Wine 9.18 has been released and includes a new Media Foundation backend based on FFMpeg, initial support for network sessions in DirectPlay, a new Desktop Control Panel applet, and several bug improvements.
AMD released a new version of its compute platform, ROCm, which includes significant new capabilities and improvements. The most significant version change is the increase in the rocAL version number from 1.3 to 2.0, which necessitates the recompilation of applications that were linked to version 1.3. ROCm now supports Facebook General Matrix Multiplication (FBGEMM) and its associated FBGEMM_GPU library. New improvements in ROCm Offline Installer Creator 6.2.1 include logging support, more strict checks for Linux versions and distributions, updated necessary repositories, and fixes to CTest problems.
The second hot fix release of Heroic Games Launcher 2.15 is now available.
pg_stat_kcache is an extension for the PostgreSQL database server, providing real reads and writes statistics. It requires the pg_stat_statements extension and requires PostgreSQL 9.4 or more. New features include track entry creation timestamp, bug fixes, and PostgreSQL 17 compatibility.
Valve Software has released Proton 9.0-3, which includes support for numerous new games and fixes for a variety of bugs. These include the playability of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!, Banyu Lintar Angin, Dinner with an Owl, Farlight 84, Flatout 3, KinitoPET, Owl Observatory Demo, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Super, Sword of Convallaria, Syberia, THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION, To Pixelia Demo, Unity of Command II, and Zaccaria Pinball.
The update also fixes regressions in Alan Wake's American Nightmare DLC, Bionic Commando, GRID Autosport, and GRID II. The game also improves language compatibility for Guild Wars 2, adds controller support to Fallout 3 launchers, and addresses cutscene playback difficulties in Iragon games. The update also addresses license agreement difficulties and crashes in games such as Dinogen Online, SCP Secret Laboratory, Burnout Paradise Remastered, and The Finals.
Audacity 3.6.4 is a patch version that fixes two issues: a crash while closing Audacity and projects not being compact when closed.
Apache NetBeans IDE 23 has been launched, with various enhancements to enhance the user experience. These include updates to Gradle, Maven, the stack trace parser, Maven version settings, and other features.
The editor has been changed to allow focus events to propagate before performing glyph gutter actions, and the Docker-Load images issue has been resolved. The UI has been modified to sharpen the status bar notification bubble on HiDPI/Retina screens, provide a border to fast search boxes in Outline and TreeView components, and avoid using ImageIcon in more places to maintain HiDPI icon resolution.
The editor has been changed to allow focus events to propagate before performing glyph gutter actions, and the Docker-Load images issue has been resolved. The UI has been modified to sharpen the status bar notification bubble on HiDPI/Retina screens, provide a border to fast search boxes in Outline and TreeView components, and avoid using ImageIcon in more places to maintain HiDPI icon resolution.
The Mesa bugfix release 24.2.3 is now available, with the next release coming in two weeks on October 2nd. Change logs address several issues, including lowering VM bind operations, correcting shellcheck failures, encoding both sps and pps in the same buffer, and fixing radeon_enc_code_ue with values exceeding 2^16. Other enhancements include the addition of the megadriver_libdir argument, the inclusion of the va driver in libgallium when building with dri, and the disabling of EFC on VCN 2.2.
Samba 4.20.5 is the latest stable release in the Samba 4.20 series. It addresses issues such as "inherit permissions = yes" triggers, inaccurate FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES responses, samba-tool importing the default configuration file, and confusion over compound SMB2 queries. Additionally, new vfs_ceph modules have been introduced, and readlinkat crashes have been resolved.
The "AM" 8.2.1 minor release resolves a distracting issue created by the addition of colors to some lists, allowing users without the "less" command to combine options -a, -f, -h, -l, and -q with other commands that do not utilize colors or ASCII characters. Other changes include fixing a bug with the "downgrade" option, fixing a bug in "-l" that did not display the number of available AppImages in the list, viewing the list of available AppImages using the relative catalog page in Markdown format, and introducing support for "appimageupdatetool" to get delta updates in AppImages. The catalog now contains 2260 unique apps, separated into 2013 Appimages and 247 standalone/portable packages.
Darktable's Nightly Build 20240914 allows you to test new features before they are officially released. It removes existing bugs and introduces sophisticated code, but stability may suffer. Newer versions may alter the database structure, thus use an alternative library. AppImage is compatible with glibc 2.35 and subsequent releases. The *.AppImage.zsync file contains technical data.
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 1.93.1.
VirtualBox 7.1.0 is a significant release that adds new features like a redesigned GUI, OCI integration, and NAT support. The GUI distinguishes between Basic and Experienced user levels, and OCI integration displays resource use for cloud VMs. The Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack has been updated to include the PUEL license, and VRDE is enabled using self-signed certificates.
The new engine has IPv6 functionality, and the macOS/Arm host is virtualized for Linux and BSD VMs. Other enhancements include Wayland support for clipboard sharing, shared clipboard support, and improved screen recording efficiency. Other enhancements include updates for EFLAGS.TF handling, virtualization of FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0, and the Oracle Extension Pack.
The release candidate for PHP 8.2.24 is now available for testing. This update brings a bunch of bug fixes, addressing various issues like zend_max_execution_timer, genif.sh, CRC32 API build error, and uninitialized lineno in constant AST of internal enums.
The second development release of Godot 4.4 is out. The release comes packed with over 350 improvements, including a bunch of bug fixes that will make their way to Godot 4.3 and be released in 4.3.1.
PHP 8.4.0 beta 5 has been released with a bunch of changes. It includes fixes for BCMath, core, DOM, GD, hash, OpenSSL, PDO, PDO_Firebird, Reflection, SOAP, Standard, and Streams.
PHP 8.3.12 RC1 has been released for testing with a bunch of bug fixes that address various issues in the core, DOM, fileinfo, MySQLnd, Opcache, and Streams. These fixes tackle a range of issues, from MSan false-positives to configure errors and build errors. There's even an uninitialized lineno in constant AST of internal enums. The release also fixes the problem with php_stream_memory_get_buffer() not being zero-terminated.
QEMU version 9.1.0 has been released. This update is packed with over 2800 commits from 263 authors. Get ready for some exciting improvements, including compression offload support, VIRTIO_F_NOTIFICATION_DATA support, improved ARM emulation, and more.
The final version of Godot 3.6 has been released after two years of development, brings a plethora of exciting features and quality of life improvements. You'll find 2D physics interpolation, hierarchical culling, 3D mesh merging, level of detail, tighter shadow culling, and ORM materials to make your game development experience even more enjoyable. Even with a strong emphasis on 4.x releases, Godot 3 has evolved into a reliable and robust codebase that is perfect for developing on low-end hardware.
Audacity 3.6.3 has just been released, and it's here to fix a little bug that was causing some trouble. You see, there was this pesky crash that would happen when you tried to exit Audacity. But fear not, this bug has been squashed, and now you can exit Audacity without any worries.
