linux shared texture support to the NVENC encoder, QuickSync encoder, VA-API encoder, and HEVC support for WebRTC output.
Bug fixes have been made to address issues with audio channel layouts, native FLV muxer, RTMP protocol implementation, FFmpeg output, auto-config wizard, text alignment, encoder properties with nested scroll areas in output settings, crashes when input video resolution changes when using hardware-accelerated decoding, button text being cut off in controls dock, undo action for filters showing UUID instead of name,
Bug fixes have been made to address issues with audio channel layouts, native FLV muxer, RTMP protocol implementation, FFmpeg output, auto-config wizard, text alignment, encoder properties with nested scroll areas in output settings, crashes when input video resolution changes when using hardware-accelerated decoding, button text being cut off in controls dock, undo action for filters showing UUID instead of name,
The Zed editor is now officially available for Linux. Zed is a high-performance, GPU accelerated, multiplayer code editor created by the same people who made Atom and Tree-Sitter.
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 1.91.1.
Another update for the "AM" Application Manager, a database and solution for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux, has been released.
The third beta version of Godot 4.3 is now ready for testing. The Godot project has handled the majority of the issues that were considered blockers for the 4.3 release, with a few exceptions for regressions. The project is close to reaching the release candidate stage, which will most likely begin next week.
A new bugfix release of Bottles is available. Bottles is a program that lets you configure Wine environments to execute Windows applications.
Another update for the "AM" Application Manager, a database and solution for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux, has been released.
